At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

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Why, Chickenboy-san ... it sounds like you are siding with Allied-mens side! Are you confused about which Mandrake/sprior-sans AAR you are in? [:'(]

Sadry, not-ah this time, most honorabre torpedo magnet fanboi. Chickenboy-san try on very rare occasion to keep it-ah "rear" and provide honest-to-ah-goodness advice.

Honestry. [;)]
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Why, Chickenboy-san ... it sounds like you are siding with Allied-mens side! Are you confused about which Mandrake/sprior-sans AAR you are in? [:'(]

Sadry, not-ah this time, most honorabre torpedo magnet fanboi. Chickenboy-san try on very rare occasion to keep it-ah "rear" and provide honest-to-ah-goodness advice.

Honestry. [;)]
Ah-so! Chickenboy-san very crever! Give just enuff good advice to make his bad advices crediburh!
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Quite a complicated turn. Arizona and 5 DD's will take up a patrol box near Noumea plus the only PT boats left (3). 97 fighters in the air over Noumea (barring a successful Jap night bombardment)

The other ships, including the AD and AE and TK's and 2 BB's will retreat to Tanna. We will need some surface firepower for tomorrow night as well.
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**************National Park Service HQ, Washington****************


Park Service Director: Yogi, how are those contingency plans for the Arizona Memorial coming?
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Interesting situation:

1) Leave the BB's in battle line at Noumea to fend off potential night or even daytime surface raids...and hope the fighters can protect them in the morning?

2) Leave Trenton and a few DD's at Noumea and send the BB's to Tanna. Let the little guys absorb the first strike and hope the airfield survives?

If the AF escapes damage it will be level 3 tomorrow. JJ will have to be cautious about dedicating bombers to AF strikes because they have seen the USN carriers

The AF is key here as it ultimately controls the the N&I C AOR. Anything that allows it to go to Level 3 and stay operational is unfortunately expendable.

This is true. Given the pace of destruction of Oz, our threat to the WJD troops on N&IC is our only leverage.
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****************************Feb 20, 42(e)*******************

Noumea: Either JJ chopped their naval attack range down or they advanced no further or the AI chose not to attack against the CAP over Noumea. We got only sweep attacks. Naturally, the P-400's with 47-55 experience pilots did not fare so well.

Morning Air attack on Noumea , at 115,160

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 19,070 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13

Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 1
P-39D Airacobra x 40
P-400 Airacobra x 11
P-40B Warhawk x 24
F4F-3 Wildcat x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-400 Airacobra: 2 destroyed
P-40B Warhawk: 3 destroyed


The only operational P-38E in the PTO was shot down.

Morning Air attack on Noumea , at 115,160

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 22,070 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 14

Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 1
P-39D Airacobra x 36
P-400 Airacobra x 4
P-40B Warhawk x 13
F4F-3 Wildcat x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed


They come in by squadron

Morning Air attack on Noumea , at 115,160

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 24,070 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 29
P-400 Airacobra x 4
P-40B Warhawk x 11
F4F-3 Wildcat x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 3 destroyed
P-40B Warhawk: 2 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 2 destroyed
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Ahhh...Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits*...and an AE turn. Nice Labor Day!




*Just kidding
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Needed: Suggestion for father/daughter dance at my daughter's wedding in 2 weeks.


I suggested George Thorogood--"One whiskey, on scotch, one beer" but was overruled.
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How about Steamroller from JT?[;)] 
Taylor not Tull..
assuming 19th Nervous Break down is out.
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We got our booty kicked in the air..almost 3:1 in fighters, although they probably lost a greater percentage of pilots.

Noumea moves to level 3 and is building about 14% per day thanks to another Aviation Engineer Bn now ashore.



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How about Steamroller from JT?[;)] 
Taylor not Tull..
assuming 19th Nervous Break down is out.

[:)] I think any four-letter action verbs of Germanic origin are out.
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Future son-in-law: Good news, Mr. Mandrake! We thought there might be 200 attending but it looks more like 192!

