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

[Cap Mandrake]

***********June 27, 1943(c)***********



Nothing happened...well..almost. Our naval forces began to withdraw from Okinawa and Miyako. We did manage to bombard Kume-jima and Naha. Kume-jima fell tot he first attack by 147th IR

[sprior]

Dad, what did you do in the war? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25782294

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

***********June 27, 1943(c)***********



Nothing happened...well..almost. Our naval forces began to withdraw from Okinawa and Miyako. We did manage to bombard Kume-jima and Naha. Kume-jima fell tot he first attack by 147th IR

We didn't do anything.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Dad, what did you do in the war? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25782294

We had a Norwegian fellow give us a presentation once. He had damned impressive data on markedly reduced cardiovascualr disease frequency in late adulthood for civilians who had lived under Nazi occupation in Norway and the Netherlands during WWII. His thesis was that severe caloric restriction was good for you.

I asked him, "Does eating like that really make you live longer or does it just feel like it?"

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

***********June 27, 1943(c)***********



Nothing happened...well..almost. Our naval forces began to withdraw from Okinawa and Miyako. We did manage to bombard Kume-jima and Naha. Kume-jima fell tot he first attack by 147th IR

We didn't do anything.

It good for Japan-mens morale.

[Cap Mandrake]

The TBF is the "canary in the coal mine" of AE. If there is anything undesireable in the air it WILL become a casualty....Tojos....flak...Angels doing loop-de-loops for fun....radioactive Argon....doesn't matter.


You could send them in at 25K feet with 30 mile visibility, 200 Corsairs on escort, brand-new Bosch platinum-tipped spark plugs and beautiful new enameled ash trays and you would STILL lose one.


Morning Air attack on 48th Division, at 95,66 (Naha)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1

Allied aircraft
Mitchell II x 7
B-17E Fortress x 5
TBF-1 Avenger x 18

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Mitchell II: 3 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
TBF-1 Avenger: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged

[Cap Mandrake]

***************June 29, 1943(c)************

Okinawa: TBF collides with 2nd cousin-once-removed of Gabriel. Gabriel's cousin is knocked unconscious, plunges 8000 ft, but regains consiousness (immortal). TBF is not so lucky. We bomb the WJD's on the ground.


Miri (Borneo): Kanga-roo Bn begins landing. They aren't prepped to 50% but it isn't the A-team ashore either.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

You could send them in at 25K feet with 30 mile visibility, 200 Corsairs on escort, brand-new Bosch platinum-tipped spark plugs and beautiful new enameled ash trays and you would STILL lose one.

Of course you're going to lose the beautiful new enameled ash trays if you put them near the front lines. Was there at least an M&M enterprises IOU in the cavity for the ash trays-akin to the IOU in the parachutes of a couple years back?

[mind_messing]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Dad, what did you do in the war? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25782294

We had a Norwegian fellow give us a presentation once. He had damned impressive data on markedly reduced cardiovascualr disease frequency in late adulthood for civilians who had lived under Nazi occupation in Norway and the Netherlands during WWII. His thesis was that severe caloric restriction was good for you.

I asked him, "Does eating like that really make you live longer or does it just feel like it?"

Jay Winter has argued along the same lines for the British population during WW1: rationing meant a better diet, though there were a bunch of other factors involved.

[poodlebrain]

I'm going out on a limb here, but I suspect it will be determined that just about all of the lost TBFs were piloted by individuals possessing stylish platinum Swiss aviator watches produced under license for M&M Enterprises that came in authentic TBF ash tray sized fancy enamel cases.

[CT Grognard]

That photo is of Admiral Edouard Guillaud, the French Chief of the Defense Staff.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: CT Grognard

That photo is of Admiral Edouard Guillaud, the French Chief of the Defense Staff.

[:D][:D][:D]

In January 2014, a photoshopped screenshot from a French TV show from January 2012 started circulating the internet and quickly went viral where Admiral Édouard Guillaud's name in the onscreen caption had been replaced by Général Arse Biscuités.[6]

"Arse Biscuits" is a phrase made popular in the television show Father Ted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Guillaud

[sprior]

Submarine Escape Training: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD1yu5Cxxkg

[Chickenboy]

Up here it's cold enough that we've got our Blue Peter badges too.

[poodlebrain]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Up here it's cold enough that we've got our Blue Peter badges too.

Are those the same as Shrunken Willie badges?

[Cap Mandrake]

Very important furniture safety tip.

If one of your neighbors gets completely plastered, locks herself out of her house at 02:00 in the morning.... and can't walk...do NOT volunteer your leather couch!

Important leg health tip......also don't try to use your I phone for a light and scout around looking for an open window in the back yard of the neighbor's house with about 42 elevation changes in the landscaping...and no outdoor light on a moonless night.

[Cap Mandrake]

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

Embarcation for Operation Sticky Green has begun at Seattle, Victoria and Pearl. Essex and a CVL push off from San Fran. One CVE will escort the lads leaving Pearl. 3 CVE's will escort the troops from Victoria and Seattle. 1 CVE has Thunderbots to fly off onto the first airfield we capture.

Shemya will be level 5 in a day or two. It will serve as an inadequate base for a few heavy raids on P-jima.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Very important furniture safety tip.

If one of your neighbors gets completely plastered, locks herself out of her house at 02:00 in the morning.... and can't walk...do NOT volunteer your leather couch!

Did you end up with a free surface? Those can be dangerous.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Very important furniture safety tip.

If one of your neighbors gets completely plastered, locks herself out of her house at 02:00 in the morning.... and can't walk...do NOT volunteer your leather couch!

Did you end up with a free surface? Those can be dangerous.

I am going to guess this does not mean stubbing one's toe on a step in the dark, tripping over the patio furniture and nearly falling into the jacuzzi?

I need the 4th rotor, don't I?

[Cap Mandrake]

So I went fishing yesterday off Huntington Beach. Very nice weather (although the water is still cold by SO Cal standards--60). Glassy seas, 5 foot swells but they were 21 seconds apart and very little wind. Plus I had a Trans-derm Scop patch.[:)]

Pretty crappy fishing. I got one damn sand-dab. Boat was crowded so everyone was getting tangled with 150-300 of line to the bottom. There was an old guy next to me who thought he was ******* Spencer Tracy from Old Man and the Sea except he looked like Mr. Miyagi who had spent 30 years baking in the sun. The ass-hole kept telling me and SG what we were doing wrong. The KGB used to use scopalamine as a truth serum. I think it works because I wanted to tell the guy where to go right before I gaffed him.