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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/20/2009 2:35:35 PM   
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im with todd on this one...hope the she see's the end

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/20/2009 10:07:29 PM   
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Precautions are recommended.


Signal from Admiral Tanaka to all ships of Task Force 43:

Task force will proceed through Kanmon Strait into Sea of Japan. Movement to commence immediately after nightfall. Straggling not advised.


That's twice our lads have had to scurry from a port in Japan itself. By now, even CPO Shun will realize that Japan is losing -- and the IJN is being forced to retreat instead of defending the Homeland. Morale problems seem very likely.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/21/2009 6:10:53 AM   
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ORIGINAL: tocaff

Movement of shipping being dictated by what the enemy is capable of is an awful position to find yourself in.  Not only does the loss of initiative hurt, but the burning of precious fuel stocks just to avoid what might happen is harmful too.  The old "nowhere to run, nowhere to hide" noose is getting tighter.  


I thoroughly understand what you are going through and feel your pain!


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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/21/2009 9:07:39 PM   
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January 28, 1945

Location: 100 miles northeast of Pusan
Course: North
Attached to: TF 43
Mission: Bombardment
System Damage: 0
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 425

Orders: Proceed into Sea of Japan to evade enemy air attacks

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The Sea of Japan was once land-locked, ages ago, and is still so sheltered that tides there are almost non-existent. Hibiki’s keel has not touched these waters since the week before the war began. The destroyer and the rest of Tanaka’s task force are there now, however, fleeing the wrath of the Allied fast carrier formations.

As it turns out this was an unnecessary precaution. The blow has once again fallen on Tokyo and the area nearby. The Japanese have mustered the bulk of their remaining air force here and fierce aerial battles rage throughout the day, both over Tokyo and in the skies over the enemy ships.

Tokyo is hit hard. Several Japanese ships are sunk and two dozen others are heavily damaged. Japanese aircraft losses are appalling, though the totals are concealed well enough that little word of their extent ever reaches Hibiki. Almost 600 planes are lost in the air and on the ground.

Reports indicate that enemy air losses are also heavy. Further, the enemy carrier forces are once again said to have been devastated. This sounds a little hollow, considering that these same forces were said to have been wrecked by Japanese air power less than a week ago and yet here they are, savaging Japan once again. Some aboard Hibiki wonder if any enemy ships have actually been hit at all.

---

The crew of HMS Indomitable do not have any doubts on this point. They are currently fighting valiantly to save their ship, which has been struck by four torpedoes. Some distance off they can see a column of dense smoke rising into the sky. This marks the position of HMS Victorious, which has also been hit. Victorious, which had been damaged previously at the battles of Exmouth Bay and Santa Cruz, will once again live to fight another day. Indomitable’s fate, however, is considerably more in doubt.

The doubt is settled when the fires aboard touch off explosions deep in the heart of the carrier. The order to abandon ship is given and the crew is evacuated in good order. Soon afterwards the stricken carrier is given the coup de grace by one of her escorting destroyers.

Despite this loss the raid is considered a substantial victory by the Allies. Most Japanese commanders are of the same opinion, though few will say so out loud. Japan’s ability to resist enemy air attacks has not been destroyed, but it has been seriously damaged. The main effect this will have on Japanese policy will be to remove the final barriers to the widespread use of the Special Attack Corps.

The Allied forces withdraw as night approaches. But both sides know that, sooner or later, they will be back.

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HMS Indomitable in better times:











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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/21/2009 9:29:47 PM   
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Tough going for the Empire of the Sun, 1945, the bane of JFBs.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/22/2009 4:21:46 AM   
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The main effect this will have on Japanese policy will be to remove the final barriers to the widespread use of the Special Attack Corps.

The Allied forces withdraw as night approaches. But both sides know that, sooner or later, they will be back.


But without at least one British CV -- which are the best ones to resist kamikaze attacks. The armored flight decks make them rather more vulnerable to torpedoes, mind you.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/23/2009 5:58:36 PM   
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I have just finished reading through this whole masterpice.


Cuttlefish, I am not sure if you are not a professionel writer in reality, but if you are not, you sure have missed your callig!!!


Holy camoly, this is one hell of a novel/novel series.

You can put me down for one, as soon as you publish this.


Keep it up!


