Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

Luganville: 39 fighters shoot down one rousy balsa wood Heren. That rearry crappy.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Luganville at 120,150

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 5 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 4



Allied aircraft
P-36A Mohawk x 15
P-39D Airacobra x 18
P-40B Warhawk x 6


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
xAK Maliko

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

South of Dadjangas: I don't know what this was. Evac convoy from Davao or Borneo? Bushido overdose? The SBD's from Cagayan and Cotobato eat them up. About 50% hit rate.

Big burries. [:-]

And we strafed the guys in the lifeboats too. [:'(] Nobody wants to face the same crazy SOB's on Iwo Jima.

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Luganville: 39 fighters shoot down one rousy balsa wood Heren. That rearry crappy.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Luganville at 120,150

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 5 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 4



Allied aircraft
P-36A Mohawk x 15
P-39D Airacobra x 18
P-40B Warhawk x 6


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
xAK Maliko

As you know .. the Combat report does not account for aircraft not making it back .. plus .. I see no attacks on the Maliko [;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Probably at least 4 weeks until Yorktown is fully repaired and up to Darwin. It would be crazy to take on two LYB carriers with Wasp. Just as well, all the ground troops for the Northern Luzon need abut 40 more days of prep.

Tentative additions to plan.

1) Take some isrands on Eastern shore of Luzon to suggest approach there.

2) Land at Legaspi about a week before the Northern Luzon landing to draws JJ forces southward. They might have to be "fungible" though.

3) Probable landing at Batan Is (North of Luzon) at same time of main Luzon landing.

Time now for advance by airdrop/fast transport taffy/landing craft...and for consolidation/buildup of airfields....and for capture of Manado.

[Cap Mandrake]

Also, it now appears the Ramree Is op will go in ahead of the Northern Luzon landings. I guess it depends on Vicky. She must be an awesome typist..or have really nice legs.

Good, maybe JJ will move some of their **** over there. [:)]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Probably at least 4 weeks until Yorktown is fully repaired and up to Darwin. It would be crazy to take on two LYB carriers with Wasp. Just as well, all the ground troops for the Northern Luzon need abut 40 more days of prep.

Tentative additions to plan.

1) Take some isrands on Eastern shore of Luzon to suggest approach there.

2) Land at Legaspi about a week before the Northern Luzon landing to draws JJ forces southward. They might have to be "fungible" though.

3) Probable landing at Batan Is (North of Luzon) at same time of main Luzon landing.

Time now for advance by airdrop/fast transport taffy/landing craft...and for consolidation/buildup of airfields....and for capture of Manado.

Dude...you'd better reconsider the pace of this ground assault. Considering the small 'bitsa' units you're throwing at these islands (RCT or smaller). What ever happened to consolidating forward advances? Interior lines? "Striking emptyness with fullness" and other Sun Tzu mythical claptrap?

I think you're doing a fine job of bringing the fight to the enemy. Avoid overextension.

[sprior]

She must be an awesome typist..or have really nice legs.

Why not both?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

She must be an awesome typist..or have really nice legs.

Why not both?

There is absolutely NOTHING worse than an "Ankle hollow"

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Probably at least 4 weeks until Yorktown is fully repaired and up to Darwin. It would be crazy to take on two LYB carriers with Wasp. Just as well, all the ground troops for the Northern Luzon need abut 40 more days of prep.

Tentative additions to plan.

1) Take some isrands on Eastern shore of Luzon to suggest approach there.

2) Land at Legaspi about a week before the Northern Luzon landing to draws JJ forces southward. They might have to be "fungible" though.

3) Probable landing at Batan Is (North of Luzon) at same time of main Luzon landing.

Time now for advance by airdrop/fast transport taffy/landing craft...and for consolidation/buildup of airfields....and for capture of Manado.

Dude...you'd better reconsider the pace of this ground assault. Considering the small 'bitsa' units you're throwing at these islands (RCT or smaller). What ever happened to consolidating forward advances? Interior lines? "Striking emptyness with fullness" and other Sun Tzu mythical claptrap?

I think you're doing a fine job of bringing the fight to the enemy. Avoid overextension.

Sun Tzu was a sissy boy.


