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

[Onime No Kyo]

Oh yeah! Thats right. With all this talk about Yossarian and all I forgot.
 
 

[Cap Mandrake]

One thing about night naval battles..one never knows exactly how it will come out. [:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

[font="Arial"]Dec 28...We reached our planned rendevous point with 27th Brigade today, finding nothing save an abandoned, disabled lorry. There is also a disquieting absence of artillery fire. We traded some of our kit for rice with local villagers who informed us the Australians had pulled out in haste the day before our arrival. They denied having seen the Japanese. The Captain has ordered a night march to the West, to try to close with the Australians. He also forbade the use of cooking fires, a proscritption which went unheeded by Pvt. Duncan, the son of the
Anglican Minister in Khota Bahru. When the Captain discovered the fire he doused it with water and sent the young lad's rice carreening into the bush with his boot. The impetuous Private rose to strike the Captain, who, instead, sidestepped the blow, grabbed him by the wrist and elbow and directed him face first into a fig tree. When the lad awoke, he was shorn of his weapon and two front teeth.[/font]

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[font="Arial"]Dec 29...Our expedition reached a literal and figurative turning point today. After an all night march, save for a two hour respite at 2 AM, my squad, which was in the van, rounded a bend in the trail and chanced upon a beautiful mountain stream with clear running water. Imprudently, we rushed to the stream to take a drink and wash our faces. As we enjoyed the cool water, Private Jones suddenly stood upright, then assumed a half crouch. To our left, not 15 yds distant, were two well-tanned orientals wearing nothing but loincloths, standing thigh deep in the stream. Our indecision evaporated when the unlucky Private Jones, a father of two, was shot through the heart by a third, unseen member of their party. We scrambled for our weapons, returning fire and killing the two bathers. If the third member fired a second shot we did not hear it. This is how the war began for me. Everything before, which had seemed such a hardship, was now relegated to clinical sterility. Here, three men had lost heir lives merely to fulfill a biological need. As we dragged the lifeless Private Jones back up the trail, we were greeted by the Captain with his field glasses. In the valley below us was the macadamized East-West road to Johore Bahru. Upon it were perhaps 100 Japanese vehicles, many towing large caliber artillery moving, with no apparent urgency, to the West. This was not the tip of the Japanese spear. This was the tail. To our West were steeply sided ridges marching away into the mist, demarcating tributaries feeding into the river that coursed along the road. The terrain was imapssable. We were too late. Commonwealth forces had been driven out. "God help us", said one of the party. "There will be none of that!", the Captained scowled "Back up the trail, the lot of you, now.".[/font]

[Cap Mandrake]

After the loss of RNN Java and Benckert and the USS Edwards, combined with appearance of Zuiho and Ryujo, Repulse and her escorts are forced to retreat to Derby. USAAF fighters transfer to Derby to provide CAP. The silver lining is the Yamshiro strays from her fighter cover over Dili and is torpedoed again by Beauforts from Koepang (the second time in 10 d [:)]). A jap destroyer is also hit.

A night surface raid near Darwin catches 3 tankers at sea [:@]

[Cap Mandrake]

After a stop in Belize so the Captain could take some bonefish on a fly line and a leisurely cruise through the Panama Canal, the Yorktown finally arrives in SF. We have stock reinforcement schedule selected so our opponent can push his operations right up to the limit with 100% intel on the arrival of our major assets....DOH!

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[Onime No Kyo]

Milo is selling children? [X(]
 
This is about |...| that far off from embodying the Modest Proposal. [X(]

[Moondawggie]

Gotta love D,C,&H! Like all good personal injury attorneys, they just have a way of finding new sources of business benefitting from their personal concern and expertise.

(God forbid they go on retainer for M&M enterprises once it really takes off.) [X(]

Incidentally, I appreciated your advice about the rear window defroster. My fingers haven't been then toasty on the "ride to work" in a long time...

[Onime No Kyo]

Heh...there's always that old joke....I went to the dealership and said I wanted a windsheild wiper for my Yugo. They said it was a fair trade. <padumpum>

[Cap Mandrake]

Medals all around

[Cap Mandrake]

Radio Report received Malaya Army HQ, Singapore, Jan 1, 1942



".....enemy tanks crossing the causeway..now 15..repeat causway is NOT destroyed..enemy tanks across the causway in strenght..."


[:@] The pursuit with armor gimmick is a bit gamey. 5 brigades in Johore. 2 rested brigades on Singapore itself with dozens of antitank weapons...and they cant stop a dozen Jap tankettes from crossing a causeway that is a couple of hundred yds long and perhaps 15 feet wide. One or two disabled vehicles would block the causeway.

In game terms, it means 5 Divisions of infantry can march across to Singapore with the bagpipes playing. Bloody annoying.

[witpqs]

Huh? So the Japs are using captured bagpipes? [&:]

Dirty pool, I say!

[:D]

[Arstavidios]

Humm does it mean they also wear kilts?

[Onime No Kyo]

January 1 and theyre in Singers already? [X(]
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I knew Faber was taking it easy on me, but I didnt know by how much. Now I do. [&o]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Arstavidios

Humm does it mean they also wear kilts?

Yes, the IJA did experiment with captured kilts during the Malaya campaign. They were apparently well liked by the troops because of the lack of need for undergarments in the tropics, but the experiment was called off as they were sized for longer-legged individuals and General Yamashita felt it made his troops "rook rike geishas".


Note: The managment niether encourages nor condones the use of low-brow, adolsecent, racial sterotypes, even in a jocualr fashion.

[Terminus]

[Onime No Kyo]

I'd rather have the kilts too long than too short. The risk is already big enough in windy weather.

[Onime No Kyo]

UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!!
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The Prodetariat demands it!!!!