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

[Cap Mandrake]

**************20:30, Far East Command HQ Marileyes********

Aide: General, sir, the launch is ready.

Tall patrician looking fellow: Well, boys, I'm off for a morale boosting tour of the nurses in the Malinta Tunnel....

[Cap Mandrake]

I've been trying to bait the IJN into a fight away from their operational airfields before I send off 100,000 troops to Guam. Suddenly today there is a large disturbance in the force at Beazelbob. SANTA MARIA! That-ah a rot of pranes!

[Cap Mandrake]

Dummy landing force of 20 transports or so 160 miles from Truk and they are seemingly unspotted. It seems our bombers have done too good a job on Truk and Ponape and Wolei

[Cap Mandrake]

*****************June 14, 1943(e)***********

Marshalls:Parachute assaults at Eniweetok Anlinglaplap, and Wotje (which seems like it should be in Poland) succeed and support troops pour in without losses. USN/USMC carrier planes from Pearl can now reach Eniweetok by ferrying to USS Long Island west of Palmyra then to Wotje then to Eniweetok

[Cap Mandrake]

Truk, Wolei, Ponape: Heavy bombers from New Ireland keep up the suppression

[Cap Mandrake]

Bataan: More tac air attacks and then artillery bombardment. IJA infantry takes the day off.

Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1912 troops, 159 guns, 118 vehicles, Assault Value = 678

Defending force 42792 troops, 470 guns, 309 vehicles, Assault Value = 469

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
182 casualties reported
Squads: 24 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Assaulting units:
28th Division
16th Division
1st Art.Mortar Regiment
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
25th Army
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
31st Infantry Regiment
54th British Brigade
21st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry/C Division
91st PA Infantry Division
3rd Marine/A Div /2
103rd PA Infantry Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
182nd Infantry Regiment
1st Constabulary Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
4th Constabulary Regiment
51st PA Infantry Division
35th Avn Sup
2nd Constabulary Regiment
57th PS Infantry Regiment
301st Construction Battalion
11th PA Infantry/B Division
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
762nd Tank Battalion
45th PS Infantry Regiment
71st PA Infantry Division
632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
81st PA Infantry Div /1
86th PS Field Artillery Battalion
Clark Field AAF Base Force
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
2nd PA Infantry Regiment
I/Prov'nl SPM Grp
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
165th Field Artillery Battalion
Far East USAAF
11th PA Infantry/A Division
24th PS FA Regiment
Manila Bay Defenses
US Forces Far East
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
1st USMC AA Battalion
Bataan USN Base Force
11th PAAC Avn Sup
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
!/23rd PS FA Battalion
III/Prov'nl SPM Grp
4th PAAC Avn Sup
102nd PA Infantry Regiment
501st Coast AA Regiment
II Corps
II/Prov'nl SPM Grp
27th Avn Sup /2

[Cap Mandrake]

Sumatra: Sabang AF fully operational again RN cruisers move to Sabang and transports strat arriving again.

[Cap Mandrake]

Luzon is going to fall. We can't get there fast enough without intolerable risk to the carriers. Plan B is to save the lads on Mindanao.[:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Victory Point screen. We are still behind because of shipping losses. The loss of the Luzon garrison will not help.

There are still large numbers of LYB troops trapped on New Caledonia and Tasmania and on the India/Burma border and at Rangoon. That will help the matter when they become compost

[Cap Mandrake]

Situation with the Marshalls

[Cap Mandrake]

NW New Guinea the Moluccas and other stuff

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Wow, quite a week in SoCal. Really bad. ICU's full. FEMA has deployed temporary overflow structures. Children's hospital taking some adult patients.

I got the Pfizer vaccine Friday. Made my arm pretty sore for 2 d and some fatigue but not terrible. I think part of the reason I am tired is I'm not sleeping well. I woke up at 3 AM on Saturday hanging upside down from a big chandelier with my arms folded....and the neighborhood seems curiously free of insects.

Free of insects? You must have watched different movies than I did as a kid.[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Wow, quite a week in SoCal. Really bad. ICU's full. FEMA has deployed temporary overflow structures. Children's hospital taking some adult patients.

I got the Pfizer vaccine Friday. Made my arm pretty sore for 2 d and some fatigue but not terrible. I think part of the reason I am tired is I'm not sleeping well. I woke up at 3 AM on Saturday hanging upside down from a big chandelier with my arms folded....and the neighborhood seems curiously free of insects.

