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

[Cap Mandrake]

The most dangerous job in the US Navy in WWII(c) is:


1) TBD crewman

2) Minesweeper crew, assigned to intercept incoming Jap battleships

3) Assignment to a Sea Bee Bn.

[:D]

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

And in the Real World (tm) the DU got offered a plce at uni today. She wants to do paediatric nursing.i

Congratulations, Lord Admiral. That's good news. [:)]

+1 ... I cannot do Ped's ... I found the PICU especally distressing .. it takes a very very special person to serve pediatric pt's ...[I do adult iICU about to earn my ACNP ...]

[Cap Mandrake]

Inventory of losses off Samar and Legaspi yesterday:

50 M3/M2's and halftracks

650 men (mostly from 193rd Construction Regt)

LST
LCT
AP x 2 (including a 20 pt Dutch AP)

[Cap Mandrake]

***************Bali Hai Club-Jolo, March 23, 1943(c)*******************


A large sign out front reads:

"FREE DANCES WITH REAL TAHITIAN GIRLS---50 CENT BEERS--GRAND OPENING!"

A huge line of GI's and Commonwealth troops queue up outside the establsihment.


Intensely pigmented young man with shaved head and broad smile standing on tree stump*: Welcome! Welcome! I am Idi Amin Dada, club-owner for life!





* The man is standing on the stump not the broad smile.

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[witpqs]

"Col Douglas, sir, this doesn't look like NW Australia."

"I know, I know....

[Cap Mandrake]

*******************II US Fighter Command HQ, Jolo, March 23, 1943(c)*******************

Maj. Gen Wurtsmith, commanding: Where the Hell is everyone?

[Crackaces]

Maj. Gen Wurtsmith

If I might say his admin (49) and inspiration (53) are rather low .. once troops/pilots get back from the club they are not going to be inspired to put forth effort on the war .. [8D]

[Chickenboy]

99 fatigue, but morale in the 93-94 range? Thank goodness they're Aussie diggers with impenetrable morale! [&o] Just think if you'd used medical battalions of depressives, narcoleptics or CFS patients. Or California GOP members...

[Cap Mandrake]

They have "bottle fatigue" not "battle fatigue"

[sprior]

Everyone is on the move in Burma, I think we've been rumbled:

[sprior]

JJ's nemsis in Burma ploughs on...

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Everyone is on the move in Burma, I think we've been rumbled:

Point of clarification: Are we the Jets or the Sharks?

Guy with B-ball: Joo better talk nice...or I will do a pirouette

[Cap Mandrake]

[font="Courier New"]Admiral Lord Sprior:

There are cucarachas del mar ENE of Sabang. Over and out.


Fleet Admiral Mandrake[/font]

[Cap Mandrake]

***************PI Pranning**************

The toe-dipping operation at Legaspi is not going so well. The fast transport taffy did not unload suppries due to its encounter with &#^@**# Kuma. The base has zero suppry. Not one single aviation support point arrived by air transport. None of 3rd Marine Tank Bn has unloaded yet. We lost an LST and 2 AP's without getting anything ashore yet.

I blame the staff.

The good news is the air groups there are in remarkably good morale and with only about 30% disabled airframes.

The "main body" will pull back a bit more toward Butuan (Mindanao) and we will try to get the APD's in there. The remaining LST and LCT's at Legaspi should unload tonight (I hope) and then they can beat feet back toward Surigao.

Cagayn is now level 5. We bring up the resting B-24's at Saumlaki and go after Clark today.

The CV's/CVE's arriving off Western Mindanao today. IJN carriers have disappeared. Maybe they are heading around to the Eastern shore of Luzon or they just bugged out.

[sprior]

These blokes are raring to go:

[sprior]

Sabang

I wish I knew where that was

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

These blokes are raring to go:

Wow! They rejuvenated quickly! And 3 AEC Matadors too! I will send of the new APA's from Sydney.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Sabang

I wish I knew where that was

"Northern" tip of Sumatra. JJ probably started something from Singers when they spotted us in the Bay of Bengal.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Wow! They rejuvenated quickly!

They'd be even more potent if you had the other 18% of the unit. I assume that was just destroyed outright and hasn't yet been rebuilt, Lord Admiral?