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

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

My wife says you guys have too much time on your hands...........

Bah...if I had that much time I would be playing 3 AE games....AND get the landscaping done.

[Cap Mandrake]

***************June 13, 1942******************


Fiji: The "medium cruiser force" turned out to be 3 or 4 CA's and a bunch of DD's. They bombarded Suva and were turned away without doing any damage at all. One CA was left burning. They will need the big boys to pull that off successfully. The Jap carriers struck the ships in harbor, sinking two PT boats and one small 11 Kt AO. They also hit an SS repairing damage from a previous ASW engagement, a sub tender and an AK. 5 P-40's were lost to 11 carrier planes for the LYB's (mostly Vals to flak). They can't be happy with that.

Oz: The Japs attacked again at Katherine and were sent packing at 1:2. The carrier sortie comes to naught. They will turn around and head South and thence back to Wellington.

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

My wife says you guys have too much time on your hands...........

Bah...if I had that much time I would be playing 3 AE games....AND get the landscaping done.

I made the mistake of telling my wife one of your jokes. She liked it but made the comment about time[:)]

[Itdepends]

ORIGINAL: sprior
We might let them win the Ashes.

You keeping up with the first test Sprior? I had the good fortune to be on the road and listening to the radio when Siddle got his hat trick yesterday- and it looks like England had a good showing in the bowling today. Should make for a good game.

[Onime No Kyo]

You guys follow bowling? I mean not that it's not a fun game but not very mainstream. [:'(]

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

ORIGINAL: sprior
We might let them win the Ashes.

You keeping up with the first test Sprior? I had the good fortune to be on the road and listening to the radio when Siddle got his hat trick yesterday- and it looks like England had a good showing in the bowling today. Should make for a good game.

Ignoring the uncouth yob above - yes, looks like it should be a good one.

[Cap Mandrake]

[:D] I used to watch bowling, but the steroids and artificial tanning booths just ruined it for me. The PBA really needs to do something about it.


Just got back from a mini "vacation" with Stalker Girl to SW Florida to visit some of her relatives from Florida (who now either live there or have snowbird homes there). Nice weather 80-85 no rain. the sand is white and like powder..really nice. Lots of fricken mossies at night because the whole place is swamp. My assessment of Chicagoans...funny as Hell...completely politically incorrect..drink like the fishes...lots of marital infidelity stories.

[princep01]

Follow bowling????? Only if midgets are involved.

Today's sign in was ZEPACO. This happens to be the unsuccessful successor to the Ronco, Mr Microphone.

[Cap Mandrake]

"yob"....[:D]

Sometimes short words are good.

[sprior]

My assessment of Chicagoans...funny as Hell...completely politically incorrect..drink like the fishes...lots of marital infidelity stories.

I'm saying nothing.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

"yob"....[:D]

Sometimes short words are good.

Not sure what it means in ye queens English but in Russian that's quite an uncouth word in it's own right. [:D]

[sprior]

Talking of midgets

[Cap Mandrake]

*****************Grande Puissance, Filloux*******************


<Heavy thicket of brush, North bank, Katherine River, 06:30, June 13, 1942. The men of A/B Battery, Heavy Coastal Defence Regiment are preparing to cross the river and join British 18th Div., but there are Japs on the South bank. In an heroic effort, the men have pushed or pulled down by hand the 5 remaining 155mm 1918 GPF guns the 160 miles from Darwin (with wooden wheels no less)>

Lt. Col. Bellamy, CO: Are the men ready Captain?

Captain: Yes sir, but do you really think this is wise?

Lt. Col. Bellamy, CO: <the two officers stand awkardly on the "command raft", a collection of local driftwood lashed together into a crude raft. To their sides are five more rafts with the 155 guns lashed on board> Those are our orders, Captain. <raises voice to be heard by all> Right now! Line abreast. Keep a tight formation. Oarsmen, I want 60 strokes a minute until we engage the enemy, then we go to 80. We will use HE unless we encounter the Ronsons. And I want good fire discipline. Captain, you may give the signal with the Verey light..........

