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RE: Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 2:04 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Good time for US carriers to run away

RE: Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 11:49 am
by Tom Hunter
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RE: Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:20 pm
by Cap Mandrake
[:D]
From the
Navy Times, PH, Dec 8

RE: Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:21 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Gee..I hope the whole thing wasn't just a misunderstanding.

RE: Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 7:56 pm
by Cap Mandrake
USS Chicago goes down firing
Bridge Log: USS Chicago
.....13:15 (12/07/41) Making 32 Kts on course 280, clearing channel between Pandacan and Pangutaran Is. Captain orders course to Balikapan, Borneo at flank speed via Pangutaran Passage to Sulu Sea. Crew at battle ready.
13:20 3 enemy torpedo planes sighted preparing for starboard beam attack, range 3 miles. Battle stations ordered. Captain orders turn to port , new course 100.
13:21 All starboard secondary and after main battery firing. Torpedoes in the water! Course now 145. One enemy plane destroyed.
13:22 7 new enemy planes sighted approaching from SSE, range 2 miles! AA director orders new target. Forward mains firing. Course now 115.
13:23 Torpedoes in the water bearing 280. Torpedo hit near stern! Captain orders new course of 10.
13:24 2 torpedo hits engine compartment! 1 hit near bow.
13:25 Torpedo hit amidships. Captian orders new course 80. Heavy flooding No. 2 engine compartment. Large fire building amidships. Captain orders counterflooding. Speed reduced to 25 Kts.
.......
15:40 Starboard list 18 degrees. Speed reduced to 5 Kts to aid firefighting. Tarakan reports enemy CV operating in Sulu Sea 80 nm SSW our position.
15:45 Chief engineer reports damage likely fatal. Capatain orders course for Jolo Harbor with aim of beaching the Chicago in the tidal flats to effect repairs. Asiatic Fleet HQ informed of our intentions.
16:02 Asiatic Fleet HQ reports Jolo under attack.
.......
23:05 Course 120 speed, 8kts, 12 nm WNW of Jolo Harbor. Fires continue. Gunflashes bearing 170.
23:06 2 enemy APD sighted bearing 170, range 7000 yds. A and B battery firing independantly. C battery inactive due to powder magazine flooding. One APD burning. Range now 6000 yds.
23:07 Enemy APD explodes. Enemy AK under fire from 2 secondary batteries. Chicago now down 11 degrees by bow. Speed now 5 kts. Enemy vessles making smoke and retreating to SSE.
23:10 Firing ceased. Flooding forward powder magazine ordered to reduce risk from fire. Captain orders abandon ship. Crew ordered to make for Jolo.

RE: Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)
Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 3:27 pm
by Cap Mandrake
From the
SUNY Stonybrook Ledger, Dec 8, 1941

RE: Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)
Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 9:18 pm
by Cap Mandrake
The bad guys are really hammering the PI. Its a regular "britzkrieg"

The Aukalnd Conference
Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:04 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Is this tax deductible?

OK, OK, enough already!
Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 3:11 pm
by Cap Mandrake
The steamroller gets dented a bit

Will the real KB please stand up
Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 8:31 pm
by Cap Mandrake
After strutting around defiantly in Hawaiian waters for 2 days, the KB finally lowers the real boom on Dec 9. The slow USN BB's had little choice but to wait for the attack in port.

RE: Will the real KB please stand up
Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 3:23 pm
by Cap Mandrake
The Kaga stopped to ask directions to Pearl Harbor. The PT boat raids never found the KB and the LBA at Pearl never summoned the gumption to attack after getting their haircut on Dec 7. 3 or 4 F4F-3's at Midway essentially stopped the tired pilots of the KB from doing any damaged at Midway.

The other "Slaughter Pen"
Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 5:17 pm
by Cap Mandrake
The Ryujo's Kates, Bettys from Formosa and Davao and a few subs slaughter Allied ships trying to evacuate from the PI. Ships going West across the South China Sea fare no better as they are struck from Saigon.

RE: The other "Slaughter Pen"
Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 5:19 pm
by Terminus
Yikes! What a shooting gallery!
RE: The other "Slaughter Pen"
Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 7:23 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Yikes! What a shooting gallery!
Yes. They are leading quite a skillful charge in the PI. Perhaps only 1/3 of the ships at Manila will make it out. We had to create an emergency field at Tomini in the Celebes to get fighters squadrons out of the PI.
The Sulawese Sea has been a busy place. We have had a few successes with hit and run surface raids and PT boats and some hits on transports from Dutch Martin bombers and Hudsons. They will be shipping some iron back to be salvaged and some will undoubtedly sink but hasn't shown up on the sips sunk list yet.

What of His Majesty's ships?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 2:23 pm
by Cap Mandrake
The South China Sea has become a dangerous place for Allied shpis

RE: What of His Majesty's ships?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 2:51 pm
by Cap Mandrake
It might be Junyo, or it could be a misidentified CS

Oh..yeah..China
Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 3:29 pm
by Cap Mandrake
The Emperor's boys get spanked

Dont worry, you are being posted to Victoria Point
Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 4:18 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Action in SE Asia

Calling Hong Kong
Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:15 pm
by Cap Mandrake
If I were Canadian, I think I might be a bit angry that British commanders sent green Canadian units to Hong Kong in Nov 1941 despite a decision that the island was indefensible.

Not to worry...at least not yet
Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 4:33 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Situation in Malaya Dec 7-10
