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

[Cap Mandrake]

JJ spots a laden AK trying to hide at Dinagat.

Afternoon Air attack on Dinagat , at 81,87

Weather in hex: Light cloud

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

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 5
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 10

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAK Potter, Bomb hits 2, on fire

Port hits 2

[Cap Mandrake]

Many sorties over Batan Is..does this mean they are coming back?

[Cap Mandrake]

Why, yes, yes it does.

Pre-Invasion action off Batan Island (85,70)

15 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAP Kongo Maru
DD Hishu

Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

GET 'EM BOYS! YEEEEHAAAW

Amphibious Assault at Batan Island (85,70)

TF 98 troops unloading over beach at Batan Island, 85,70

Japanese ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

[Cap Mandrake]

And on the seventh day...they rested..

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 137 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6

Defending force 529 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 24

Assault collapses, attacking force wiped out

Japanese ground losses:
161 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
89th Nav Gd /1

Defending units:
4th Marine Rgt /1

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

And on the seventh day...they rested..

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 137 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6

Defending force 529 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 24

Assault collapses, attacking force wiped out

Japanese ground losses:
161 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
89th Nav Gd /1

Defending units:
4th Marine Rgt /1

Actually, they made crab pots and baited them with the fresh bait . . .

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

And on the seventh day...they rested..

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 137 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6

Defending force 529 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 24

Assault collapses, attacking force wiped out

Japanese ground losses:
161 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
89th Nav Gd /1

Defending units:
4th Marine Rgt /1

Actually, they made crab pots and baited them with the fresh bait . . .

Was this in John Wayne's Back to Batan (sic)? [:D]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

And on the seventh day...they rested..

Actually, they made crab pots and baited them with the fresh bait . . .

Was this in John Wayne's Back to Batan (sic)? [:D]

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy.

[Cap Mandrake]

Is this the same Naval Guard unit? I can't remember.

[Cap Mandrake]

It's a terrible movie. [:)]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

It's a terrible movie. [:)]

Which can be safely said about most movies made during a war. [;)]

Below, the PI troops muster for a counterattack.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

It's a terrible movie. [:)]

Which can be safely said about most movies made during a war. [;)]

Below, the PI troops muster for a counterattack.

I don't think so, the fatigues look like camo fatigues and they did not use the green shirts back then that I am aware of.

John Wayne was a draft evader.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

It's a terrible movie. [:)]

Think I'll wait for the matinee double feature: "Back to Back to Bata(a)n"

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

It's a terrible movie. [:)]

Think I'll wait for the matinee double feature: "Back to Back to Bata(a)n"

'Back 2 Bata(a)n'!
They didn't think about sequels in those days.

[Cap Mandrake]

I once attended a party on John Wayne's former private yacht, the Wild Goose. Very elegant vessel with a narrow beam. In the head there is a brass placard that reads "Don't put anything in here that hasn't been in your mouth first"

[Cap Mandrake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmMFelRbqaI

Original engines (with retooling and new pistons of course). Hull is wood as it was a minesweeper in its early life.

[Cap Mandrake]

I knew an ENT surgeon who once said...."Money doesn't buy you happiness......but does it hurt?" [:D]

He also offered me this sage advice...."You never want your relatives to be happy when you die" [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

he would shake his finger like the otolaryngologist version of Woody Allen.

I once sent him a 4 year old patient with a strange nasopharyngeal mass that proved to be a sarcoma (cancer) [:(][:(]

So much for Woody Allen.

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmMFelRbqaI

Original engines (with retooling and new pistons of course). Hull is wood as it was a minesweeper in its early life.

Nice looking boat.[:)]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

He also offered me this sage advice...."You never want your relatives to be happy when you die" [:D]

I would amend this to, "You never want your relatives to be happy". Or even, "You never want relatives". Simplifies wills and estate planning.

[Cap Mandrake]

That is quite cynical. What if your relatives are older AND richer than you?