Free of insects? You must have watched different movies than I did as a kid.[:D]

Well it's horseshoe bat DNA. The blood thing is an acquired taste.

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Wow, quite a week in SoCal. Really bad. ICU's full. FEMA has deployed temporary overflow structures. Children's hospital taking some adult patients.

I got the Pfizer vaccine Friday. Made my arm pretty sore for 2 d and some fatigue but not terrible. I think part of the reason I am tired is I'm not sleeping well. I woke up at 3 AM on Saturday hanging upside down from a big chandelier with my arms folded....and the neighborhood seems curiously free of insects.

Free of insects? You must have watched different movies than I did as a kid.[:D]

Well it's horseshoe bat DNA. The blood thing is an acquired taste.

I see a business opportunity here for Milo.

A fresh blood bar with live humans hanging upside down with a tap attached to their neck. Order fresh O negative, or A positive depending on taste, with delicious bar snacks such as chocolate ants or lightly fried locusts in a soy sauce to complement the drink. Background music could be the original score for the German Nosferatu film.

Sure this is a niche market but one very poorly serviced by the hospitality industry. Not to overlook the fact the clientele would be all those high net worth individuals.

Alfred

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck



Free of insects? You must have watched different movies than I did as a kid.[:D]

Well it's horseshoe bat DNA. The blood thing is an acquired taste.

I see a business opportunity here for Milo.

A fresh blood bar with live humans hanging upside down with a tap attached to their neck. Order fresh O negative, or A positive depending on taste, with delicious bar snacks such as chocolate ants or lightly fried locusts in a soy sauce to complement the drink. Background music could be the original score for the German Nosferatu film.

Sure this is a niche market but one very poorly serviced by the hospitality industry. Not to overlook the fact the clientele would be all those high net worth individuals.

Alfred

[:D]
Just be sure not to let the decorator install UV mood lighting ...[8D]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*****************June 14, 1943(e)***********

Marshalls:Parachute assaults at Eniweetok Anlinglaplap, and Wotje (which seems like it should be in Poland) succeed and support troops pour in without losses. USN/USMC carrier planes from Pearl can now reach Eniweetok by ferrying to USS Long Island west of Palmyra then to Wotje then to Eniweetok

Those islands used to be controlled by the Germans which also controlled part of Poland so yes, maybe that is where the name came from.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake




Well it's horseshoe bat DNA. The blood thing is an acquired taste.

I see a business opportunity here for Milo.

A fresh blood bar with live humans hanging upside down with a tap attached to their neck. Order fresh O negative, or A positive depending on taste, with delicious bar snacks such as chocolate ants or lightly fried locusts in a soy sauce to complement the drink. Background music could be the original score for the German Nosferatu film.

Sure this is a niche market but one very poorly serviced by the hospitality industry. Not to overlook the fact the clientele would be all those high net worth individuals.

Alfred

[:D]
Just be sure not to let the decorator install UV mood lighting ...[8D]

In the original book, Dracula was weaken by sunlight but not killed. If I remember correctly, that was also the case in the television show Dark Shadows.

[Cap Mandrake]

Speaking of Germany, I bought a Heng Long King Tiger RC tank for my grandson. It's crazy ..either 1/14th or 1/16th scale. Engine start noises. Glycerin heater for fake diesel smoke. Rotating turret. Elevating main gun. Working hatches. Real treads. Individual suspension for each running wheel. Gun fires BB's. Speed adjusted to scale. Recoil on gun firing.

Free Hitlerjugend membership. It's great! CD with the Panzerleid.

Took me about 1 1/2 hr to put on all the exterior parts. Towing cables, axes, jacks spare track sections, mud flaps etc etc.

Crazy.

I needed a head lamp and tweezers and a magnetic screwdriver to get some of the GD parts on. Total nerddom. Turns out the King Tiger had two turret manufacturers...Porsche and Henschel.

Unfortunately, the tank commander is all green and has no legs.

[Cap Mandrake]

The manufacturers assembly instructions are a laugh riot. Considering how nicely the product is produced you would think they could hire a 10 yr old to do the translation.

[Cap Mandrake]

Axis Fanboy Quiz:

Which King Tiger turret manufacturer mounted the replacement track sections on the turret?