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

[Cap Mandrake]

Efate gets squished. I can't wait for the real B-24's

Morning Air attack on Efate , at 120,154

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 15

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 22

[Cap Mandrake]

Luzon et environs: We have been waiting for 3 months. Now we unleash the dreaded Kingfishers!

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Busuanga at 77,80

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
OS2U-3 Kingfisher x 2

Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Nanko Maru, Bomb hits 1

AND a flock of Seagulls!

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Busuanga at 77,80

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Allied aircraft
SOC-1 Seagull x 4

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Yasukawa Maru

The pinnacle of achievement for the Philippine Air Force. "ATAKE" (Evidently there is no word for "attack" in Tagalog so they use pidgin Spanish.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Busuanga at 77,80
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Busuanga at 77,80

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 2 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 0 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-10B x 2

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Hiyama Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-10B bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 4 x 250 lb SAP Bomb

WOW! That made my toes curl up!

[Cap Mandrake]

We attack in daylight to try to get the PT boats sunk so MacArthur will have to stay in Manila. Alas...JJ runs away.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Tablas at 79,81, Range 17,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
TB Kiji
TB Kamo
xAK Kinryu Maru
xAK Teisen Maru

Allied Ships
PT-31
PT-32
PT-34
PT Q-112
PT Q-113

[Cap Mandrake]

Derby: JJ had previously had taken Broome with Yokusuka 4th SNLF. We tried for a while to shut down the airfield with B-17's from Darwin and then the 17's were needed on N&IC. About a week ago, JJ started marching East on Derby and, humorously, Broome flipped back to Australian control the second they left. Today, they crossed the saltie-infested river and attacked Derby and just completely crushed 251st Recce Bn. Another unit began landing today but would not have participated in the attack.

This was a disappointing performance by 251 Recce

Ground combat at Derby (64,127)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1935 troops, 19 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Defending force 1183 troops, 16 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 24

Japanese adjusted assault: 70

Allied adjusted defense: 7

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Derby !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
104 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
960 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 63 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (5 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (9 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
24th Nav Gsn Unit
Yokosuka 4th SNLF

Defending units:
251st Recce Battalion
Derby RAN Stn Base Force
305th Base Sqdn /2

[Cap Mandrake]

-----------CIVIC ANNOUNCEMENT-------

Owing to scarcities from the present emergency, the bread price will rise to $2.60 per loaf. We regret this necessary step. Please join us for the free concert in the Broome town square Saturday at noon.


Thank You!



M.Minderbinder, Acting City Administrator, Broome*



* Sole supplier of administrative services under contract with the Australian government[font="Courier New"][/font]

[sprior]

They say it’s acceptable to mop up gravy with a piece of bread but then they say, it has to be "your plate" & you have to "have clothes on".

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

This was a disappointing performance by 251 Recce

I told them chasing foxes was no practice for fighting on tanks.

[Reg]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

-----------CIVIC ANNOUNCEMENT-------

Owing to scarcities from the present emergency, the bread price will rise to $2.60 per loaf. We regret this necessary step. Please join us for the free concert in the Broome town square Saturday at noon.


Thank You!



M.Minderbinder, Acting City Administrator, Broome*



* Sole supplier of administrative services under contract with the Australian government[font="Courier New"][/font]

Surely you meant to say £2 12s 0d. (Two pound twelve...) [:)]

Decimal currency wasn't introduced into Australia until 1966.

For comparison:

Code: Select all

 Average yearly wage   Male 	     Female
 factory workers 
 
 1940 	              £248 5s 8d     £123 1s 3d 
                       (£4 15s 6d/wk)  (£2 7s 4d/wk)

[size=-2]1942 Australian One Pound Note[/size]

[zuluhour]

MY GOD MAN! When you choosing leadership qualities one must be more selective.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Reg

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

-----------CIVIC ANNOUNCEMENT-------

Owing to scarcities from the present emergency, the bread price will rise to $2.60 per loaf. We regret this necessary step. Please join us for the free concert in the Broome town square Saturday at noon.


