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

[Cap Mandrake]

I was severely mocked by SG for buying so much frozen food and now I am nearly out! HA! I was hoarding Marie Calender pot pies and now they are gone. Not so funny anymore, is it? I still have about 10 frozen burritos but this may not be a good choice so I am on to the canned tuna!

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I was severely mocked by SG for buying so much frozen food and now I am nearly out! HA! I was hoarding Marie Calender pot pies and now they are gone. Not so funny anymore, is it? I still have about 10 frozen burritos but this may not be a good choice so I am on to the canned tuna!

Do you still have 50 pound sacks of rice?

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso


Do you still have 50 pound sacks of rice?

I don't think my Costco sells rice in a smaller container than 50# sacks.

[Cap Mandrake]

No turn in the inbox so it's time for a travel log. SG and I went to San Diego this weekend. We stayed at the Hyatt in Mission Bay. It was fun....well....until someone gave me IT. The tower looks a little like a federal building from the 1970's but the rooms have been redone nicely. The windows could use some soundproofing. There is a bait barge full of squid and anchovies about 300 yds from the hotel and it is visited by sea lions 24 hrs a day and if they don't get their squid they complain loudly. Plus, when they are loading the boat bait tanks the sea lions get aggressive and they set off some serious explosive devices to scare them off...at 3 AM.

Pools are very nice. Drinks are $13 PLUS because of IT you have to buy food first so you buy an $18 guac with stale chips and THEN the $13 drinks.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I was severely mocked by SG for buying so much frozen food and now I am nearly out! HA! I was hoarding Marie Calender pot pies and now they are gone. Not so funny anymore, is it? I still have about 10 frozen burritos but this may not be a good choice so I am on to the canned tuna!

Do you still have 50 pound sacks of rice?

Do I look stupid? I wisely bought the 20 lb bag.

They were out of the 50 at Smart and Final

[Cap Mandrake]

Got a great deal on imported Russian toilet paper too!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I was severely mocked by SG for buying so much frozen food and now I am nearly out! HA! I was hoarding Marie Calender pot pies and now they are gone. Not so funny anymore, is it? I still have about 10 frozen burritos but this may not be a good choice so I am on to the canned tuna!

Do you still have 50 pound sacks of rice?

I think Cap is on a self-restricted diet of Bananas, Rice and Toast for the next several days.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Many womans of Oscar pirots cry in teepee tonight.

PBY pirot wives ask serves, "PBY oh why!". Oscah pirot wives ask serves, "IIb or-ah not to be."

[Cap Mandrake]

I thought about filling up two carts but my dignity got a hold of me....."Good God man! Have you no sense of shame?"

So I just crammed everything on one cart with the Russian Tp balanced on the handle.

I asked the clerk..."Do you think this is enough toilet paper for all this food"

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

JJ recons our defenses at Vinh. We have level 3 forts in a jungle hex. Whoever loses this fight is going to pay a hell of a price.

You should be fine, particularly if you supplement your defense with aerial bombardment. The IJ armored divisions are situationally useful, but 'brittle' and prone to underwhelming performance if they are fatigued/disrupted. So disrupt 'em.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I was severely mocked by SG for buying so much frozen food and now I am nearly out! HA! I was hoarding Marie Calender pot pies and now they are gone. Not so funny anymore, is it? I still have about 10 frozen burritos but this may not be a good choice so I am on to the canned tuna!

Do you still have 50 pound sacks of rice?

I think Cap is on a self-restricted diet of Bananas, Rice and Toast for the next several days.

Mandarake-san have Havarti with harapeno and saramis yestahday. It-ah was-ah dericious! But ratahr on not-ah feer so good.

[Chickenboy]

[:-]

What part of 'Physician, heal thyself' do you not get?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I was severely mocked by SG for buying so much frozen food and now I am nearly out! HA! I was hoarding Marie Calender pot pies and now they are gone. Not so funny anymore, is it? I still have about 10 frozen burritos but this may not be a good choice so I am on to the canned tuna!

Do you still have 50 pound sacks of rice?

I think Cap is on a self-restricted diet of Bananas, Rice and Toast for the next several days.

BRT diet? That is strangely suggestive of the burritos he is hoarding ...

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

After I purchased WITP-AE, that's when I learned that Queen were students of WWII.

Brian May is both a Doctor (PhD) and a knight.

The Queen is a WWII veteran.

Brian May said Astronomy is a lot more fun if you aren't an astrophysicist. You can by his Phd paper on space dust if you want some really dull reading to put you to sleep.

[Cap Mandrake]

So i get my new Chicom pulse oximeter and even when I hold my breath the O2 saturation is 94% and it goes up to 100% when I start breathing again.

Damnit! That means I have to go back to work on Tuesday!

[Cap Mandrake]

$29. Delivered the next day. Works instantly.

Oddly, of the 20 brands of oximeters listed on Amazon they are all $29.

The model I bought was also sold for $24 from another vendor but curiously they were "out of stock". Seems like obvious price fixing to me. Still, the thing works better than most of the professional models we have been using for 15 years.

[Cap Mandrake]

*********April 4, 1943(e)************

Andaman Sea: I discovered yesterday the sneaky LYB's have been flying out the defenders of Port Blair. Port Blair has been bypassed but still, we will see those LYB's in a jungle hex somewhere in the future.

Time to get the job done. They fold and then they all starve the same day. 833 Sons of Nippon that drew the short straw.


Pvt Honda: Good bye, Isuzu-san.

Pvt Isuzu: Good bye. remembah me to motha-san.

Pvt Honda: Very difficurt-ah transmission.

Pvt Isuzu-san: Perhaps Honda-san mean transition?

Pvt Honda: No, no, difficurt transmission. Difficurt to transmit rettah to motha-san.

Pvt Isuzu-san: Ooooooooooooooooh HAI! Difficurt. HAI! Rook, if both make out of wah ret us prease make car company?

Pvt Honda: HAI! Honda-san promise. Best-ah friends for evah.

Ground combat at Port Blair (46,58)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 5923 troops, 86 guns, 37 vehicles, Assault Value = 239

Defending force 833 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Allied adjusted assault: 37

Japanese adjusted defense: 5

Allied assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Port Blair !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker: leaders(-), supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
182 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Assaulting units:
45th Indian Brigade
22nd (East African) Brigade

Defending units:
2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy /1
29th JAAF AF Coy
Sasebo 3rd SNLF /1
41st Guard Bn /2

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

$29. Delivered the next day. Works instantly.

Oddly, of the 20 brands of oximeters listed on Amazon they are all $29.

The model I bought was also sold for $24 from another vendor but curiously they were "out of stock". Seems like obvious price fixing to me. Still, the thing works better than most of the professional models we have been using for 15 years.

Maybe let the FCC know. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

New Guinea/New Britain/Truk: I don't think this route south of Beetlejuice is going to work without some adjustments.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Peleliu at 91,105

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 10

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AM Daring, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
APc-36, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
APc-29, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
APc-37, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
APc-45, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb

[Cap Mandrake]

First raid of the war on Truk. A milestone. April '43. Bombers flying from Kavieng, which is building up fast.

Morning Air attack on Truk , at 112,108

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 6

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 5
B-24D1 Liberator x 9
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
H6K5 Mavis: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged
PB4Y-1 Liberator: 3 damaged

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 17