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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/24/2009 5:11:28 PM   
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ORIGINAL: John 3rd


quote:

ORIGINAL: tocaff

Movement of shipping being dictated by what the enemy is capable of is an awful position to find yourself in.  Not only does the loss of initiative hurt, but the burning of precious fuel stocks just to avoid what might happen is harmful too.  The old "nowhere to run, nowhere to hide" noose is getting tighter.  


I thoroughly understand what you are going through and feel your pain!



That is a great point "nowhere to run, nowhere to hide", especially with no airforce to protect your ports. Good luck Hibiki, may you end this war with honor.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/24/2009 10:59:26 PM   
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ORIGINAL: RHoenig

I have just finished reading through this whole masterpice.

Cuttlefish, I am not sure if you are not a professionel writer in reality, but if you are not, you sure have missed your callig!!!

Holy camoly, this is one hell of a novel/novel series.

You can put me down for one, as soon as you publish this.

Keep it up!

Ralph Hoenig, Germany


I am astounded that people keep finding this thing and reading clear through it; it must take days by now. Thanks for the kind words!

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/24/2009 11:01:45 PM   
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January 29, 1945

Location: 110 miles east of Wonsan
Course: South
Attached to: TF 43
Mission: Bombardment
System Damage: 0
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 368

Orders: Proceed into Sea of Japan to evade enemy air attacks

---

Hibiki and the rest of the task force continues to cruise east of the Korean Peninsula while they wait for confirmation that the enemy carriers have indeed returned to Guam. Captain Ishii braves a cold westerly wind to stand on the starboard observation wing and gaze west towards the setting sun. A haze of clouds on the horizon turns the sky red as the sun descends behind them.

Lieutenant Miharu exits the bridge and comes to stand beside him.

“Good evening, sir,” he says.

“Good evening, Exec,” says Ishii. He gestures out to the west. “Sun and sea. I never get tired of watching them, somehow.”

“I wonder,” says Miharu, “how many years it will take before I stop peering into the sun’s track for periscopes and torpedo wakes. It takes some of the pleasure out of it for me, I admit.”

Ishii shrugs. “It gives me an excuse to stare out at the water. That used to get me into trouble, as a deckhand. Got my ears boxed by the bosun more than once for that when I was younger.”

Lieutenant Miharu knows that Ishii ran away to sea when he was around sixteen, following some sort of argument with his father, and that about four years later he entered the Naval Academy. This means that Ishii has been serving aboard one ship or another, merchant or military, for thirty years.

“Do you ever think you’ll leave the sea, sir?” he asks.

“I don’t think so,” says his captain, shaking his head. “It’s in my blood, as they say. There are still waters I haven’t seen, ports I haven’t called at. I owe my family some time ashore, I think, but by and large I expect I’ll keep sailing until I’m too old and feeble to pull my weight.”

Lieutenant Miharu nods. He appreciates the ocean but knows he does not have Ishii’s affinity for it. For him it is just a job, not a great deal different from serving in the mountains or the desert or some other environment, and when the time comes to return to civilian life on land he will do so without a backwards glance.

It is a lovely sunset, though. He stands by the rail next to Ishii and watches the interplay of light, shadow, and wave until darkness settles across the ocean.




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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/26/2009 3:42:47 AM   
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January 30, 1945

Location: near Kitakyushu
Course: South
Attached to: TF 43
Mission: Bombardment
System Damage: 0
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 296

Orders: Return to Kure

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Hibiki approaches Kanmon Strait as night approaches. Barring an encounter with an enemy submarine, which is not impossible, they should be back at the anchorage at Kure within a few hours. It feels unpleasantly strange to be creeping cautiously back to one of their own bastions.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/26/2009 3:45:56 AM   
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January 31, 1945

Location: Kure
Course: South
Attached to: TF 43
Mission: Bombardment
System Damage: 0
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 475

Orders: Return to Kure

---

Captain Ishii is not usually one to pay much attention to gossip or give credence to rumors. Yet some of the talk he hears when Hibiki docks at Kure to refuel is so grave that he goes ashore to see if he can find out at least part of the truth. He comes back aboard a little while later, his face grave.

Once aboard he assembles his officers and tells them that there has indeed been trouble over the appointment of Admiral Yonai as Prime Minister. The Army, after considerable arm-twisting, was persuaded to go along with it for the time being. But some radical elements, especially among the younger, more idealistic officers, have refused to accept it. At some point in the last few days their threats escalated to violence.

