Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

very little enemy movement observed in the ABDA area, 2 small units land in Malaya but just sit on the beach stealing all the deck chairs.

Bloody Asiatics! No sense of decorum. That's what I say.

Inscrutable too.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Business as usual at Raffles.

Easy now. Can't you chaps at least keep the Bombay Sapphire in the dining room? You will offend the locals and we will need more garrison units at Singers.

[Cap Mandrake]

*****Pacific Fleet signals station, Hawaii, 04:20, Dec 8, 1941******


<broadcast in the clear on shortwave against policy>


"Th.th.th.this is Wi.i.i.lson co.coc.coast watcher on Starbucks Island. Ca.a.a.an you s.s.s.end some slee.ee.eeping pills....."

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*****Pacific Fleet signals station, Hawaii, 04:20, Dec 8, 1941******


<broadcast in the clear on shortwave against policy>


"Th.th.th.this is Wi.i.i.lson co.coc.coast watcher on Starbucks Island. Ca.a.a.an you s.s.s.end some slee.ee.eeping pills....."

Wouldn't he get a faster response (and better after sales service) if he asked M & M Enterprises directly?

Alfred

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Alfred


Wouldn't he get a faster response (and better after sales service) if he asked M & M Enterprises directly?

Alfred

I think it is fair to say whoever either volunteered or was assigned coastwatcher duty for Starbuck Island (free espresso aside) may not be the sharpest tool in the shed.

[Cap Mandrake]

******Clark Field, Luzon, 13:50, Dec 7, 1941******


War Plan Orange Compliance Officer: Major, it says right here on page 12..<looks at WPO document>.."..USAFFE shall destroy or render unserviceable the enemy airfields on Formosa via the application of offensive air power."


Maj. Landry, CO, 30th BS(H): With two Goddmaned serviceable aircraft? Decorum prevents me from saying what you should properly do with War Plan Orange. Now, if you will excuse me, we are bugging out to Darwin.

[Cap Mandrake]

*******AA position aboard Ushio, steaming west past Kure Atoll, 40 m W of Midway, 09;20, Dec 8, 1941*******


The crew are in good spirits after a bombardment of Midway with a second destroyer on the 7th. This was of little military significance but the impact on morale can scarcely be understated. Suddenly, there is a cry from amidships, "Unidentified aircraft dead astern!" The crew of the 25 mm mount immediately train their gun aft. Indeed, the form of 3 very ungainly aircraft can be seen. They seem to be headed for Ushio.

1st gunner: Should we shoot?

2nd gunner: No, they are too ugly to be American planes. The Americans would never build such a thing. Dutch perhaps?

1st gunner: Dutch? We are thousands of miles froom the nearest Dutch territory. French?

2nd gunner: What would French aircraft be doing on Midway? They MUST be from Midway. They are too big for a carrier. Besides, I think they are perhaps too attractive for a French design.

1st gunner: Perhaps a commercial aircraft, then?

AA fire control officer: Open fire you idiots! Shoot!

[BrucePowers]

Ooh Capt Mandrake narrates the Allied and IJ sides[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Well...truth be told...at this stage of the war..Allied decryption efforts are insufficient to allow the recovery of conversations between the crewmen of 25mm AA guns on Jap destroyers at sea.

So I just made it up.

But, the more interesting question is...what were they not shooting at?

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Alfred


Wouldn't he get a faster response (and better after sales service) if he asked M & M Enterprises directly?

Alfred

I think it is fair to say whoever either volunteered or was assigned coastwatcher duty for Starbuck Island (free espresso aside) may not be the sharpest tool in the shed.

But certainly energetic.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

******Clark Field, Luzon, 13:50, Dec 7, 1941******


War Plan Orange Compliance Officer: Major, it says right here on page 12..<looks at WPO document>.."..USAFFE shall destroy or render unserviceable the enemy airfields on Formosa via the application of offensive air power."


Maj. Landry, CO, 30th BS(H): With two Goddmaned serviceable aircraft? Decorum prevents me from saying what you should properly do with War Plan Orange. Now, if you will excuse me, we are bugging out to Darwin.

The good Major should have thought of that before he lost the other 10. [:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Well...truth be told...at this stage of the war..Allied decryption efforts are insufficient to allow the recovery of conversations between the crewmen of 25mm AA guns on Jap destroyers at sea.

So I just made it up.

But, the more interesting question is...what were they not shooting at?

One vote for "whistling sh!thouse" here. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Well...truth be told...at this stage of the war..Allied decryption efforts are insufficient to allow the recovery of conversations between the crewmen of 25mm AA guns on Jap destroyers at sea.

So I just made it up.

But, the more interesting question is...what were they not shooting at?

One vote for "whistling sh!thouse" here. [:)]

Good thought..and it was uglier than homemade sin,




but I don't think it could be deployed on Midway by Dec 8 due to range limitations. Think Dec 41, USAAF.

[Chickenboy]

I'll vote for the B-18 bolo. With that droopy bubble chin, it looks like its in need of some serious plastic surgery. Must be quite a (retch-inducing) sight from above and below.

[Mynok]

Yeah, I would think the Bolo as well. Looks like possum on a stick with wings.

[USSAmerica]

Grabbing a cold brew and settling in to enjoy the show! &nbsp;

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

I'll vote for the B-18 bolo. With that droopy bubble chin, it looks like its in need of some serious plastic surgery. Must be quite a (retch-inducing) sight from above and below.

B-18 Bolo it is. I moved 4 of them to get out of the disaster that was Oahu...3 got airborne...alas...there was no way 3 Bolos with 45 experience crews were going to hit Ushio at full speed. Even worse, none of the B-18's were shot down.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Even worse, none of the B-18's were shot down.

So the crews have to show pictures of their ride to their loved ones after the war. Oh, the horror...

[Mynok]

Bolo pilots can get dates? [&:][:'(]

[Chickenboy]

I wonder what the pilots named their planes?

"Fat Chick"
"Wingman"
"Three Beer Sally"
"Eleanor Roosevelt"

[;)]