Thank You!



M.Minderbinder, Acting City Administrator, Broome*



* Sole supplier of administrative services under contract with the Australian government[font="Courier New"][/font]

Surely you meant to say £2 12s 0d. (Two pound twelve...) [:)]

Decimal currency wasn't introduced into Australia until 1966.

For comparison:

Code: Select all

 Average yearly wage   Male 	     Female
 factory workers 
 
 1940 	              £248 5s 8d     £123 1s 3d 
                       (£4 15s 6d/wk)  (£2 7s 4d/wk)

[size=-2]1942 Australian One Pound Note[/size]

I'm shocked! If I didn't know any better I would have to assume Mr. Minderbinder is involved in some kind of war profiteering.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Reg

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

-----------CIVIC ANNOUNCEMENT-------

Owing to scarcities from the present emergency, the bread price will rise to $2.60 per loaf. We regret this necessary step. Please join us for the free concert in the Broome town square Saturday at noon.


Thank You!



M.Minderbinder, Acting City Administrator, Broome*



* Sole supplier of administrative services under contract with the Australian government[font="Courier New"][/font]

Surely you meant to say £2 12s 0d. (Two pound twelve...) [:)]

Decimal currency wasn't introduced into Australia until 1966.

For comparison:

Code: Select all

 Average yearly wage   Male 	     Female
 factory workers 
 
 1940 	              £248 5s 8d     £123 1s 3d 
                       (£4 15s 6d/wk)  (£2 7s 4d/wk)

[size=-2]1942 Australian One Pound Note[/size]

I'm shocked! If I didn't know any better I would have to assume Mr. Minderbinder is involved in some kind of war profiteering.

He's probably fixing to sell the empty portrait space on the left for sponsorship!

[Cap Mandrake]

Most dangerous job in the USN is no longer to serve on a minesweeper. Today, it was SBD crews.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs
He's probably fixing to sell the empty portrait space on the left for sponsorship!

Or maybe the "Famous Stammerers" collectible series.

[Cap Mandrake]

By ra way, the new Star Wars thingy is fantastic in IMAX 3D. I believe it would not be a spoiler to say some of the original characters are better preserved than others.[:)] [:)]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

By ra way, the new Star Wars thingy is fantastic in IMAX 3D. I believe it would not be a spoiler to say some of the original characters are better preserved than others.[:)] [:)]

Going tomorrow evening to the IMAX. Reviews from others (about the experience, not the movie plot) are glowing!
Did you get any ideas for strategy or upgrades from the movie?

[Cap Mandrake]

I gave out 3 x 750ml Maker's Mark as gifts and received a 1.5L bottle of Maker's Mark and 750m of Jameson as gifts.

Do you realize what this means? The goal of theoretical physics for decades....Whiskey Supersymmetry

[Cap Mandrake]

So SG is trying to talk me into this New Year's Eve Party instead of going to see Phil Shane,
the 5ft 4 guy with a rug singing Elvis and Neil Diamond and Tom Jones songs....

FAM: Who's going?

SG: Pocahantas Girl.....blah, blah, blah....(all divorced women who have less than flattering things to say about their Ex's)

FAM: That sounds like the League of Extraordinary Misandrists..

SG: What does that mean?

FAM: Manhaters.

SG: You are so judgemental

FAM: So was Jehova. Look at all the trouble from the golden cow thing. Are there any guys going?

SG: <makes a phone call> Yes some of the girls are bringing boyfriends.

FAM: Alright, but if I hear one XX chromosome rant I am leaving.



So we get there about 8....waaaaay too early for a New Year's Eve party if you ask me. I'm the only guy so far so they put me to work trying to find Karaoke on the cable box. After about 5 minutes of scrolling around a good joke occurs to me. It's Cox Cable. Hehe.