“Yonai is unharmed,” says Ishii, “and the situation is calm at present. But several men have been killed and things remain tense. The hope seems to be that with the war at a crisis point the dissenters will abandon their cause for the good of all.”

“As long as Yonai continues to prosecute the war with vigor the Army hotheads can hardly complain,” points out Sugiyura.

“But they will still fear his appointment means that Japan is open to negotiations,” says Lieutenant Miharu. He shakes his head. “Officers taking politics into their own hands. It has become almost an institution. Many in Japan scorn the Americans as soft and weak but I can tell you that any American officer who did such a thing would be dealt with most harshly.”

“So would any British officer,” says Sakati.

“And if they were German or Russian they would simply be shot out of hand,” adds Kuwaki.

“Apparently some have been shot,” says Ishii. “Though it was in all the confusion and not as punishment. But I do not know any of the details.”

---

Tokyo, two nights previously:

Chief Petty Officer Harano of the 54th Naval Guard Unit stands at attention outside the gated drive to Admiral Yonai’s private residence. When a sedan and two trucks turn onto the street and slow as they approach he is not surprised. He has been expecting trouble. There have been reports of clashes and unrest elsewhere in Tokyo since nightfall, though details are jumbled and hard to come by.

Harano has his orders, given to him by Commander Tezuka himself. They consist of two words - protect Yonai.

The vehicles pull up and soldiers hop out. The leader, who was in the sedan, is waving a sword. All of the men are Imperial Army soldiers and all are armed. Harano estimates there are about thirty of them.

“Stand aside!” says the officer, a colonel. He shoves the tip of his sword almost under Harano’s nose. Third Guards Division, notes Harano. Of course. If that lot had been assigned to protect Baker Island or some place like that things would be a lot calmer around here.

“No,” he says simply. He does not move and his seamed face does not change expression.

“What?” says the colonel in disbelief. “Listen, we are going to kill Yonai and we will not hesitate to kill you! You had better get out of the way!” The men around him chorus in agreement and several rifles are leveled at Harano. They are all scared and excited and their blood is up.

“Please listen to what I have to tell you,” he says to the men facing him. He deliberately pitches his voice low, forcing them to quiet down to hear him. “I apologize for not being able to obey your request, but I have my own orders. To carry out these orders I have two machine guns and a squad of marksmen out in the darkness covering this gate. If I am attacked they will open fire. Therefore I urge you to stop all this and go back to your barracks.”

“He is lying!” says a man standing next to the colonel. He lifts a pistol. “I will show you that we mean business!” The crack of a rifle comes from somewhere nearby, followed almost immediately by a second report. The man with the pistol cries out and collapses, blood pumping from two holes in his chest.

Everyone freezes for a second. In the Yonai residence a light comes on, and then another. The colonel stares at Harano in disbelief, then reaches slowly up and wipes a spatter of blood off his own cheek. He looks at his reddened hand in the lamplight, turning it over.

“You see that it is as I have said,” says Harano. The soldiers mill about uncertainly.

Suddenly the colonel bows. “I am sorry to have troubled you this evening,” he says. He barks an order and several men help the wounded man into one of the trucks. After a few quick arguments and some further apologies the soldiers all return to their vehicles and drive away.

Harano draws a bucket of water from a nearby well and thoughfully sluices the blood from the sidewalk, then returns to his post.


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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/26/2009 3:53:11 AM   
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Wow, Harano must be Shun's brother separated at birth. I would have needed a new pair of shorts after that confrontation.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/26/2009 8:12:11 AM   
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Speak softly, and have plenty of backup...

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/26/2009 9:23:29 AM   
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Wow, I thought Harano was bluffing !

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/26/2009 9:50:48 AM   
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If he can just keep Yonai alive for a bit longer, maybe Japan can have peace before her cities are burned to dust..

On the other hand, I want to see Hibiki fighting to the finish.. ahh, so complicated!

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/26/2009 6:31:30 PM   
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“Yonai is unharmed,” says Ishii, “and the situation is calm at present. But several men have been killed and things remain tense. The hope seems to be that with the war at a crisis point the dissenters will abandon their cause for the good of all.”

“As long as Yonai continues to prosecute the war with vigor the Army hotheads can hardly complain,” points out Sugiyura.

“But they will still fear his appointment means that Japan is open to negotiations,” says Lieutenant Miharu. He shakes his head. “Officers taking politics into their own hands. It has become almost an institution. Many in Japan scorn the Americans as soft and weak but I can tell you that any American officer who did such a thing would be dealt with most harshly.”

