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

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Have returned from deep recon mission up the coast and have suffered greatly from wine tasting stops.

Interestingly, several of the wineries with medal-winning cabernets, for example, are making really good
Bordeaux style blends but they can't call them like that so they don't market well because there is no place to put
them in stores. They only sell them at the winery.

Have applied for purple heart for trying to keep up with a the nieces and nephews at parents wedding anniversary celebration at a dude ranch. Sweet Baby Jesus, those kids can drink.

I am also going for a purple heart cluster for the Fanny Bay oyster SG made me eat. They were on special for $11.99 a dozen and they tasted superb..very fresh. I'm just not sure what was fresh.

Now, as for map errors.

1) There are no SeeBees around Port Hueneme. Based on the stack there, I should have hit several strays on the 101 freeway.

2) Camp San Luis Obispo (221,75) is pretty much gone too.

3) There is a naval station at Big Sur (219,73) just in case the Japan-mens try to land with rearry, rearry big radders.

4) Fort Ord is just Egrets and bike trails now.

Too bad you didn't drop by the Point Sur Light house. At one time a small town existed only to support the light house. Supplies came by sea. You could have shown he N and N's how lucky they have it now. Very well run tour when I was there. Used to be a Naval listening station next door.

[Cap Mandrake]

I tried to go to the Piedras Blancas light house in Cambria but they were locked up. Evidently they imagined I would make ground chuck out of the elephant seals.

[Cap Mandrake]

***********July 21, 1943(c)***********

Hokkaido: Important safety tip...when using a minelayer as an escort, leave the mines at home.[:)]
Most likely they are reinforcing Hokkaido'

ASW attack near Ominato at 121,57

Japanese Ships
CM Katsuriki, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
xAK Syoryu Maru
xAK Muroran Maru
E Hayabusa

Allied Ships
SS S-35

Massive explosion on CM Katsuriki

[Cap Mandrake]

Formosa: Taihoku falls.

Ground combat at Taihoku (87,63)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2196 troops, 5 guns, 314 vehicles, Assault Value = 557

Defending force 5427 troops, 92 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 62

Allied adjusted assault: 104

Japanese adjusted defense: 13

Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Taihoku !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1456 casualties reported
Squads: 56 destroyed, 28 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 31 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 66 (66 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 12 (2 destroyed, 10 disabled)

Assaulting units:
1st USMC Tank Battalion
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
2nd British Division

[Cap Mandrake]

Oz: Port Headrand is finarry crumbring.

Ground combat at Port Hedland (57,129)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 23693 troops, 243 guns, 875 vehicles, Assault Value = 770

Defending force 23010 troops, 44 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 495

Allied adjusted assault: 460

Japanese adjusted defense: 45

Allied assault odds: 10 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1385 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 145 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
531 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 76 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 24 (3 destroyed, 21 disabled)

Assaulting units:
3rd Motor Brigade
4th Armoured Brigade
1st Motor Brigade
11th Australian Battalion
2/6th Armoured Regiment
2/11th Armoured Car Battalion
2/5th Armoured Regiment
6th Australian Brigade
3rd Australian Brigade
7th RAN Base Force
177th USAAF Base Force
4th RAAF M/W Sqn
808th Engineer Aviation Battalion
15th USN Naval Construction Battalion
34th Aviation Base Force
142nd USA Base Force
141st USA Base Force
1st RAAF M/W Sqn
18th USN Naval Construction Battalion
19th USN Naval Construction Battalion
3rd RAAF M/W Sqn

Defending units:
5th Division
65th Brigade
6th Guards Division
22nd Air Flotilla
16th Army
66th Infantry Group
24th Infantry Regiment
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
4th Infantry Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
51st JNAF AF Unit

[Cap Mandrake]

Luzon: Finishing off the tank regiment that left the reservation.

Ground combat at Cabanatuan (80,76)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 6999 troops, 176 guns, 177 vehicles, Assault Value = 407

Defending force 112 troops, 0 guns, 41 vehicles, Assault Value = 15

Allied adjusted assault: 18

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 18 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker: op mode(-)

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 11 (4 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Assaulting units:
1st Army Tank Regiment
7th Australian Division

Defending units:
23rd Tank Regiment

[Cap Mandrake]

July 1943, we are nearing an invasion of both Kyushu and Hokkaido and we are still behind on points. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Hokkaido

[Cap Mandrake]

************July 22, 1943(c)***********

Oz: The long suffering Japan-men holdouts at Port Hedrand are still fighting.

Ground combat at Port Hedland (57,129)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 23230 troops, 243 guns, 872 vehicles, Assault Value = 710

Defending force 21762 troops, 42 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 398

Allied adjusted assault: 344

Japanese adjusted defense: 33

Allied assault odds: 10 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1302 casualties reported
Squads: 31 destroyed, 19 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 97 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
641 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 52 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 43 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Vehicles lost 39 (6 destroyed, 33 disabled)


The diggers at Port Hedrand are holding up pretty well but several units are understrength as they are mostly reserve units that never took their full draw.

[Cap Mandrake]

Formosa: The LYB's at Taihoku are folding fast. One or two more attacks and they will come out of their bunkers and attack...to be mowed down by Mrs. Vickers.

Ground combat at Taihoku (87,63)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 11936 troops, 207 guns, 421 vehicles, Assault Value = 550

Defending force 2454 troops, 21 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 19

Allied adjusted assault: 123

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 123 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), disruption(-), morale(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
2527 casualties reported
Squads: 136 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 203 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 29 (29 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

Assaulting units:
1st USMC Tank Battalion
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
2nd British Division

Defending units:
4th/B Division
17th JNAF AF Unit

[sprior]

B-17 Sally B at Waddington Air Show yesterday

[sprior]

And the BBMF, Dixie's mob

[sprior]

And here's the Vulcan

[sprior]

Canberra rolling to take off

[Cap Mandrake]

Portuguese...err..no..half Japanese, half American Timor: A stupid staff flunkie forgot to write down there was a whole regiment of LYB infantry at Dili and another staff flunkie
moved the USMC regiment garrison at Lautem. [:(]

Hope the LYB's don't attack, all there is a USMC Def. Bn.


Luzon: We finished off the IJA 23rd Tank Regiment near Cabantuan. It was fun...and good practice for all the P-40 drivers.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

And here's the Vulcan

"Don't cry for me Arjhenteena......"

[Cap Mandrake]

Are those Hurricanes or Spits with the Lancaster? The wings look like Spitfires but I can't tell from that angle.

[sprior]

Spitfires.

[BBfanboy]

Saw the Vulcan up close and personal when it was still in service and came over to display at the Toronto Air Show.
I was stationed at CFB Trenton where the Vulcan and other birds practiced and flew the Toronto mission. Sitting at the end of the
runway just outside the perimeter fence when the Vulcan took off and put in full power for a steep climb - the very ground trembled.
The power and noise of those engines was incredible.

No wonder they guzzled so much fuel that the Falklands raid required something like 8 air-to-air refuelling sessions per Vulcan! That
just made the raid more remarkable.