At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Maybe we should post things on this AAR for him to read when he gets back. [:D]

I mean, it has been 5 days so far . . . [8|]

He could just be busy not getting tests for hordes of patients he thinks need them ...

Or he could have decided to go on a strategically timed quest for the perfect martini.

[Cap Mandrake]

The IJA commander had to commit hari kiri because he updated his Apple product and it was not retro-compatible. The IJN commander has taken ovah and try to rearn how to use knee mortar.

[Disco Duck]

What? The Japanese have been running all of this time on a Macintosh?[&:]

[Cap Mandrake]

We are getting murdered at work. Way, WAAAY too many people with significant fevers for mid March but we still don't have enough f****** testing capacity. Our lab contractor, Quest now has internal Covid-19 testing, thereby bypassing the f****** useless CDC, but we don't have enough of the f****** green-top vials they require the specimen be submitted in. Why don't we have enough? Well, because one of the f****** administrators decided to have a f****** drive-thru testing station today and she took all the f****** green-top vials. So now all the f***-wit neurotics who THINK they have C-19 will use up all the testing capacity while the obviously sick patients already screened by experienced professionals can't get a f****** test.

That is what you call f****** FUBAR.

[Cap Mandrake]

The shit is all over the place I am pretty sure but it is hard to distinguish from other viruses. I am seeing quite a bit of conjunctivitis with subsequent respiratory symptoms and fever. This might be C-19 but might also be adenovirus. A bit late for adenovirus but shit...you can't tell for sure. Many patients seem sick enough to have influenza but they are testing negative. Seems bloody suspicious to me. I am giving everyone a week off school but it seems likely all the big school districts will shut down next week anyway. Two weeks too late if you ask me.

[Cap Mandrake]

Then you have the local health departments. Even in good times, you tend not to attract the brightest bulbs to county health departments but they seemed DELIBERATELY stupid. When they still offered the PRETENSE of containment they would refuse all testing even whole families with high fevers and travel to Pakistan, for eg. Why would you not test? It's the ABSOLUTE ESSENTIAL F****** KEY to isolation and containment.

I now realize they had already given up on containment because they lacked adequate and timely testing and had now switched over to "flattening the curve" but didn't have the f****** stones to admit it. I had it hear it from f******* Governor Newsom who publicly complained there were only 500 kits in all of California.[X(]

He stood there with his fabulously hair-sprayed helmet head and spilled the beans before somebody got to him and told him to shut up

[Cap Mandrake]

I think we may be a week away from a Wuhan or Lombardy style lockdown. If you haven't got your 380 rolls of toilet paper yet you may be screwed but I have a suggestion. Just order the new york times. For like $3.80 a week they will DELIVER the TP to your door.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The IJA commander had to commit hari kiri because he updated his Apple product and it was not retro-compatible. The IJN commander has taken ovah and try to rearn how to use knee mortar.

If Emperor want subjects to use Apple he would have put Apple on tree.

IJA troops have refuse to obey stinkin' IJN commander badge or no badge.

[JohnnieX]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I think we may be a week away from a Wuhan or Lombardy style lockdown. If you haven't got your 380 rolls of toilet paper yet you may be screwed but I have a suggestion. Just order the new york times. For like $3.80 a week they will DELIVER the TP to your door.

Small mercies. At least all the contributors to this AAR are all young, fit and healthy.

Phew!

I once got Delhi Belly in a shopping centre in Chennai. I discovered that the public toilets don't have bog roll. Just a bucket and a tap (fawcett?). No flush either. I worked this out after my activities. I also discovered that I can wash my backside with my hand perfectly well when needs must.

[Cap Mandrake]

*********January 27, 1943(e)*********

Central Pacific: SCTF trying to reach Mindanao runs into fish-head soup convoy for Wake

Night Time Surface Combat, near Wake Island at 129,94, Range 6,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
xAKL Shonan Maru #8, Shell hits 5, and is sunk
PB Fumi Maru #3, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CL Cleveland
DD Fletcher
DD DeHaven

[Cap Mandrake]

Sundas, Ceram etc,: A Jap SCTF was spotted inbound yesterday from Kendari toward Dobo or other destinations so we send out 5 PT fotillas and a powerful USN SCTF to patrol. Here they come.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Dobo at 83,116, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Yunagi
DD Minekaze
DD Hasu

Allied Ships
PT-76
PT-143
PT-144
PT-157
PT-158
PT-160
PT-162

[Cap Mandrake]

Damnit they dodged the USN cruiser force.

Night Naval bombardment of Dobo at 83,116

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort VIII: 7 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Hasu
DD Minekaze
DD Yunagi

Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5
Port hits 3

[Cap Mandrake]

Double damnit! There is a second force coming down the Ceram-New Guine gap.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Gorong at 82,112, Range 24,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano
DD Hamakaze
DD Minegumo
DD Kawakaze
DD Umikaze

Allied Ships
PT-181
PT-182
PT-183, Shell hits 1
PT-184, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT-185, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
PT-186, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

[Cap Mandrake]

Crap! 9-kt LCT's caught in the middle of the Ceram-NG channel. The actual losses are 30 Stuarts and half-tracks but more important are the LCT's.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Gorong at 82,112, Range 20,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano
DD Hamakaze
DD Minegumo
DD Kawakaze
DD Umikaze

Allied Ships
LCT-58, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
LCT-59, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
LCT-60, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
LCT-61, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
LCT-62, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
LCT-63, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
LCT-64, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
LCT-65, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
LCT-66, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
LCT-67, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
SC-703, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 16 (14 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 72 (61 destroyed, 11 disabled)

[Cap Mandrake]

PT boats are hard to hit with an aerial torp.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Boela at 80,110

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 24
G3M3 Nell x 13

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
PT-183
PT-182

[Cap Mandrake]

These are well-trained FAA pilots flying from Dobo but they can't hit Kumano. JJ lucks out here.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Gorong at 82,112

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Allied aircraft
Albacore I x 8
Beaufighter Ic x 1

Allied aircraft losses
Albacore I: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano

[Cap Mandrake]

Neither can RAAF.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Gorong at 82,112

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufort VIII x 3

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano

[Cap Mandrake]

All sorts of sorties against the PT boats. They are in the death zone (14 hexes from Kendari)

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Boela at 80,110

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 2 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 0 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 24
G3M3 Nell x 13

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
PT-178
PT-175
PT-179

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x G3M3 Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Boela at 80,110

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 45
G3M3 Nell x 9

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
PT-182
PT-183

[Cap Mandrake]

Some landing craft delivering infantry to Boela escape destruction.

[Cap Mandrake]

PI: Bataan and Batan Is bombed pretty good.

Out TBF's on Mindano unwisely attack a CVE or CVL?

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Sangi at 77,96

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
A6M3a Zero x 16

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIc x 6
TBF-1 Avenger x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter VIc: 2 destroyed
TBF-1 Avenger: 1 destroyed