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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:37 am
by Cap Mandrake
Bomber fleet at Aparri. The crews are holding up but the airframes are getting tired.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:45 am
by Cap Mandrake
Medium and heavies holding up at Batan. The B-17's are understrength because 8th Air Force is hogging them.

Personally, is suspect...well...I won't say.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:48 am
by Cap Mandrake
Interestingly, the bombers at Bangkok are gone. Either they are under another peanut shell in Siam or Burma or Indochina.....or.....

Kirishima not spotted. Just 2 DD's at Shnaghai. We will be down to one BB on guard duty at Naha tomorrow.

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:54 am
by Cap Mandrake
Turns out all 3 division commanders are ashore. Must have gotten ashore on the first boat after the barrage yesterday.

Sebree, 32nd ID
Vandergrift, 1st Marine
Vasey, 8th Aus

3 glass eaters. Best we have in those uniforms.

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 10:10 am
by Cap Mandrake
Fatigue setting in for the fighters at Miyako. P-38's and Corsairs doing most of the LRCAP are holding up.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:59 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Wow..complicated turn. Decided to send 9th Marine Regt to Aparri to reform 3rd Marine Div.

6th Marine Regt and Aus. 1st Army Tank Regt will go to Naha

Mouseover recon at Palau shows DD's and E boats with now transports. Might be a surface strike group.

As a consequence, troopships and transports divert West of Mindanao.

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:06 pm
by jeffk3510
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Bomber fleet at Aparri. The crews are holding up but the airframes are getting tired.

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Late were bomber pools are so slim...

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:23 pm
by Cap Mandrake
I have been pretty happy with the Consolidated folks. [:)]When the B-24D1 line was turned on we were able to convert some old B-17 squadrons.


There aren't enough medium bombers to fill out all the squadrons floating around with A-20's and Hudsons

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:30 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Does the B-24D1 turn off when the B-24J line turns on?

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:53 pm
by jeffk3510
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Does the B-24D1 turn off when the B-24J line turns on?

I don't have a clue.. I just know the bomber pools are always light..

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:02 pm
by witpqs
The B-24D1 factories convert to B-24J factories. So, for B-24J you get replacement + production.

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:11 pm
by Mike McCreery
ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Bomber fleet at Aparri. The crews are holding up but the airframes are getting tired.

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Late were bomber pools are so slim...

You say late war when it is only June of 43... LOL!


RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:24 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: witpqs

The B-24D1 factories convert to B-24J factories. So, for B-24J you get replacement + production.
Adding to the above:
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You will get 38 + 12 + the converted B-24D1 factories (15) = 65 per month.

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 1:22 pm
by Cap Mandrake
******Idyllic seaside villa near Karenko*********


<two lovers lie naked under sheets...what?...yes, they are of the opposite sex...this is a family thing..and its 1943 too. The woman strokes the man's back>

Tomiko: You have-ah much hair, Yossarian-san. Rike Sapporo monkey.

Naked hirsute man fortunately mostly under sheets: Me? Naah, you should see my uncle Abe. One time we went to the Smithsonian and they asked him to stay for studies.

Tomiko: You funny, Yossarian-san. Tomiko rove Yossarian.

Naked hirsute man fortunately mostly under sheets: <turns toward her> And Yossarian rove Tomiko <Phone rings...he answers>

Yossarian...

Film? I'm not flying in there for film. Can't you send it on an LST or something?.....

They guy is a ******* prima donna if you ask me. He has nothing of value to me..........

Medals? What do I want with medals you crazy SOB? I'm officially dead..........

Posthumous? Milo, you crazy SOB, that is only if you get killed DURING the mission, not before it......

Oh Hell, alright, I'll do it. Just make sure one of the crazy Marines doesn't shoot me down. <hangs up>

Tomiko, you ever been to Okinawa?

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:23 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Kanga Force Bn is embarking at Batan Is. for Miri. There appear to be only Korea-mens in diapers there.

They will suffer disruption but might still take it. It's too far for an air drop by C-47 from Puerto Princesa.


Miri is a level 6 airfield (buildable to 8) within bomber range of Palembang.

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:44 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Front balcony and top floor balcony now have reinforced joists and new plywood. The thing had that new plywood smell until one of the dogs inaugurated the upper balcony with a..well..you know.

The back balcony has some dry rot on a support beam so we have to put in a second beam to increase support. Broody annoying because we hardly use the things.

The front arbor, when you chip off the stucco is just a rectangular collection of sawdust. Current pran is to demo the upper part and stick a couple of beams across real quick and hope Frau Braun doesn't notice.

I am not giving those *-***** another $50 just to wait for them to approve it. I have a track record of making bad decisions about these kind of things but it is beyond my control.

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:44 pm
by ny59giants
Does the B-24D1 turn off when the B-24J line turns on?


The 15 factory worth of D1 should upgrade to the J model. So you should go from 48/month of the D1 to 65/month for the J models.

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:57 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Does the B-24D1 turn off when the B-24J line turns on?


The 15 factory worth of D1 should upgrade to the J model. So you should go from 48/month of the D1 to 65/month for the J models.

Huzzah! We bomb 3 Japan-mens cities every night.

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:37 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I have a track record of making bad decisions about these kind of things but it is beyond my control.

Is it? Couldn't you just wait for the approval? Do you mean that you can't control yourself, you're genetically predisposed to "build, build, build" or did you mean that you don't care to control yourself in order to make a point?

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:19 pm
by Mike McCreery
It is sometimes better to ask forgiveness than permission.