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

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
The problem would be to turn it off when the war is over.

Pfft...what? Riotous jihadis still populating the Moluccas and Mindanao 75 years from now (c)? Right...like that'll happen. [8|]

[Cap Mandrake]

Just discovered something. Shemya is a West Coast base. This frees up all the restricted USN bombers squadrons on dangerous duty in Oahu and San Diego and San Francisco.

Even better, we have 85 PB4Y-1's sitting around under canvas. They can be our force on Shemya, putting them
within range of Paramashiro-jima.

How is the defensive armor on the PB4Y-1?

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[Cap Mandrake]

******************June 12 & 13, 1943(c)***************


Burma: On the 12th, RAF and Tenth Air Force heavy and medium bombers attack Rangoon, losing 2 bombers but driving runway damage rises to 73%
On the 13th, they switch to Pegu. Neither field puts up any fighters on the 13th.

Bay of Bengal: On the 12th, we try to sneak up on the LYB's at Port Blair. Many squaws cry in teepee that night.

Ground combat at Port Blair (46,58)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 6197 troops, 45 guns, 82 vehicles, Assault Value = 295

Defending force 14415 troops, 144 guns, 21 vehicles, Assault Value = 395

Allied adjusted assault: 83

Japanese adjusted defense: 2075

Allied assault odds: 1 to 25 (fort level 4)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
121 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
3004 casualties reported
Squads: 222 destroyed, 16 disabled
Non Combat: 108 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 25 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 10 (8 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 40 (31 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
45th Indian Brigade
44th Indian Brigade
29th British Brigade
173 Wing
13th Indian Light AA Regiment
120th RAF Base Force

Defending units:
56th Infantry Regiment
10th Garrison Unit
55th Infantry Regiment
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Provisional Base Force


WJD counterattack on the 13th. Utoh. Time for some bombers to help.

Ground combat at Port Blair (46,58)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 14312 troops, 144 guns, 21 vehicles, Assault Value = 386

Defending force 6399 troops, 87 guns, 92 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Japanese adjusted assault: 282

Allied adjusted defense: 131

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
768 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 78 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled

Allied ground losses:
529 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 61 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 10 (2 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Assaulting units:
55th Infantry Regiment
56th Infantry Regiment
10th Garrison Unit
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Provisional Base Force

Defending units:
29th British Brigade
173 Wing
13th Indian Light AA Regiment
44th Indian Brigade
120th RAF Base Force

[Cap Mandrake]

Situation BEFORE the counterattack of the 13th.

[Cap Mandrake]

Okinawa: More bombing. We switch to Nago with the bombers. Japan-mens fighters run away from P-47's. Die rolls are one thing but I think North Carolina is just better at bombardment.

Night Naval bombardment of Naha at 95,66

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-30 Ann: 2 damaged
Ki-30 Ann: 2 destroyed on ground
D3A2 Val: 12 damaged
D3A2 Val: 1 destroyed on ground
D3A1 Val: 4 damaged
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 damaged
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-32 Mary: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
BB North Carolina

Japanese ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Manpower hits 1
Fires 64
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 20
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1

Postmaster of Naha, Hideo Tanaka, working as spotter for North Carolina
BB North Carolina firing at Naha

[Lecivius]

Allied ground losses:
3004 casualties reported
Squads: 222 destroyed, 16 disabled


Man, that's gonna leave a dent in procurement [:-]

[Cap Mandrake]

****************02:20, June 13, 1943(c), Main Gun Director, North Dakota, 6,000 yds off Naha**************

<a large flash is seen as the ranging round lands near the target>

Accented voice over radio piped into gun director: RONG THREE HUNNET! Ovah!

Lt. Cmdr. York: Did you say "wrong", over?

Accented voice over radio piped into gun director: NO, RONG! TOO RONG!

Lt. Cmdr. York: OHHHHH! You mean "long", over?