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*****************Grande Puissance, Filloux*******************


<Heavy thicket of brush, North bank, Katherine River, 06:30, June 14, 1942. The men of A/B Battery, Heavy Coastal Defence Regiment are preparing to cross the river and join British 18th Div., but there are Japs on the South bank. In an heroic effort, the men have pushed or pulled down by hand the 5 remaining 155mm 1918 GPF guns the 160 miles from Darwin (with wooden wheels no less)>

Lt. Col. Bellamy, CO: Are the men ready Captain?

Captain: Yes sir, but do you really think this is wise?

Lt. Col. Bellamy, CO: <the two officers stand awkardly on the "command raft", a collection of local driftwood lashed together into a crude raft. To their sides are five more rafts with the 155 guns lashed on board> Those are our orders, Captain. <raises voice to be heard by all> Right now! Line abreast. Keep a tight formation. Oarsmen, I want 60 strokes a minute until we engage the enemy, then we go to 80. We will use HE unless we encounter the Ronsons. And I want good fire discipline. Captain, you may give the signal with the Verey light..........

Hmm...didn't a certain French leader utter the following which the Captain of the A/B Battery would have been in complete agreement regarding this action:

C'est magnifique mais non est pas la guerre.

I salute their puck.

Alfred

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*****************Grande Puissance, Filloux*******************


<Heavy thicket of brush, North bank, Katherine River, 06:30, June 14, 1942. The men of A/B Battery, Heavy Coastal Defence Regiment are preparing to cross the river and join British 18th Div., but there are Japs on the South bank. In an heroic effort, the men have pushed or pulled down by hand the 5 remaining 155mm 1918 GPF guns the 160 miles from Darwin (with wooden wheels no less)>

Lt. Col. Bellamy, CO: Are the men ready Captain?

Captain: Yes sir, but do you really think this is wise?

Lt. Col. Bellamy, CO: <the two officers stand awkardly on the "command raft", a collection of local driftwood lashed together into a crude raft. To their sides are five more rafts with the 155 guns lashed on board> Those are our orders, Captain. <raises voice to be heard by all> Right now! Line abreast. Keep a tight formation. Oarsmen, I want 60 strokes a minute until we engage the enemy, then we go to 80. We will use HE unless we encounter the Ronsons. And I want good fire discipline. Captain, you may give the signal with the Verey light..........

Hmm...didn't a certain French leader utter the following which the Captain of the A/B Battery would have been in complete agreement regarding this action:

C'est magnifique mais non est pas la guerre.

I salute their puck.

Alfred

Oh, they were pucked alright [:)]

It seems the recoil on the 155's was hard on the rafts. [:D]


Ground combat at Katherine (76,128)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 282 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 466

Defending force 48981 troops, 516 guns, 189 vehicles, Assault Value = 1601

Allied adjusted assault: 0

Japanese adjusted defense: 857

Allied assault odds: 1 to 99

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
199 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled


Assaulting units:
2/1 NAOU Det.
A/B Battery Heavy Coastal Artillery Regiment

[Cap Mandrake]

Lt. Col. Bellamy's unit somehow managed to get the guns off the rafts.

[Alfred]

Hmm...282 Australian troops v 48981 LYB troops. When you consider they were attacking and not defending, that action is on a similar scale to Leonidas at Thermopylae. Better in fact because they did get the guns through (well at least the CR makes no reference to their destruction).

Definitely leaves Henry V's St Crispins day action in the also ran category when speaking of meritorius actions. Now all that you need to do is establish on which saint's day the action occurred and write a speech to supplant the famous St Crispin speech.

Alfred

[Cap Mandrake]

Unfortunately, the rafts carrying 2/1 NAOU overturned and the poor bastards were carried away by the salties. Only the CO survived.

[Cap Mandrake]

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed, or Australia for that matter,
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon.....ummm <consults Patron Saint Almanac>........ Saint Anthony's of Padua day.

[Onime No Kyo]

What sad plagiarism. Can't you come up with a rousing speech that will be quoted for hundreds of years in iambic pentameter yourself. [8|]