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

[Cap Mandrake]

The PI are on the back burner while 5 divisions pound Singapore. A lucky few are being brought out by air to Java and Sumatra (a cadre of the Aus 22nd and 27th Brigades plus clerks and typists from Malaya Command and the RAF women in the tight skirts who take the radio messages then move the airplane icons around on the big map.

[Cap Mandrake]

Here is one of the evacuees. She was transferred to Singapore after her work in helping to sink the Bismarck. Rule Britania (By the way, she was born in Berlin to German parents [X(]

[Moondawggie]

Could you possibly find transport to evacuate her out to us in California? [;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

Could you possibly find transport to evacuate her out to us in California? [;)]

She is quite the Brewster Buffalo, so I can understand your request, but no, she is now part of the narrative, so no trip to California is curently planned.

[Onime No Kyo]

Winnie's writing to the wrong guy. Pound should tell him to go jump off a bridge.

[Cap Mandrake]

Palliser and Phillips chewing the fat.

[Onime No Kyo]

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ROFL

Now you got the right addressees. I can soooo see Sir Tom saying something like that.

Tell me, though, isnt the good admiral still somewhere in Northern Australia with the Repulse...or did he have to fly all the way to Ceylon to boost Palliser's flagging ego?

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I'm having some vague recollections of somebody quipping something about Dardanelles at Winnie's expence (Cunningham maybe?). Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[Cap Mandrake]

No...Varney, who is the only one so far to sink antyhing bigger than a DD, is in charge of the much-diminished Force Z(-).

Phillips, after his annual WITP performance review is going gangbusters with the biggest fast food franchise in Bombay. Of course, he daren't tell the locals what's in the sandwiches.

Also note, in the previous picture, while getting the kitchen tour from his old boss, Palliser got previous secret sauce on his jacket and trousers. Discipline in the forward battle areas tends to go to Hell.

[Onime No Kyo]

Yeah. WitP is being really unfair to ol' Tom. I think that he's one of the best commanders the RN had at the time.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Yeah. WitP is being really unfair to ol' Tom. I think that he's one of the best commanders the RN had at the time.

I think he has the "bad outcome" penalty (Force Z demise)

In Mid January, the entire DEI explodes in a very well coordinated (with a few exceptions) Jap campaign. Here is what is going on in Timor. After 2 torpedo hits, Nagato has split off from the main convoy and will have to run a gauntlet of USN and RNN subs, plus the few remaining, undamaged Beaforts, which, once-again, prove their worth. I am tempted to send Repulse back into the fray against Ise and Suzuya and escorts.

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

This really happend (in May '42, historically). Mr. Jones committed suicide rather than be taken alive. Mrs. Jones and the Aleuts were taken to a POW camp in Hokkaido where 1/3 died. I could be wrong, but I don't think they were treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention.

[Cap Mandrake]

Well...at least it has a nice black sand beach.

[Onime No Kyo]

Gutsy old guy that Mr. Jones. But where did he hope to leave his wife with that course of action? [:(][&:]

[tabpub]

I don't remember losing Attu...?&nbsp; Did I miss something....? < rolls over and starts snoring again in sunny SF>....

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Gutsy old guy that Mr. Jones. But where did he hope to leave his wife with that course of action? [:(][&:]

Exactly. Would have been more gutsy to stay alive...

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: tabpub

I don't remember losing Attu...? Did I miss something....? < rolls over and starts snoring again in sunny SF>....

Dood..you could get soooo fired over things like that.[:-][:'(]

[Onime No Kyo]

Hehe. Send him to a GULAG for "losing his vigilance in the defence if the fatherland". [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Gutsy old guy that Mr. Jones. But where did he hope to leave his wife with that course of action? [:(][&:]

Interesting that you brought that up. It turns out that Sopporo, in 1942, was the sister city of Detroit and the music scene there had adopted a blues sensibility which presaged the Motown sound.

Me and Mrs Jones

Isoruku Matsumoto (1945)
Commandant (1941-1945), Civilian Reeducation Camp #11
Sopporo, Hokkaido Prefecture

Me and Mrs. Jones, we got a thing going on,
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong to let it cool down now.

We meet ev'ry day at the same cafe,
Yeah, like she had a choice.
Six-thirty I know she'll be there,
Morning roll call, to check for escapees, a standard practice
Holding hands, making all kinds of plans
Historians beleive this refers to a tunnel found under a heating stove in early 1944
While the jukebox plays our favorite song.
Poetic lincense. It was really a PA system.

Me and Mrs., Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones,
This misuse of the object pronoun is a common error among non- English-proficent Japanese
Mrs. Jones got a thing going on,
We both know that it's wrong,
No kidding. Try execution for the Major if he is caught.
But it's much too strong to let it cool down now.

We gotta be extra careful
that we don't build our hopes too high
Cause she's got her own obligations and so do I.

Me, me and Mrs., Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones,
Mrs. Jones got a thing going on,
We both know that it's wrong,
But it's much too strong to let it cool down now.
Interstingly, this use of the refrain echos a techinque in Japanese Epic Poetry

Well, it's time for us to be leaving,
It hurts so much, it hurts so much inside,
Now she'll go her way and I'll go mine,
But tomorrow we'll meet the same place, the same time.

Me and Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones.
Clearly a reference to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks. Major Matsumoto, who had a family in Nagoya, realized "the thing wouldn't be goin on" much longer.

[Onime No Kyo]

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