Accented voice over radio piped into gun director: Yeah, that what I say. Rook is Miro there? You idiots get me kirred.

Lt. Cmdr. York: Calls out to crew, "DOWN THREE HUNNET!"

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

Allied ground losses:
3004 casualties reported
Squads: 222 destroyed, 16 disabled


Man, that's gonna leave a dent in procurement [:-]

News blackout. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

I fear a grievous startegic error has been made.






I had homemade pea soup for breakfast and some rearry good chile for lunch. Only afterward did I consider the "logistical" implications. So far, nothing, but it may just be the calm before the storm.

[witpqs]

Lemme guess, and you're having Thai for dinner??? [&:]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Lemme guess, and you're having Thai for dinner??? [&:]

Do I look THAT stupid? We're having Greek. Hummus and cucumber salad.

[jeffk3510]

You should meet the mother of the children my wife babysits for.

Shes a lactationist...(spelling) for those of you who don't know, google it on a non work computer

She is a super uber organic tree hugger..

I call her the organic milker.

She has a bumper sticker on her car that says Human Milk for Humans, Cows Milk for Cows...[8|]

She flat out told my wife's best friend the reason her kid has foot allergies is because she didn't breast feed and that she is an awful mom.

Good thing she is smoking hot.....not sure how her hubby puts up with it.

Not sure why I put this here, hummus and cucumbers salad looked liked human salad when I first glanced at it....

but I figured this AAR of all AARs would be the place to put it.

She's bat shit crazy.

Having fun with all the later war AFB toys, and getting to play in other places than Aus, Solomons, and Burma?

[Cap Mandrake]

Lactonazis. Like that is why God put them there? Phhht.

Still, if my mom had breast fed me....maybe......

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Lemme guess, and you're having Thai for dinner??? [&:]

Do I look THAT stupid? We're having Greek. Hummus and cucumber salad.

Hmm... propellant already in place. Greek (lots of oil) = lubricant. Hummus = gas seal. Cucumbers = buckshot substitute.

Sounds like you're loaded for bear!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Postmaster of Naha, Hideo Tanaka, working as spotter for North Carolina

Knew that M&M Recon rider would come in handy! [8D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510
Shes a lactationist...(spelling) for those of you who don't know, google it on a non work computer

I appreciate the hell out of lactationists / lactation consultants. Have you priced infant formula lately? When I saw that before our first born, I pointed at my wife's breastesses and exclaimed, "Those things had better work!"

Every time she breastfed, I heard a cash register sound. Music to my ears.

[sanch]

Hmm... propellant already in place. Greek (lots of oil) = lubricant. Hummus = gas seal. Cucumbers = buckshot substitute.

Sounds like you're loaded for bear!

Drat, I have to go and dry out my keyboard again. I should know by now not to read this AAR with refreshment in hand.

[Cap Mandrake]

Speaking of things blowing up..watched a tremendous Nova special on the Ruhr dams raid.

Crazy engineering prof from Trinity College recreates the entire process from an engineering standpoint, they build a replica bomb and drop if rom a bush plane in Canada...and...well you have to watch it.


Nova: Bombing Hitler's Dams

It sounds like some History Channel childish, unhistorical treatment but it is very good. They found a Canadian bush pilot with 13,000 hrs. Crazy old guy.

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510
Shes a lactationist...(spelling) for those of you who don't know, google it on a non work computer

I appreciate the hell out of lactationists / lactation consultants. Have you priced infant formula lately? When I saw that before our first born, I pointed at my wife's breastesses and exclaimed, "Those things had better work!"

Every time she breastfed, I heard a cash register sound. Music to my ears.

Everyone's opinion is like a penis. You can wave it around, show anyone you want,
but please don't cram it down my throat.

My wife breastfeeds, but when she can't, who the f cares...stuff happens.. stuff comes up, she can't pump, she can't feed, that's what formula is for.

Not yelling at you, yelling at the lactanazi..