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

[sprior]

frantically looking for the DOS 3.0 installation floppy discs

That's because everyone knows that Edlin is the best way to edit the autoexec.bat

[Cap Mandrake]

Burma: JJ puts an LRCAP over 4th Guards in the jungle.

Morning Air attack on 4th Guards Division, at 59,43 , near Kalemyo

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 7
Vengeance I x 46


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed
Vengeance I: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

And then a second attack that gets broken up by the Tojos.

Morning Air attack on 4th Guards Division, at 59,43 , near Kalemyo

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 8



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 4
Vengeance I x 16
P-40E Warhawk x 12


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

And then a 3rd attack with no escort. Somebody needs a new watch or a compass or something.

Morning Air attack on 4th Guards Division, at 59,43 , near Kalemyo

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3



Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 16


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 5 damaged

Attack on Mandaray. The Helens could hit our shipping when it arrives off Ramree. The Tojos beat up the Wellingtons.

Morning Air attack on Mandalay , at 59,46

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 16



Allied aircraft
Liberator II x 20
Wellington Ic x 9
Wellington GR.VIII x 10


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator II: 2 damaged
Wellington Ic: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Wellington GR.VIII: 5 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 22

Then Tenth Air Force B-24D's in thw afternoon.

Afternoon Air attack on Mandalay , at 59,46

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 8
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 20



Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 2

B-25's attack 4th Guards with some success

Afternoon Air attack on 4th Guards Division, at 59,43 , near Kalemyo

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 11
P-40E Warhawk x 12


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

frantically looking for the DOS 3.0 installation floppy discs

That's because everyone knows that Edlin is the best way to edit the autoexec.bat

Not these guys who are about to be incinerated. They are anxious.

[Cap Mandrake]

You guys aren't going to believe the size of the Burma invasion force. [:)] It makes Overlord look like the Dieppe raid....and Overlord hasn't even happened yet.

Evidently, we are to be treated to a nearly simultaneous attack on Port Blair. I suspect the Jats are going in first at Ramree.

14th Murray's head to the transports.

[Cap Mandrake]

ALSP...I sent 6 more Wildcats to the CVE fighter groups and back-converted another squadrons of B-24D's at Darwin If they show up in time, take them as replacements.I think we are out of B-25's and P-40K's for a bit.

[sprior]

Somebody needs a new watch or a compass or something

Some bastard glued the P-38s to the ground.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Somebody needs a new watch or a compass or something

Some bastard glued the P-38s to the ground.

[X(] <silently says Hail Mary..well the part I can remember..... in case it was me when I added replacement P-38's about a week ago>

[Justus2]

ORIGINAL: sanch

ORIGINAL: sprior

didn't unplug the power supply

Gen dit:

IT Manager: This server keeps crashing every night between 6 and 6.30 pm. Find out what's going on.

After exhaustive diagmostics I decide the easiest thing to do is sit and watch it

6.15pm.

Cleaner: Don't mind me love, just going to plug in the hoover. <click!>
Me: Er....

Years ago, back when mainframes were multiple boxes the size of refrigerators, a server was crashing almost every night in the wee hours.

After extensive diagnosis, found the crashes due to zillions of interrupts on one particular signal overwhelming the server.

Got hardware guys involved - that particular signal comes from a particular cable, so they go to inspect the cable.

They find at one point it wrapped around a 220V HVAC cable going to the rooftop A/C units.

And SOP was for the third shift operators to run the A/C to recycle air in the computer rooms.

So I went and watched. They turned the A/C on, and within a second, server was down.

Move cables, problem solved.

Had a similar situation with a customer in Orange County CA back in late 80s, when I worked for a computer rental company. One of our clients was complaining about a bank of monitors that worked fine during the day, but were all fuzzy/squigly when they started holding night classes. Sent a couple of replacement monitors over, and finally went out on a service call. Realized that the wall they were all lined up against held the power conduit for the outdoor lighting (which only kicked in at night). Moved them to another wall. One of my assistants wanted to tell them that these were solar-powered monitors, and try to sell an upgrade...

[sprior]

Meanwhile somewhere in Burma at the P-38 pilots briefing room:

CO: Always treat your kite like you treat your woman.

Pilot: How do you mean, sir, take her at home on weekends to meet your mother?

CO: No. I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back!!

[CT Grognard]

WOOOF WOOOF!!!

[sprior]

Who said boardgames can't be fun?

[Walloc]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Somebody needs a new watch or a compass or something

Some bastard glued the P-38s to the ground.

I toke a peek at the autoexe.bat that is used in the secret WWII Dos flight computers in ur P-38.

@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
PATH C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\MATRIXGAMES\WITPAE\SOWRONG
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
LH SMARTDRV.EXE
LH DOSKEY
LH MOUSE.COM /Y


Clearly they forgot u can steer a P-38 with a yet to be invented mouse. Alarmingly they havent set the sound card line, that the joystick is attached to so its all FUBAR.
For ur pleasure the missing line.

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2

[sprior]

You forgot the CD driver

DEVICEHIGH=C:\MTMCDAI.SYS /D:123

[Walloc]

Sorry that u will hafta look in the config.sys for that, read that manual says Simon! [:'(]

Rasmus

[Cap Mandrake]

Sunday morning and no turn. [:(]


ALSP...that taffy with 9 RAAF base force following the Port Blair folks is transport loaded.

Also this. Seems like any follow-on forces that don't need to be prepped for Ramree can switch planning to secondary objectives...like the Tit Pagoda[:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

The other day I heard Ban Ki Moon (UN Sec Gen) making a statement in Engrish over the death of Hugo

"United Nations wish to express sincere condorances to famiries and people of Venezuera"

I nearly ran off the road. It is just endless, cheap entertainment for me.

I realize he is Korean but he would make a good Ito-san if it weren't for the pencil neck.

http://www.engrish.com/

[Cap Mandrake]

[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

*******************Pranning*****************

If Kaga is forced to withdraw, which seems likley, the threat from IJN carrier air will be markedly diminished. I am wondering if we can do a landing even before Wasp arrives. Perhaps Legaspi or Naga in SE Luzon which are out of range of the IJN carriers given their recent station 200-240 miles NW of Manila. This might move more air units to the PI, taking the heat off the Burma landings.

Also the damage to Haruna makes these bases easier to protect from surface bombardment.

[Cap Mandrake]

The PI

[Cap Mandrake]