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RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:44 pm
by perkinh
"he'uns spake".... for those a little more south.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:50 pm
by perkinh
Sorry to change the subject, but i just had a squirrel moment.( I know it never happens on this thread)
Do you think that the bombers with the sexiest nose art survived longer?
Is it because the enemy pilots wanted to man up, and waited to pull the.. uuum "trigger" a little longer than they normally would.?
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:54 pm
by sprior
you OK with this novel development?
He's writing a novel? Should I put him in touch with Daphne du Maurier? Boy Browning was at St Custard's - how else do you think he got that absurd name?
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:43 pm
by BrucePowers
Sure he's writing a novel. Haven't you seen all of the posts from the editor?
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:00 am
by Cap Mandrake
OK, here is an idea.
1) We put 20 tramp steamers loaded with supplies in a convoy. We give them a pure DD surface group for escort. We send them toward PH with LRCAP from Exmouth.
2) LYB carrier strikes ensue. We shoot down some LYB planes, we lose or have crippled maybe 10 AK's and 1 or 2 DD's. JJ uses up most of his torpedoes in the carrier magazines.
3) We keep going. Day 2 is more of the same.
4) JJ runs out of torpedoes and suffers airframe losses and pilot fatigue and pulls back to rearm.
5) We send in a BB force to wreck the airfield and more AK's. The carriers move East of Exmouth to cover.
What could possibly go wrong?[;)]
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:15 am
by Alfred
Don't forget to tell the remaining 10 tramp steamers to unload their supplies at PH.
Alfred
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:36 am
by BrucePowers
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
OK, here is an idea.
1) We put 20 tramp steamers loaded with supplies in a convoy. We give them a pure DD surface group for escort. We send them toward PH with LRCAP from Exmouth.
2) LYB carrier strikes ensue. We shoot down some LYB planes, we lose or have crippled maybe 10 AK's and 1 or 2 DD's. JJ uses up most of his torpedoes in the carrier magazines.
3) We keep going. Day 2 is more of the same.
4) JJ runs out of torpedoes and suffers airframe losses and pilot fatigue and pulls back to rearm.
5) We send in a BB force to wreck the airfield and more AK's. The carriers move East of Exmouth to cover.
What could possibly go wrong?[;)]
Let me count the ways[:D]
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:36 am
by BrucePowers
ORIGINAL: Alfred
Don't forget to tell the remaining 10 tramp steamers to unload their supplies at PH.
Alfred
If there are 10 left...
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:07 am
by Moondawggie
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
OK, here is an idea.
1) We put 20 tramp steamers loaded with supplies in a convoy. We give them a pure DD surface group for escort. We send them toward PH with LRCAP from Exmouth.
2) LYB carrier strikes ensue. We shoot down some LYB planes, we lose or have crippled maybe 10 AK's and 1 or 2 DD's. JJ uses up most of his torpedoes in the carrier magazines.
3) We keep going. Day 2 is more of the same.
4) JJ runs out of torpedoes and suffers airframe losses and pilot fatigue and pulls back to rearm.
5) We send in a BB force to wreck the airfield and more AK's. The carriers move East of Exmouth to cover.
What could possibly go wrong?[;)]
Uhh, you could personally be assigned as a crewman aboard one of those AKs?
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:18 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Moondawggie
Uhh, you could personally be assigned as a crewman aboard one of those AKs?
Well, they DID get two free drinks and were warned by that nice Rupert from the Royal Navy that there was a
soupcon of danger. A contract is a contract.
Plus there is the wreckage of that R-class to cling to should they make it to Port Hedland.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:23 pm
by zuluhour
....and I have the golden ticket
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:26 am
by BrucePowers
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Moondawggie
Uhh, you could personally be assigned as a crewman aboard one of those AKs?
Well, they DID get
two free drinks and were warned by that nice Rupert from the Royal Navy that there was a
soupcon of danger. A contract is a contract.
Plus there is the wreckage of that R-class to cling to should they make it to Port Hedland.
The RN has reinstituted the press gangs[X(][:D]
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:32 am
by sprior
wreckage of that R-class
It's a breakwater. Duh.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:55 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Yeah..good point. In an amazing display of prescience, the Allied Command has provided a breakwater at our landing beaches.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:00 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Here is the problem. None of our air sorties went in over PH yesterday. Not even the night raids.
All 4 airfields, Meekathara, Exmouth, Carnovan and Geraldton have Air HQ prepped for PH. Except for Geraldton, the strike aircraft match the Air HQ's for the field at which they are based. None are overstacked, All have supply. The CO's are the biggest fire breathers we can find (except Chennault..don't know where he is).
I might actually have to watch the combat replay.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:08 pm
by witpqs
Do a mouse-over of PH. What was the weather for today? Individual hexes can vary significantly from the weather forecast. If planes from all those base didn't fly it might have been the weather over the target.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:52 pm
by sprior
Not even the night raids.
This might account for some of it:
3 x No.18 Sqn RAAF B-25C Mitchell stray due to night
4 x 22nd BG/2nd BS B-26 Marauder stray due to night
3 x 22nd BG/33rd BS B-25C Mitchell stray due to night
6 x 11th BG/98th BS B-24D Liberator stray due to night
8 x 90th BG/319th BS B-24D Liberator stray due to night
3 x 90th BG/320th BS B-24D Liberator stray due to night
3 x 5th BG/394th BS B-24D Liberator stray due to night
3 x 90th BG/400th BS B-24D Liberator stray due to night
5 x 28th CG/404th BS B-24D Liberator stray due to night
4 x 38th BG/405th BS B-25C Mitchell stray due to night
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:54 pm
by sprior
the Allied Command has provided a breakwater at our landing beaches.
Just watch, some git in Europe will say they invented it and call it some stupid name like Loganberry or Kumquat.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:57 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: sprior
the Allied Command has provided a breakwater at our landing beaches.
Just watch, some git in Europe will say they invented it and call it some stupid name like Loganberry or Kumquat.
Ham and Jam? [&:]
ETA: No, that was some other ridiculous nonsensical limey code phrase. [;)]
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:27 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: witpqs
Do a mouse-over of PH. What was the weather for today? Individual hexes can vary significantly from the weather forecast. If planes from all those base didn't fly it might have been the weather over the target.
OK, here's what I found with mouseover....