Me: Wow! Looks like a trip to Europe for old Mandrake!
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Ahhh...Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits*...and an AE turn. Nice Labor Day!




*Just kidding
Started to plan an intervention until I read the note. [:D]
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Went to the beach yesterday..fantastic weather, water unbelievably warm...set of huge waves came in and started to push me back to the breaking zone so I had to work pretty hard to get back out. Hory crap! Admiral Mandrake was completely sucking wind. I new the CO2 level was rising but nobody told me the Oxygen level had got so low! The lifeguard came out and asked if Admiral Mandrake needed help. I sent him over to help some teenage girls who were panicked. Much better to go glub glub than lose face.
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After that Admiral Mandrake came to his senses, sat down in his beach chair, poured a big Red Solo Cup full of Jameson and 7-up that he sneaked onto the beach in a 7-up bottle and watched everyone else get rescued, of which there were many, probably dozens. Every 10-15 minutes another huge set would arrive and all those new beachgoers who had not seen the previous set would get caught in the washing machine with huge chop and a tremendous backsurge after two or three waves piled up a billion gallons of water on the steep beach. You could see 7-8 human heads sticking out of the foam being carried back out 50 yds in seconds. Nobody drowned, AFAIK, but they really should have closed the beach.
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After that Admiral Mandrake came to his senses, sat down in his beach chair, poured a big Red Solo Cup full of Jameson and 7-up that he sneaked onto the beach in a 7-up bottle and watched everyone else get rescued, of which there were many, probably dozens. Every 10-15 minutes another huge set would arrive and all those new beachgoers who had not seen the previous set would get caught in the washing machine with huge chop and a tremendous backsurge after two or three waves piled up a billion gallons of water on the steep beach. You could see 7-8 human heads sticking out of the foam being carried back out 50 yds in seconds. Nobody drowned, AFAIK, but they really should have closed the beach.
Halfway through this post I thought the "sets" you were talking about were the ones barely hidden by bikinis ... [;)]
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Needed: Suggestion for father/daughter dance at my daughter's wedding in 2 weeks.


I suggested George Thorogood--"One whiskey, on scotch, one beer" but was overruled.
"Wild World" by Cat Stevens?

PS: I am sure we can find 8 forumites to fill those empty chairs at the reception ...
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KB standing off 320 WNW of Noumea...now said to have 84 fighters. JJ sent three 21 plane fighter sweeps yesterday. That is over 75% of their fighter strength. They don't dare do that if they close to SBD range, although they could still use their range advantage to pound Arizona or the AF.

We can't really afford to lose 32 fighters a day but they can't keep it up forever either. We will move some P-39's from Brisbane and some more P-40B's from Tanna. Maybe send in some A-24's to bomb La Foa and make JJ nervous.

76 new P-39's just arrived at Suva in crates yesterday.
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Needed: Suggestion for father/daughter dance at my daughter's wedding in 2 weeks.


I suggested George Thorogood--"One whiskey, on scotch, one beer" but was overruled.
"Wild World" by Cat Stevens?

PS: I am sure we can find 8 forumites to fill those empty chairs at the reception ...

1)No Muslim music [:D]


2) I spent the $1800 already.[:D]

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After that Admiral Mandrake came to his senses, sat down in his beach chair, poured a big Red Solo Cup full of Jameson and 7-up that he sneaked onto the beach in a 7-up bottle and watched everyone else get rescued, of which there were many, probably dozens. Every 10-15 minutes another huge set would arrive and all those new beachgoers who had not seen the previous set would get caught in the washing machine with huge chop and a tremendous backsurge after two or three waves piled up a billion gallons of water on the steep beach. You could see 7-8 human heads sticking out of the foam being carried back out 50 yds in seconds. Nobody drowned, AFAIK, but they really should have closed the beach.
Halfway through this post I thought the "sets" you were talking about were the ones barely hidden by bikinis ... [;)]

Speaking of that, Mothers of America, will you please check what your teen daughters are wearing to the beach! It's like Brazil. I can't believe any parent would go along with that. I felt like I needed to hand out exam gowns.
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