So I go into the kitchen..

FAM: Anyone good with Cox?

Gathered Hens: <1.5 second delay> ME...ME.ME...ME Hahahahahah. The hardest part is finding one first. AHAHAHAHAH. <I have to leave the room because it just gets worse>

Finally someone shows up with a good sound system and two guys and dangerous amounts of alcohol are disappearing. Music is good and I have had enough to drink so that I am deluded into thinking I can dance. Two straight guys (0ne of them me) and a gay guy pretending to be
straight and about 10 women....so the women are just attacking us. I have to admit it was pretty damn fun. Way better than Phil Shane.

So I'm practicing my salsa moves until suddenly about 11:30 I feel like I have been hit by 100mg of Ketamine from a dart gun. I stumble out to the patio and lie down on like a White Rhino on some animal show. Same thing happens to SG and they herd her into a warm bed but th4ey leave me out there. This is foreshadowing.

I swear somebody spiked something because both us went from 70% to 250% in about 2 minutes. I am out there on the patio for about 2 hrs shivering but still mostly awake but with severe vertigo. It's about 35 F so pretty soon I realize I need to get inside. I stumble and crawl in and then suffer for another 30 minutes with disabling vertigo. I'm by the door and it's open so I scoot myself over across the room and finally someone gives me a shitty little blanket and I stop shivering so bad. Next thing I know about 2 AM PG's sister comes over and crawls under the blanket and I deduce she is not just trying to warm me up. Right in the middle of the damn living room with 9
misandrists! Hory Herr! I roll over prone to protect myself and finally the hostess runs her off with "That's not COOL!". Then from about 2AM to 4AM there are these long hair types (like a Journey band or something). I'm still shivering and trying to sleep and then about 4AM PG's sister comes back out and tries to attack me again but this time the hostess comes out and accuses us of doing the nasty. Right in the damn living room? She says she is going to call Uber so I just stumble out to my car and lock the door but now it's 32F. Finally about 4:50 the vertigo had subsided so I drove home. About *:30 SG calls and asks to be picked up so I go back. She comes out crying. It seems all the misandrists have told her PG's sister and I were doing
it. This includes some who were partly comatose themselves and one that was 3 feet away from me on the couch.

I look her straight in the face and tell her it didn't happen. Here was the argument that turned the tide:

1. I was so nauseated if the Swedish Women's Beach Volleyball team offered to give a buff massage I wouldn't have been able to join them
2. Date rape is wrong. Especially if you are the victim
3. I'm married.

Next year, if Phil Shane is still alive I am going to listen to Tom Jones songs.

[Cap Mandrake]

Admiral Lord SPrior is entertaining the Vice Mother-in-Law of Bengal so we take a break for a few days.

[Cap Mandrake]

We got in trouble with the Japs for sending more than one squadron over Koumac at night. Evidently, this was a house rule.

Quite a venial sin because they never did much damage but it was in the house rules so it is stopped.

Instead, this is the plan:

--One squadron B-17's at night over Koumac. They others (including some LB-30's ad medium bombers) attack 4th Div at Noumea
--Two separate task forces will bombard Koumac tonight (total of 3 BB's)
--3 BB's remain at Noumea. AE at Noumea can rear 1 1/2 BB per day. AKE's on their way from Auckland.
--SBD's move from Newcastle to Port Kembla
--KB unspotted for 3 days although there was extra CAP at Koumac 3 d ago.
--Landing force for La Foa is circumnavigating Tasmania and will have to loop quite South to
avoid Jap shipping off Newcastle.
--Another Bn will embark at Norfolk for La Foa

[desicat]

By using phrases like "venial sin" you are throwing 95% of the audience directly to Google to figure out what you are talking about. Somewhere Sister Rosita is smiling!

Crazy that someone would spike the drinks at such a small party. Next time you need to pay more attention when someone offers you a drink - did she give me a Crosby or a Cosby?