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

[Cap Mandrake]

Charter Towers (not a bed and breakfast): These are the former "defenders" of Townsville just trying to get away.

Ground combat at Charters Towers (91,145)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 920 troops, 4 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 159

Defending force 3392 troops, 42 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 45

Japanese adjusted assault: 16

Allied adjusted defense: 12

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

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

Allied ground losses:
55 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
2nd Recon Regiment
4th Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
11th Australian Brigade
Townsville RAN Base Force
B'daberg RAN Stn Base Force
1st Port Maint Engr Bn /1

[Cap Mandrake]

Borneo: We try to bombard Miri for the second night in a row. IJN shows up. Mostly a draw. Marblehead isn't that bad off.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Miri at 64,87, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Suzuya, Shell hits 4
DD Nowaki, Shell hits 1
DD Arashi

Allied Ships
CL Marblehead, Shell hits 4, heavy fires
DD Stewart
DD Paul Jones, Shell hits 2, on fire

Marblehead TF heads back toward Manila but it is a bad day for Kiyo Maru.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Miri at 64,86, Range 20,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
PB Eiko Maru, Shell hits 10, heavy fires, heavy damage
TK Kiyo Maru, Shell hits 19, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CL Marblehead, Shell hits 3, on fire
DD Stewart
DD Paul Jones, on fire

The mail plane is here! The mail plane is here! This almost as bad as getting "brown up" by an uglofortress.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Miri at 64,87

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 2

Allied aircraft
139WH-3 x 2
Hudson I x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
TK Syoyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing from 1000 feet *
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 lb SAP Bomb

These are small victories but we can only nibble at the edges at this point.

[Cap Mandrake]

****Escape of the damaged crusiers, Jan 9-10****

2 have reached Darwin but a Jap carrier force of some description is in the Torres Strait.

2 refused to go north. One made Bundaberg and the other is making a run for the Southern Solomons.

Minneapolis extinguished her fires and is ported at Sydney.

None are really out of trouble.

[Cap Mandrake]

*****KB******

The KB moved Eastward toward Noumea on the 9th. We buttoned up everything we could from Noumea to NZ and sent transports away.

On the 10th, the KB disappeared and there were no attacks or sightings by carrier aircraft?????

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The mail plane is here! The mail plane is here! This almost as bad as getting "brown up" by an uglofortress.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Miri at 64,87

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 2

Allied aircraft
139WH-3 x 2
Hudson I x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
TK Syoyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing from 1000 feet *
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 lb SAP Bomb

[:D] Any ship with the word "yoyo" in its name was likely assigned a captain who fit the bill .... [:'(]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*****KB******

The KB moved Eastward toward Noumea on the 9th. We buttoned up everything we could from Noumea to NZ and sent transports away.

On the 10th, the KB disappeared and there were no attacks or sightings by carrier aircraft?????

Usually the AOs for the KB TF is held somewhere further away from the Aus. coast. KB going to meet them could look like a move on Noumea.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*****KB******

The KB moved Eastward toward Noumea on the 9th. We buttoned up everything we could from Noumea to NZ and sent transports away.

On the 10th, the KB disappeared and there were no attacks or sightings by carrier aircraft?????

Usually the AOs for the KB TF is held somewhere further away from the Aus. coast. KB going to meet them could look like a move on Noumea.

Hai! But they should have been within PBY range by now.

[desicat]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The mail plane is here! The mail plane is here! This almost as bad as getting "brown up" by an uglofortress.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Miri at 64,87

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 2

Allied aircraft
139WH-3 x 2
Hudson I x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
TK Syoyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing from 1000 feet *
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 lb SAP Bomb

[:D] Any ship with the word "yoyo" in its name was likely assigned a captain who fit the bill .... [:'(]

Possibly a product of Yoyodine Propulsion Systems? Captain Banzai?

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The mail plane is here! The mail plane is here! This almost as bad as getting "brown up" by an uglofortress.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Miri at 64,87

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 2

Allied aircraft
139WH-3 x 2
Hudson I x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
TK Syoyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing from 1000 feet *
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 lb SAP Bomb

[:D] Any ship with the word "yoyo" in its name was likely assigned a captain who fit the bill .... [:'(]

That-ah curturary insensitibu! [:-]

[desicat]

Need to raise more money for the conflict in Australia....

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: desicat



Need to raise more money for the conflict in Australia....

Holy Cow! A gain of $2.50 in just 10 years! Why, that's ... 25 cents a year! Just think of the cabin you could build with that!

(BTW - is M&M Enterprises involved in this war bond scheme?)

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Holy Cow! A gain of $2.50 in just 10 years! Why, that's ... 25 cents a year! Just think of the cabin you could build with that!

(BTW - is M&M Enterprises involved in this war bond scheme?)

I don't suppose any educational materials are included along with this war bond drive? You know, the type that explains that a long-term fixed interest bond yield can be made effectively worthless by significant inflation in 1947, thereby losing the investor money? The quintessential "return free risk"?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: desicat



Need to raise more money for the conflict in Australia....

Holy Cow! A gain of $2.50 in just 10 years! Why, that's ... 25 cents a year! Just think of the cabin you could build with that!

(BTW - is M&M Enterprises involved in this war bond scheme?)

To be fair, BBfanboy, it appears as though the war bond promulgated here is only part of a balanced portfolio. This portfolio, per the advertisement, also includes toenail trimming-fed hogs (pork bellies), tobacco and the subtle insinuation of prostitution. Now THAT's diversification!

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

To be fair, BBfanboy, it appears as though the war bond promulgated here is only part of a balanced portfolio. This portfolio, per the advertisement, also includes toenail trimming-fed hogs (pork bellies), tobacco and the subtle insinuation of prostitution. Now THAT's diversification!

I can only imagine one of those investments providing a happy ending. I would insist on being part of the quality control team, to ensure ISO 9001 standards of course!

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

To be fair, BBfanboy, it appears as though the war bond promulgated here is only part of a balanced portfolio. This portfolio, per the advertisement, also includes toenail trimming-fed hogs (pork bellies), tobacco and the subtle insinuation of prostitution. Now THAT's diversification!

I can only imagine one of those investments providing a happy ending. I would insist on being part of the quality control team, to ensure ISO 9001 standards of course!

Invest in a happy ending - great ad for a massage parlor!

[desicat]

ORIGINAL: desicat



Need to raise more money for the conflict in Australia....

The script reads like a line written for Jar Jar Binks.

[Chickenboy]

Oi! Fleet Admiral! Lord Admiral! This bloody thing keeps dangling precariously over the page 2 edge. Have a care!

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Oi! Fleet Admiral! Lord Admiral! This bloody thing keeps dangling precariously over the page 2 edge. Have a care!

Oh, give Admiral Mandrake a break - he is a Grandpa now and has to figure out ways to spoil the little one. It's called RL getting in the way of our addiction ...[;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

13 year old SG III arguing with me about treatment of an ear infection. [:@]

FAM: Did you finish your antibiotic?

SGIII: My dad said I didn't need it anymore. <she has just returned from a week away..a blind rage comes over the older participant...he seems to be trying to control himself..after a short while the facial suffusion resolves..>

FAM: Look, you don't argue with Tom Brady about how to throw a football

SGIII: I don't get it.

FAM: Thus it is demonstrated.

[Cap Mandrake]

A strange thing happened on the way to complete Japanese domination of the SOUTH Pacific

***********January 12, 1942(e)**************