Well, that's what I heard. Hard to have "interior lines" in the PI...rotsa watah. We are going to exterminate the Shinto Boys on Mindanao if they don't give up..which they won't. Manado is a real pain in the arse and needs to be lanced, no doubt about that. Kendari and Ambon and Dobo and the future walking dead at Broome and Port Hedrand can slowly starve.

Landing on Northern Luzon is penciled for 3 divisions (1st Marine, British 2nd and Aus 7th plus arty and armor). There will lots of ponies and wagons and camp followers. US 45th ID should have captured Manado by then and can reconstitute. They and regimetns of 2nd Marine will constitute strategic reserve.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

She must be an awesome typist..or have really nice legs.

Why not both?

There is absolutely NOTHING worse than an "Ankle hollow"

Are you also advocating, as a physician, 'rubbing off your horny spots'? With pumice?

[LST Express]

My God I Caught up on this AAR again and learnt about bung hole bleaching to boot![:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: LST Express

My God I Caught up on this AAR again and learnt about bung hole bleaching to boot![:D]

Well, there are certain key cultural prerequisites that one must have to be able to carry on an erudite converstation at a dinner party...Homer, the Greek mythologies, Beowulf, Milton, Chaucer, Shakespeare, the romantic poets, Joyce, Faulkner.....bunghole bleaching.*





*Editor's Note: We believe the most frequent modern use of "bunghole" is as one word, although there is some debate on this matter.

[Crackaces]

Hmmm Bleaching implies Oxidizing .. NaClO is one of the more effective bleaching agents .... now I thought the general conversation at the typcial dinner party in regards to life and longevity is avoiding reactive oxygen species [ROS] and bragging how one is avoiding ROS [namely those subtances that have one or more unpaired electrons] and is more healthy than the next guy . Where am I going wrong? What happends if the bunghole bleachers strike up a conversation with the ROS crowd? Is this like the next coming of the 30 years war?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


Landing on Northern Luzon is penciled for 3 divisions (1st Marine, British 2nd and Aus 7th plus arty and armor). There will lots of ponies and wagons and camp followers. US 45th ID should have captured Manado by then and can reconstitute. They and regimetns of 2nd Marine will constitute strategic reserve.

Forget the camp followers. Tell the troops about the bars at Manila and Subic Bay and they will have the incentive they need to take them quickly ... unless Milo has the contract for the bar 'services' already.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Crackaces
What happends if the bunghole bleachers strike up a conversation with the ROS crowd? Is this like the next coming of the 30 years war?

To be invited to the very highest strata of dinner parties one is expected to be so bereft of pigment as to not need bunghole bleaching. In that case one mocks the bleaching crowd.

[Cap Mandrake]

*****************************Madras, March 11, 1943(c)*********************

Troops preparing for the Ramri Island operation try out their new cammos.

[Cap Mandrake]

*******************His Majesty's Provisional Combined Training Command, Madras*******************


Sentry: Halt, do you have papers?

Lead lorry driver followed by 52 other trucks, all carryig Port-a-potties: No mate. The paper is in the loos.

[LST Express]

So the worlds worst aar is-

a)picked up by the military for instructional purposes
b)looked at by Hollywood as another bad movie idea
c)taken and ran with by some wacked out dude with a grudge
d)both b and c

[:D][:D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: LST Express

So the worlds worst aar is-

a)picked up by the military for instructional purposes
b)looked at by Hollywood as another bad movie idea
c)taken and ran with by some wacked out dude with a grudge
d)both b and c

[:D][:D]

Bad movie idea? If Catch 22 was a hit, why not M&M's War?

[dcpollay]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Influenza has arrived in California. I just throw my clothes in the fireplace when I get home, well most of them. Genetech, which makes Tamiflu, failed to make enough of the suspension for children this year. There is no generic. Their drug is vastly superior to the old stuff, it's quite expensive and people will sell their government supplied flat screens of stolen I-phones to get it but the pharmacies dont have enough avialable. Evidently Genentech have (note cool but erroneous Engrish use of 3rd person plural verb conjugation) some problem with making money.

What they need is a suppry officer.

On the plus side, this should be an effective method of getting rid of your extra underwear problem.