“So would any British officer,” says Sakati.

“And if they were German or Russian they would simply be shot out of hand,” adds Kuwaki.

“Apparently some have been shot,” says Ishii. “Though it was in all the confusion and not as punishment. But I do not know any of the details.


In the confrontation at the gate, only one man was shot, and wounded rather than immediately killed. It sounds like there were firing squads later . . .

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/26/2009 7:30:45 PM   
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Actually, from what I've read, the Japanese actually did NOT deal that harshly with (their own) usurpers.  Coup de tats were not that uncommon, and "defiance in the name of the Emporer" (even if the Emporer didn't really condone what you were doing), was largely tolerated.  In the previous coups, the perpetrators were often just jailed for a few months, or pardoned out-right.  Even within the military (esp IJA), there was a significant amount of physical (violence).  Not only rolling down-hill, but among officers, high to low, and low to high.  Yamammotos staff meetings were said to be quite physical at times. 

It's kind of wierd situation where obedience is absolute, unless you decide that your action/defiance/coup is really on behalf of the Emporer, and then it's your duty to do whatever.  And even after the fact, if your action resembes the defiant sacrifice of the 47 Ronin (or whatever they're called), then even tho you failed (so much the more noble), you were acting honorbly (albeit misguided).

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/26/2009 9:47:21 PM   
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Feinder is quite right about obedience and discipline in the IJA. There will almost certainly be no serious repercussions to Yonai's would-be assassins. In fact I would guess that if anybody was going to end up in trouble here it would be Harano.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/28/2009 1:13:20 AM   
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Cuttlefish, your audience wants more   

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/28/2009 3:05:47 AM   
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February 1, 1945

Location: Kure
Course: South
Attached to: TF 43
Mission: Bombardment
System Damage: 0
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 475

Orders: Return to Kure

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Kinsei glances up as someone climbs up onto the torpedo deck, then does a double-take.

“Hey, it’s Chuyo!” he says. He and several other torpedomen gather around their long-lost comrade.

“I just got back aboard,” Chuyo says in response to questions. “Yes, the doctors say I’m completely cured. They’ve been hanging on to me to try and find out why, in fact. I practically had to dig a tunnel to get out of there.”

“What’s this, then?” comes a voice. The men turn to see Lieutenant Sugiyura approaching and come to attention.

“Sir, it’s Chuyo,” says Hosogaya, stating the obvious. “He’s back.”

“So I see,” says Sugiyura. “I take it you have been cleared to return to duty, Chuyo?”

“Yes sir!’ says Chuyo.

“Good,” says the chief torpedo officer. He extends his left arm and hold his hand flat, palm down. “Show me your hand, like this.” Chuyo does so. Sugiyura looks at the hand, which is steady, and then up at Chuyo’s face. He nods.

“At ease,” he says. Chuyo assumes the stance with relief. He clamps his left hand with his right behind his back to stifle the faint tremor that runs through it. No one notices.

“I am glad to see you,” says Sugiyura. “We are undergoing frequent tactical redeployments these days but that will not always be the case. My gut tells me we have more torpedoes to launch before this war is over.” He starts to turn away, then turns back. “Oh, see Chief Shimomura for you duty assignment, Chuyo.” He leaves.

Chuyo excuses himself from his friends a moment later and goes stow his gear and get his assignment. He doesn’t dare hang around them too long if his hands are acting up again. It will pass quickly, he knows, and the episodes are happening less and less often. But it wouldn’t do for anyone to notice. If word reaches Lieutenant Sugiyura he would end up back in the hospital for sure.

And next time they might take precautions to keep him from running away.




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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 2/28/2009 7:45:12 PM   
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And next time they might take precautions to keep him from running away.



Well, well. I wonder if he really did have to dig a tunnel. Impressive display of loyalty to his shipmates -- but bad news for the Japanese pilot pool.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 3/2/2009 5:10:48 PM   
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I want to know why I am not getting the update e-mails? There must be an update forum bug.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 3/3/2009 1:38:25 AM   
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February 2, 1945

Location: Kure
Course: South
Attached to: TF 43
Mission: Bombardment
System Damage: 0
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 475

Orders: Return to Kure

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Hibiki is some 371 feet long with a beam of 34 feet. In this small space almost 200 men live and work. Even though the Japanese are used to crowded conditions occasional friction still results from having that many men occupy that little space. Especially when the ship is swinging idly at anchor and the men are unable to avoid confronting the dreadful evidence that Japan really is losing the war.

