A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

[Cap Mandrake]

Except now, 160 mires ratah, sun come up and captain of Kamikaze have indigestion or something so decide to attack. See, Mandrake-san try to exprain this to Japan-mens high command. Stupid idea to serve fish-head soup for breakfast tonavarh ships in middurh of batturh. Maybe cheesey-hammy eggs or something but cheap bastards try to save money so rook what-ah hahppen.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Noumea at 108,160, Range 16,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Kamikaze, Shell hits 18, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA San Francisco, Shell hits 1
DD Blue
DD Preston
DD MacDonough

[Cap Mandrake]

*****************Bridge of Kamikaze*****************


Captain Hata: <salvo of 8 in rounds bracket his ship..he speaks quitery to serf> Honored mothah arways say name of ship bad idea.

[Cap Mandrake]

***********Bridge of Kaga, 200 mi to NW************

Cpt. Ogaka: Honorhed Admirarh, weathah rearry bad. Pranes perhaps not-ah make back.

RAdm. Yammaguchi: Too bad. Give extra ration of fish-head soup.

[Cap Mandrake]

Morning Air attack on TF, near Noumea at 109,163

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 77 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 46
B5N2 Kate x 26
D3A1 Val x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires
DD MacDonough
DD Blue

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
12 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp
6 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
13 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp
5 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
7 x D3A1 Val releasing from 1000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb

[Cap Mandrake]

Japan-mens waste 26 perfectarry good torpedoes.

[Cap Mandrake]

Arried-dogs decide not-ah defend Sydney in air today.

Morning Air attack on Sydney , at 90,167

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 13 NM, estimated altitude 32,070 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 40

No Japanese losses

Aircraft Attacking:
40 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 29070 feet *

[Cap Mandrake]

********************Weekend Concert near Seaside Virra**************


<Mandrake-san sit in beach chair risten to music mostry by serf..Andrews Sistahs, Benny Goodman, Kings of Reon..pretty good band. Mandrake-san snap fingahs. Starker Girh dancing with othah womans about 15 feet back. 4 othah womans Mandrake-san not know in front. 3 sit in beach chair but one dance arr of time but face AWAY from stage..sort of face toward Mandrake-san. This-ah seem strange but nevah know who drink too much sake. Aftah about 3 songs SG wark up to Mandrake-san and say in ear..>

SG: You know, that b**** just stare at Mandrake-san. <so Mandrake-san and SG both rook at dancing-womans and eyes on dancing-womans get rear big rike see B-25 coming or something and then dancing-womans sit down immediatery..SG continue> Ha! Sorry to c*** brock you b****! [:D]

Nothing rike acohorh to increase aggressions among womans!

[BBfanboy]

Mandrake-san need to check if SG rerated to Roreena Bobbit!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Mandrake-san need to check if SG rerated to Roreena Bobbit!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt

Seem rike Mandrake-san have to do something wrong first. [:D] Aftah arr, Mandrake-san not-ah actuarry get up and dance with crazy-womans dance backwards from music praying.


Mandrake-san have rittah probrem with Franchise Tax Board in Tokyo so write rettah that say Mandrake-san farring apart and have to go to hospitarh and arso that SG pretty much crazy. [:D] SG have hard time disagree with rettah so sign rettah [:D]

[sprior]

I go walk 100km in France. Germans no keep up with superior Niponese walking https://www.flickr.com/photos/136375121@N08/albums

Give yen here: https://www.justgiving.com/UKVeteransfrontlinewalk/

[Cap Mandrake]

How big was that rusted shell and who left it just lying about?

Also, I never knew there were Indian troops in WWI

[zuluhour]

That was an eerie picture of the cemetery in the mist. Thank you for sharing.

[BBfanboy]

Would have liked to have gone on that walk. I visited the French memorial at Verdun where over 400,000 men are buried. You have to see the carpet of crosses stretching as far as you can see in every direction to get a sense of the slaughter. Some of your pictures do that too. Gut wrenching.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

That was an eerie picture of the cemetery in the mist. Thank you for sharing.

That was a German cemetery. We got there as the sun was rising and the mist lifting. It was very eerie. For some reason (maybe it's the black crosses, a lot of them with no name)they have a completely different feel to the French and Commonwealth cemeteries.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

How big was that rusted shell and who left it just lying about?

Also, I never knew there were Indian troops in WWI

We found quite a bit of what the French and Belgian farmers call the "Iron Harvest". One of the guys found a rifle barrel and the working parts (the stock and furniture had rotted away). It was left at one of the memorials.

[sprior]

Plus 160,000 Chinese http://multimedia.scmp.com/ww1-china/

[BBfanboy]

I had no idea the Chinese participated like that! Many thanks for pointing us to that link.
Sadly, the way Canada treated Chinese laborers who did most of the tough and dangerous work building our transcontinental railroad was shameful, and it foreshadows their cattle car transport across Canada to get to Europe.

[zuluhour]

[:'(]

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I had no idea the Chinese participated like that! Many thanks for pointing us to that link.
Sadly, the way Canada treated Chinese laborers who did most of the tough and dangerous work building our transcontinental railroad was shameful, and it foreshadows their cattle car transport across Canada to get to Europe.

Not much different than the Americans. The Chinese could not become naturalized citizens.

http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/roughingi ... harte.html

[Cap Mandrake]

Sum Ting Wong. [;)]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... ng_Kim_Ark