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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:05 pm
by Cap Mandrake
THE NEW SPITFIRES ARE HERE! THE NEW SPITFIRES ARE HERE!............Just kidding. 32 brand new Spitfire
Vc sitting around in Cape Town and we can't use them for 6 1/2 months.[:@]

RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:11 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Are you short on pilots or deliberately keeping the number of pilots in a squadron below maximum?
How did a Hurricane squadron with 1 operational aircraft and 14 pilots get a fatigue factor of 16? Too many female admirers?

Sadly, no. The survivors of No. 242 Sqdrn spent the night packing up the lockers of their missing squadron mates.[:(]
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:13 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: John B.
Because Goofy walks on two legs and Pluto on four.
Hey, that's pretty good. I once had a 5 year old tell me when asked that Disney riddle, "Dude, Pluto has an owner" [:D]
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:16 pm
by Cap Mandrake
FAM: <asking about symptoms of a 4 year old with fever yesterday> Does anything hurt?
4 year old: Yeah, my torso. [:D][:D][:D]
Tuned out he had pneumonia.
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:18 pm
by witpqs
Pluto does talk. He's just too far away to hear. [8D]
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:12 pm
by desicat
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: desicat
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
************Disney mind teasers...one in an occasional series************
Everyone knows about Sleeping Beauty and her famously long hair but did the curtain match the drapes? In other words, was her pubic hair fantastically long as well? I watched the movie 3 times. They don't tell you.
Rapunzel may bring tears to your eyes?
This is true but I don't think she was a Disney property.
Tangled.
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:16 pm
by anarchyintheuk
Selective mutism. Either that or his hero is Bartleby the Scrivener.
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:49 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: witpqs
Pluto does talk. He's just too far away to hear. [8D]
I heard that since his namesake was downgraded to a planetoid he isn't speaking to anyone ...

RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:55 pm
by Cap Mandrake
[:D][:D] I have to admit these are MUCH better answers than I usually get from a 4 or 5 year old! They never use literary references either.
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:05 pm
by Cap Mandrake
I have always thought Pluto got screwed.
1) He has to take orders from a mouse who would need a backpack to "curb his dog"
2) Then he gets downgraded to a planetoid even though he has 5 moons
3) Then someone postulates there is another, larger planet outside the orbit of Pluto
CAUTION: SEVERE NERD WARNING
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/ ... lar-system
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:09 pm
by witpqs
Hey, we ain't your average simple-minded folk! [:D]
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 12:15 am
by John B.
Or even ice volcanoes (which sounds like something from a bad LSD trip).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/plu ... eb759ee7be
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:15 pm
by Lecivius
"Or even ice volcanoes (which sounds like something from a bad LSD trip)"
man, I've had worse trips on poor Tequila [:D]
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:26 pm
by John B.
I'm afraid to even ask. [:D]
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:32 pm
by zuluhour
What's going on in the rear area?

RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:12 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: zuluhour
What's going on in the rear area?
Do you mean like Seattle, Hawaii, the Phillipines?
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:24 pm
by Cap Mandrake
****************************March 24, 1942(e)************************
Jap BB's show up to take out Port Kembla airfield. They crush three poor AKL's trying to resupply NSW on the way in and out
Night Naval bombardment of Port Kembla at 90,168
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 destroyed on ground
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed on ground
Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
BB Hiei
DD Yayoi
DD Kisaragi
DD Amagiri
DD Ayanami
Allied ground losses:
227 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Heavy Industry hits 1
Resources hits 1
Manpower hits 1
Fires 106
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 13
Port hits 11
Port fuel hits 2.
Ouch
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:26 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Bang, Ding, Ow!
Morning Air attack on 2nd A/Car Regiment, at 91,163 (Tamworth)
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 58
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
158 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 30 (1 destroyed, 29 disabled)
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:27 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Bang, Ding, Ow, again. US tank Bn gets punished.
Morning Air attack on 754th Tank Battalion, at 88,166 (Katoomba)
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 50
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 10 damaged
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 35 (5 destroyed, 30 disabled))
RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back from Olongapo
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:43 pm
by Cap Mandrake
At Melbourne, our SBD jockeys sleep in again. Terribly disappointing after special ordering new 2nd Marine Air Wing patches and coffee mugs and everything. Once the General gets back to Adelaide, we will fly in the entire 2nd Marine Air Wing Hq boys and I don't think the general is going to be too happy.
JJ brings in more fighters. [:(]
Afternoon Air attack on Geelong , at 81,170
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 38
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 21
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 1
Kittyhawk IA x 14
B-17E Fortress x 22
P-40E Warhawk x 36
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed
Kittyhawk IA: 3 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 10 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 6 destroyed
Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Runway hits 13