From here to...well...it SEEMS like an eternity

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

I was in high school when he was elected governor of Mass. A Jesuit Priest at school told the joke about a Greek mother trying to toilet train her son, who wasn't going, so she admonished him "dukakis, dukakis!"

Ahh..those Jesuits are fun to have at a party. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

**********10th Air Force HQ, Dacca, 18:40, October 27, 1942*********

G2 Guy: Sir, we have indications of new enemy air acitivity at both Mandalay and Lashio.

Gen. Chennault: Hmmm. I suspect they will try the Tony sweep over the battle area again. They could be transports but I doubt it.

G2 Guy: Should we call off TacAir for tomorrow, Sir?

Gen. Chennault: Absolutely not. The fate of 2nd Division hangs in the balance. I want maximal effort again. It is shame the 23rd is in China but that can't be helped. The boys of the 24th will have to carry the water. Notify 224 Group.

[Cap Mandrake]

At 08:30 on October 28, 30 P-40's meet 47 Tonys over the Mandalay/Myitkyina rail line. It is an even fight, but enough Tonys remain to threaten the streams of RAF bombers following behind. Hundreds of sorties are flown on both sides, Allied bombers from Imphal and Ledo and Myitkyina stream forward to bomb the 3 Japanese divisions and armored columns. Japanese bombers from Rangoon strike 2nd Division. This looks like the big show.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

So whatever happened to the femme fatale or are you avoiding the question?[:'(][:D]

I can't remember her name. I have a story idea but I can't remember her cover name [:D]

Ah - this one - as first seen back on page 11

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According to Yossarian - her name was Anne - with an "e"... he fell in love with her back on page 12.


EDIT: Her real name is revealed as Dagmar "Saltpeter" Wynter, as revealed on page 14 when Milo is arrested for espionage.

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i'm still betting she moved to Idaho, and her later granddaugher is even now stalking our AAR... [:'(]

[tabpub]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

So whatever happened to the femme fatale or are you avoiding the question?[:'(][:D]

I can't remember her name. I have a story idea but I can't remember her cover name [:D]

Ah - this one - as first seen back on page 11

fb.asp?m=1246422

According to Yossarian - her name was Anne - with an "e"... he fell in love with her back on page 12.


EDIT: Her real name is revealed as Dagmar "Saltpeter" Wynter, as revealed on page 14 when Milo is arrested for espionage.

fb.asp?m=1284601

i'm still betting she moved to Idaho, and her later granddaugher is even now stalking our AAR... [:'(]

Due to the above example of devotion to duty to the extreme, I hereby nominate Bob for the position of Editor in Chief of the Eternity Thread.
Can I get a second?

[FeurerKrieg]

I second the motion.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

We are also quite sure that "mindedly" is not a proper English wor... <POOF>

I'm not sure what happened there. Did your head explode or did you vanish in a puff of logic? [:)]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

I was in high school when he was elected governor of Mass. A Jesuit Priest at school told the joke about a Greek mother trying to toilet train her son, who wasn't going, so she admonished him "dukakis, dukakis!"

[:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: spence

It looks to me like the "enlargement" showing Mike Dukakis has the head twisted somewhat to the left of the tank commander's in the "original" (go back a page).

Probably a "dirty trick"

Something makes me think Mandrake didnt vote for him. [&:]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

I second the motion.

I third that....can something be thirdededed? [&:]

[FeurerKrieg]

No sure - but people can be drawn and quartered.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

No sure - but people can be drawn and quartered.

i'll pass on the drawing and quartering... [X(] [:-]

[Cap Mandrake]

3 full Jap divisions, 2 regts of heavy artillery and four armoured regts assault the 2nd Inf on the rail line. This time, the absence of 7th Armoured is felt acutely. Even so, enemy losses are heavy. Nearly 500 Jap tanks pursue the retreating 2nd Inf Northward. Looks like the monsoonal Allied onteroffensive is over.

[Nemo121]

I'll do the quartering but I'm no good at art. Can someone else draw him? [8D]

[Cap Mandrake]

***********With 251 Coy, RE, 2 mi North of the Mandalay/Myitkyina railway, 18:20, October 28, 1942************

Sgt. Bonebreak: <sitting atop the command Bren carrier) Sir, it's Brigade. We are ordered to prepare postions to repel an enemy armoured attack within the next few minutes.

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: Blast! <stands up from a promising excavation> Right, bring up the 6-pounders then. I want one just where the trail bends there and the second at the edge of this clearing. They are coming for the fossils boys! We shant let them have them! <he stands atop a fallen ficus tree> For your God! For your King! For PALEONTOLOGY! YEEHAW!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Nemo121

I'll do the quartering but I'm no good at art. Can someone else draw him? [8D]

At long last, sir, have you no shame?[:'(]

[Cap Mandrake]

After the heavy air losses of the 28th, Chennault has forgotten to take his Ritalin again and orders a "maximum effort" on the Mandalay airfield, the likely base for the Tonys surging into Northern Burma. There is no CAP over Mandalay on the 28th, a situation which is unlikely to be repeated on the 29th. The hard-pressed boys of the 24th FG will simply have to sweep the area first.

20 P-40's ecounter over 60 Tonys [X(] They perform well. downing 21 to the loss of 13 P-40's but the remaining Tonys beat up the B-25's and 17's coming in from Dacca at 10,000 ft. One does wonder how many Tonys he has left. Despite the American bomber losses, the airfield is hit pretty hard (8 Tonys are destroyed on the ground) and is evacuated the next morning. Don't tell anyone but I think the 10th Air Force is going to need a rest.

[DuckofTindalos]

Especially don't tell Chennault. He'll rupture himself![X(][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Time for Burma Corps to get back behind the fortifications of Myitkynia.

[Cap Mandrake]

Confirmed Japanese sub losses through end of October, 1942. The air boys are doing their fair share.

Look particulary at RO66 lost off of Aukland to a 250 lb bomb [X(] Could it be? Did the Professor's ad hoc "Retarded Bomb" do the job?