Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice)

[Canoerebel]

10/16/44

Battle of Singkawang: Dave struck so fast he pre-empted my plan to strike KB. Fortuantely, KB mostly gutted itself, leaving the Allies in a stronger position to pursue further, deeper offensive ops.

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth
Doing the Lords work there Dan. A big change for everyone but best for all I'm sure. Did the same for my mom and my mother in law. Your a good man. Now here is an interesting question. Did mom have a TV? If will there now be a TV in Casa Dan? [:)]

Thanks for the pick-me-up words, John. Much appreciated.

I didn't make it clear that we moved mom to assisted living nearby, so she indeed has her television. Today she was watching Mayberry RFD and Gunsmoke. She is heavily dependent on a wheelchair so that there's no way for her to use the little bathrooms in our house.

While accessing Mom's paperwork today to open a bank account and get her admitted to the assisted living residence, I came across paperwork noting that today is the 41st anniversary of her divorce from my dad. That was a titanic disruption in the peace and wellbeing of our household, when I was a teenager. It devastated my mom and my younger sister. I was 17 and getting ready to move on to college, so of course it didn't affect me at all. Or so I thought. In later years, as I had children and gave them advice and counseled and comforted, I would so often think how much I regret that my dad wasn't there to do such things for me. A father can be a fount of wisdom, encouragement and important facts. I didn't see dad from 1978 until sometime in the late 1990s!

[Canoerebel]

10/17/44

Battle of Singkawang: Having committed his air power on the 16th, Dave commits his CL/DD and DD TFs on the 17th, with an assist from LBA (KB vanished). His guys got in some licks because Dave is clever and had a well-conceived plan. Once again, however, the losses he suffered outweighed his gains by a considerable margin, and what he did accomplish had no measurable affect on the impending invasion of Miri.

This is most of the most important altercations of the day.

[Lovejoy]

Great Goggerty! Does your opponent have any NavBomb/NavTorp trained pilots left?

Well done on the Great Borneo Turkey Shoot! Even factoring in FOW, those are significant losses, and your previous attrition of his strike groups have to be hurting his pilot quality while boosting your own fighter pilots. Those ship losses are gonna hurt too, particularly if you get to 1945 and are operating right off the Home Islands.

[Canoerebel]

I'm losing merchantmen and he's losing DDs. The points exchange is probably roughly equal but the affect on long term fighting ability should favor the Allies.

[Canoerebel]

10/18/44 and 10/19/44

Invasion of Miri: The enemy having expended itself in the skirmishing near Singakawang, they pull back to regroup. DS & The Herd press forward to D-Day at Miri, which goes well.

The fleet will spend a few days at Miri before retiring to Soerabaja to drop off damaged ships and receive freshly repaired ones, like Enterprise. What then?

Two possibilities: Proceed more linearly with an invasion to isolated Singapore, or non-linearly to strike much deeper. Big armies are fully prepped for both, and both will take place. Their order is the only question. Leaning non-linear.

[JohnDillworth]

If Singapore is a possibility then take it. Seems dock space is pretty popular these days and the shipyard is a good one. Unless it will take months. then pass

[T Rav]

CB,

You seem to be a good man, and you have a great AAR (as always).

Thanks for both,
T Rav

[T Rav]

Meant to say a great man and a good AAR... But now I'm quibbling.

[Canoerebel]

Well thank you, T Rav. Yer makin' me blush, but your words are appreciated.

[Canoerebel]

10/20/44 to 10/24/44

South China Sea: With things at Miri in hand, DS retired to Soerabaja. There it will swap damaged carriers for newly-repaired ones. Ships will refuel etc. Aircraft will draw replacements and additional pilots. And troops will load for The Non-Linear Option, to get underway in about four days.

Miri may fall tomorrow.

As DS made its way home, enemy DDs came calling but gut punished. Same with enemy subs, well-positioned bweteeen the tip of Borneo and the tip of Sumatra.

[Canoerebel]

10/25/44 to 10/27/44

South China Sea: Miri fell, DS returned to port, and I made a snap decision to immediately proceed with the Linear Option. Consequently, DS spent just a day in port before moving out. Target: Malaya.

The paratroops jumpstarted the process by taking Kuantan.

I expect Dave to throw everything, bolstered this time by Singapore and Johore (and Saigon and Cam Ranh) airfields. It should be a bloody affair but it's probably better to seek battle now, while KB is still trying to replace pilots lost in the most recent Turkey Shoot.

[JohnDillworth]

Blink twice if the non-linear operation was Formosa

[Canoerebel]

It wasn't, though that is on the eventual-radar.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

Blink twice if the non-linear operation was Formosa

3 targets sounds like the Bonins.

[CaptBeefheart]

Hainan Island and vicinity?

Cheers,
CB

[Canoerebel]

10/28/44 to 10/30/44

South China Sea: DS slows down to receive late-departing transport TFs. Dave got strong detection today, so DS will convert to an offensive configuration and change course to near Singkawang. Hopefully, Dave is expecting a move towards Kuantan since Allied paratroops took it and he countered with a landing by an armored regiment.

Allied night 4EB hammered Singapore airfield. Somewhere between 50 and 100 bombers in all. That's the first raid that might've been significantly larger than the sort of self-imposed 50. But it felt right. Dave had more than 500 LBA at Singers and Johore - perhaps more than 600. It's late in the war and he should be on notice about night bombing. He should have lots of flak and night fighters, or he should disperse his aircraft more, or he shouldn't take a big risk like this.

[Canoerebel]

A video I did today for a class in tribute to those who served in the US (and a few UK) armed forces in WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xzv_wDV20

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

A video I did today for a class in tribute to those who served in the US (and a few UK) armed forces in WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xzv_wDV20

A moving and fitting tribute CR! The only suggestion I have is that the song, song writer and singer should be credited at the end.

[Canoerebel]

Thanks, BBfanboy. I'll try to edit the video (I don't know if that's possible). But the info is given in the opening YouTube screen info box.