The officers are of course aware of this and do their best to keep the crew occupied. Lieutenant Miharu is generous in granting leave time, as it helps for the men to go ashore and blow off some steam. Calisthenics are held every day on the foredeck and if the weather was better Captain Ishii would no doubt have the men playing baseball again. Despite these efforts, however, tempers seem to flare more often these days.

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Pushing and insults have given way to actual fighting by the time Shun arrives on the scene. He stops about five feet from them in the narrow companionway that is their battleground and bellows for them to come to attention.

The sailors freeze immediately and almost comically in mid-grapple, their eyes sliding sideways to locate Shun. As soon as they see him they disentangle themselves and come to attention. Shun, they know, never issues an order twice.

As the men are not on duty Shun handles the matter himself. He hauls the offenders up on deck and puts them through a brutal series of exercises. When both men are trembling and hardly able to stand he finally relents.

“Take it off the ship next time,” Shun growls before letting them go. After they are gone he shakes his head. This is as tightly-knit a crew as he has seen but even so he expects to see more of this sort of thing. A mission would be good for morale, even if it was only escort duty. He hopes the Imperial Navy comes up with something for them to do soon other than trying to stay out of the enemy’s way.


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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 3/3/2009 3:36:48 PM   
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Hey Cuttlefish, how's your opponent doing?  Has as he made it to theater yet?  Have you guys resumed the game?

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 3/3/2009 5:04:31 PM   
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Hey Cuttlefish, how's your opponent doing?  Has as he made it to theater yet?  Have you guys resumed the game?


He is in theater now, according to the timetable he gave me, but I haven't heard from him yet. He expected to be incommunicado for about a month. It's been about that long so I hope to hear from him any day now.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 3/3/2009 5:18:50 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Hey Cuttlefish, how's your opponent doing?  Has as he made it to theater yet?  Have you guys resumed the game?


He is in theater now, according to the timetable he gave me, but I haven't heard from him yet. He expected to be incommunicado for about a month. It's been about that long so I hope to hear from him any day now.


That's normal. There is a few weeks of training he has to do before he arrives at his duty station. Then there's the time he has to spend with the unit he's replacing. Once he get's to his duty station, he's have regular email access.

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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 3/3/2009 5:34:05 PM   
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February 3, 1945

Location: Kure
Course: South
Attached to: TF 43
Mission: Bombardment
System Damage: 0
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 475

Orders: Return to Kure

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Several days of quiet follow a week of violence in the skies over Tokyo. The Japanese government, speaking through mouthpieces in the radio stations and newspapers, declares that the American air force has been smashed and defies them to return. Once again, it seems, Japan has won a great victory that takes them another long stride closer to total defeat.

Whatever the reason for the respite, the truth is that it is desperately needed. The surviving Japanese fighter pilots are exhausted and their fighting spirit has been blunted. Many of the remaining planes are damaged, as are the airfields. Rubble needs to be cleared away from damaged factories.

These periods of quiet usually mean that the enemy is preparing fresh attacks. This seems unlikely, given that tens of thousands of Allied troops are still tied down by continued resistance in the Bonins. Surely, the Japanese commanders tell themselves, not even the Americans have the resources to mount a new offensive yet. Surely not.


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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 3/3/2009 5:36:27 PM   
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Location: Kure
Course: South
Attached to: TF 43
Mission: Bombardment
System Damage: 0
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 475

Orders: Return to Kure

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When Chuyo retuned to the ship Lieutenant Miharu dutifully submitted the paperwork restoring him to active duty. Given the labyrinthine naval bureaucracy the response is unusually swift; today orders arrive transferring the torpedoman to the Yokahama Naval Hospital.

Lieutenant Miharu sits in his small cabin and contemplates the orders for a time. Previously Chuyo had been granted medical leave and sent to the hospital as a patient. His departure, which Miharu now understands to have been unauthorized, was therefore not going AWOL. These orders, it seems, are designed to rectify that oversight.

The lieutenant thoughtfully files the paperwork. He really must remember to act on it soon, he thinks to himself. Unless he forgets, of course, or the paperwork somehow gets lost. It is easy for these things to happen, especially during wartime.


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RE: Small Ship, Big War - 3/3/2009 5:41:52 PM   
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