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

[witpqs]

In a veterinary setting, certainly yes. In a medical setting, naw - people are cleaner than animals already.

[sprior]

Due to a cockup on the navigation front the Moulmein invasion TFs will rendezvous to the west of Bassein.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior
Due to a cockup on the navigation front

What do you call "Staff Flunkies" in the RN?

[sprior]

The Flag Lieutenant. But he'd probably blame the bunting tossers.

[Cap Mandrake]

I was thinking about this. Why did the Royal Navy feel the need to have a standardized secret word for an anatomical subunit of the perineum (according to the more general usage)? I can see if you are doing Obstetrics, perhaps, but when does one use this expression ordinary conversation? Really. Bike seat designers? Bikini designers?

More likely it's like the Eskimos having 19 words for snow.

[zuluhour]

I fail to see why a little innocent ship board porn led to different rendezvous.

[Cap Mandrake]

Yes, good point. They probably got lost because they were out in the middle of the Bay of Bengal talking about their experiences at baffins bridge.

[poodlebrain]

If the lost sailors you are referring to are well disciplined members of the RN, aren't they more likely to have gained their experience abaft of Baffins Bridge?

[Cap Mandrake]

Easy there amigo. Churchill might be able to get away with saying something like that .....but... [;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

****************July 4, 1943(c)***************

Tandjoengpinang: Huh? Oh, it's near Singers. One doesnt usually see 3 DD's escorting transports. I wonder if these ships are headed to Burma?


ASW attack near Tandjoengpinang at 52,85

Japanese Ships
DD Yugure
DD Mikazuki
DD Isonami

Allied Ships
SS Herring, hits 8

[Cap Mandrake]

Beazelbob: Our carrier strike was kind of....flaccid...so we send in some surface combatants at night. Seems like our lads gave up too early and missed an opportunity. Out of ammo? Torps? Jittery task force commander? Maybe the IJN escorts just put up a good fight?

Night Time Surface Combat, near Babeldaob at 90,97, Range 5,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
xAK Uga Maru
xAK Zuiko Maru
xAK Hokusin Maru
xAK Kotohira Maru, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Yae Maru, Shell hits 5, on fire
xAK Ryuyo Maru
xAK Yamabuki Maru, Shell hits 2
xAK Mansei Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
xAK Ryuzin Maru, Shell hits 5
PB Choko Maru #5, Shell hits 14, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Kosin Maru #3, Shell hits 10, heavy fires
PB Suyozai Maru, Shell hits 13, and is sunk
DMS Tatsuko, Shell hits 6, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA San Francisco
CL Phoenix
CL Boise
DD Strong
DD Meredith

[Cap Mandrake]

Okinawa: We lose another Beaufort and a B-24 to flak over Naha. We get one rousy port suppry hit and brow up a few trucks.

37th ID and anothe USMC Div are about ready to go to Naha after taking replacements.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Easy there amigo. Churchill might be able to get away with saying something like that .....but... [;)]

A marlin spike up the jacksy often offends.

[Cap Mandrake]

A universal truth, no doubt.

[zuluhour]

Boy was I tempted to lay the Green Bay Packer fan line out, but I won't.

ps I spent the better part of lunch today reading back, Oh say 2 inches worth of pages. How on earth you two thwarted the whole IJ thing off NW Australia is good stuff. I think that may be some of the best early allied play I've read.

pss Paying attention while digesting it is still difficult, there is so much going on between the AAR, M&M, the IJN, and the rest of the merry pranksters its easy to miss just how you (Sprior probably has a great word or phrase for it) put a bag on the emperors head and smacked him around.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour
how you (Sprior probably has a great word or phrase for it) put a bag on the emperors head and smacked him around.

If it involved a paddling on the bum, I think the English call that 'foreplay'.

[Emmor]

The great commander Colonel Angus commands the area just north of Baffins Bridge. His HQ is at Shady Thicket.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

If it involved a paddling on the bum, I think the English call that 'foreplay'.

You made the memsahib blush and giggle.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

Boy was I tempted to lay the Green Bay Packer fan line out, but I won't.

ps I spent the better part of lunch today reading back, Oh say 2 inches worth of pages. How on earth you two thwarted the whole IJ thing off NW Australia is good stuff. I think that may be some of the best early allied play I've read.

pss Paying attention while digesting it is still difficult, there is so much going on between the AAR, M&M, the IJN, and the rest of the merry pranksters its easy to miss just how you (Sprior probably has a great word or phrase for it) put a bag on the emperors head and smacked him around.

SOME of the best?

Here's our strategy:

1. Scrape everything together that you can find and
2. Fling it at the Japanese.

I think just about every fighting vessel of DD size and higher that we had was sent there. The IO was stripped bare of RN units, at one time it was defended by nothing but a pair of Flower class corvettes.

[Cap Mandrake]

The 32 Naval Battles of Port Hedrand were truly epic.

Not only was it the entire RN Eastern Fleet save for Hermes, it was, with exception of 2 dozen subs and a single four stacker in the Aleutians, everything the USN had above harbor patrol boats in the Pacific AND the RAN and any Dutch ships still afloat.

We had some really good days (the last carrier battle in the series) and and really bad days (when JJ got in among our carriers at night and shot 2 to pieces).

It was also every unrestricted USAAF medium and heavy bomber squadron in the PTO (except for a few training squadrons) and the entire RAAF. Hudsons, A-20's, B-18's, mail planes. Everything.

32nd ID and East Africa Brigade were worn down to bloody stumps after receiving literally weeks of 2:1 and 3:1 attacks 6 days a week.

Probably fun for both sides because we were on the knife edge for weeks.

The whole time Pearl Harbor was guarded by 12 P-40B's and some Brewsters. [:)]