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The carriers. Victorious is in drydock at Colombo. Essex just left Panama and is tasked for the Kuriles operation along with Santee and Anzio.

Yorktown available at Manado but her escorts are off fighting.

Wasp and two busted up CVE's are at Manado repairing system damage then they have to go to Sydney.

Forgot about Barnes (CVE) which just had a AAA upgrade at Pearl.

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What about those slackers in Seattle? [:'(]

Do you mean Santee and Anzio or all the restricted infantry lolling about? Quite a few of the troops for the Kuriles/Sakhalin invasion will emabark at Seatlle and Victoria. The CVE's will go with them, probably one with a squadron of P-47's with their wings on (to fly off to any field we seize) and the rest of the deck space with F6F's.
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It is a common misconception that the Breastaurant idea is only aimed at male patrons.

Here is the Aguilera2DD without blast shield in action.

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The carriers. Victorious is in drydock at Colombo. Essex just left Panama and is tasked for the Kuriles operation along with Santee and Anzio.

Yorktown available at Manado but her escorts are off fighting.

Wasp and two busted up CVE's are at Manado repairing system damage then they have to go to Sydney.

Forgot about Barnes (CVE) which just had a AAA upgrade at Pearl.

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What about those slackers in Seattle? [:'(]

Do you mean Santee and Anzio or all the restricted infantry lolling about? Quite a few of the troops for the Kuriles/Sakhalin invasion will emabark at Seatlle and Victoria. The CVE's will go with them, probably one with a squadron of P-47's with their wings on (to fly off to any field we seize) and the rest of the deck space with F6F's.
That smacks of planning! Perhaps you'll reconsider.
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What about those slackers in Seattle? [:'(]

Do you mean Santee and Anzio or all the restricted infantry lolling about? Quite a few of the troops for the Kuriles/Sakhalin invasion will emabark at Seatlle and Victoria. The CVE's will go with them, probably one with a squadron of P-47's with their wings on (to fly off to any field we seize) and the rest of the deck space with F6F's.
That smacks of planning! Perhaps you'll reconsider.

This is neurophysiology in action, the natural proclivity of the human brain to see order when there is none.

The "Big Dipper" isn't real either. Just a bummer. Sorry.
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Looks like the latest batch of mine detectors at Ramree Island are defective

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I hope you will refrain from bringing into the WWII(c) discussions any conversations involving the Matronly Lesbian in Unfashionable Pantsuit. Current affairs are fair game.

Ms. Aguilera2DD could definitely get a waitressing gig at Twin Peaks, a Breastaurant that I've been told has better food than Hooters, if her singing career hits the skids.
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A mine is a terrible thing to waste.

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****************June 9, 1943(c)***************


Horycrappo-jima and Okinawa: JJ sets one of their torps to run shallow and nicks one of our LST's.

Sub attack near Ishigaki at 89,68

Japanese Ships
SS I-36, hits 1

Allied Ships
LST-457, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
LCM 592B
LCM 532D
SC-630

Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


I think North Carolina hit a fireworks factory or some such thing.

Night Naval bombardment of Naha at 95,66

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A2 Val: 17 damaged
D3A2 Val: 1 destroyed on ground
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged
Ki-30 Ann: 10 damaged
Ki-30 Ann: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
BB North Carolina

Japanese ground losses:
110 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Manpower hits 1
Fires 3834
Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 9
Port hits 3
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 3


Evidnetry, Wichita and San Francisco are dazzled by the light show..they do rough up a couple of squads of 48th Div

Night Naval bombardment of Naha at 95,66

Allied Ships
CA Wichita
CA San Francisco
CLAA Juneau

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

SOC-1 Seagull acting as spotter for CA Wichita
CA Wichita firing at 48th Division
CA San Francisco firing at 48th Division
CLAA Juneau firing at 48th Division
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P-47 sweep over Naha. CAP is one plane. North Carolina really messed up the bad guys. This good news for our daytime air raids.

Morning Air attack on Naha , at 95,66

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1

Allied aircraft
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses


Lilly's (probably from Nago) go after the retreating CA's. They aren't very good at it. Not sure what happened to freindly LRCAP.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Naha at 95,66

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-IIa Lily x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-IIa Lily: 3 damaged
Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CA Wichita
CA San Francisco


The B-17's got the day off, but the B-24's from Aparri where quite effective. Here is just a sample raid.

Morning Air attack on Naha , at 95,66

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 62 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 21 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 9
B-24D1 Liberator x 10
P-40K Warhawk x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-32 Mary: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-30 Ann: 2 destroyed on ground
D3A1 Val: 2 destroyed on ground
D3A2 Val: 1 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 9
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Here's one I launched earlier:



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Polaris of some description?


Looks like my wife when I brought home my boat...and then told her I bought it [:D]
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Here's one I launched earlier:



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Polaris of some description?


Looks like my wife when I brought home my boat...and then told her I bought it [:D]

Polaris A3TK
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Burma: ALSP stages a big series of RAF/USAAF raids over Rangoon. Pretty effective too. JJ picked the wrong day to rest their fighters. First wave.

Afternoon Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14

Allied aircraft
Liberator II x 7
Wellington B.X x 5
B-24D1 Liberator x 24
P-40K Warhawk x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed on ground
G3M3 Nell: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator II: 1 damaged
Wellington B.X: 2 damaged
Wellington B.X: 1 destroyed by flak
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
P-40K Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 11
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That has to be a fairly demoralizing turns for the Japan-mens.

We sent some subs to the shallow water off Saigon and they were attacked immediately. Probably some good air search there.
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Polaris A3TK

I googled it. An extended range Polaris with 2 warheads and "penetration aids" because the Russkis had selfishly tried to protect Moscow with 100 ABM's.


Did they ever let you take the "penetration aids" to local pubs to improve the chance of success?
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Are you suggesting that the ladies at those pubs use ABMs?
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Did they ever let you take the "penetration aids" to local pubs to improve the chance of success?

A few sticky greens is the best "penetration aid". Although the "ladies" of Helensburgh seemed to have developed their own defences against such things.
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Did they ever let you take the "penetration aids" to local pubs to improve the chance of success?

A few sticky greens is the best "penetration aid". Although the "ladies" of Helensburgh seemed to have developed their own defences against such things.


Urban Dictionary

1. sticky green


Weed,dope,mary jane*, marijuana

Man i need some of that sticky green stuff




*This expression has not been used since Joe Friday used it on Dragnet. Most people will not know what the Hell you are talking about.
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Did they ever let you take the "penetration aids" to local pubs to improve the chance of success?

A few sticky greens is the best "penetration aid". Although the "ladies" of Helensburgh seemed to have developed their own defences against such things.
American youth would think you were referring to marijuana if you asked for sticky green. If you asked an American youth for Crème de menthe you'd probably just get a confused look unless you asked a particularly poofy youth.
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Air losses. We lost 4 B-24/Liberators, couple of Wellingtons and 3 B-25's. **** happens.

We broke a lot of stuff too.

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*********************NorPac HQ, Dutch Harbor*************


Adm. Theobald: Right, so the codeword for the Kuriles, what do we have?

Intel guy: Sir, in keeping with the new guidelines for random codeword assignment for security reasons, we have drawn a random adjective and noun from the Pentagon list.

Adm. Theobald: And?

Intel guy: It's "Sticky Green" sir.
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