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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 5:35:51 PM

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Port Hedrand: Got some P-40K's sitting around itching to get into the fight? Figure they would level bomb from 15K?

Dumb ***. (Admiral Lord SPrior is completely off the hook on this one...the SP is out looking for the guilty party.

Afternoon Air attack on 16th Army, at 57,129 (Port Hedland)

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 20 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 22

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 5 damaged
P-40K Warhawk: 1 destroyed by flak

Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-40K Warhawk bombing from 100 feet *

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 5:42:49 PM

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Back to Darwin: B-24 and B-17 prep raids from Alice and Merauke are grounded. Instead we get this limp-wristed effort from the LB-30's.

Afternoon Air attack on 38th/A Division, at 76,124 (Darwin)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 6

No Allied losses

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

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 8000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 8000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

So, let's review. The BB-force is repulsed. The B-24's and B-17's sit idle. This doesn't look good. Too late to call it off.

First, JJ, inexplicably tries another arty bombardment.

Ground combat at Darwin (76,124)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12074 troops, 114 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 460

Defending force 44686 troops, 764 guns, 784 vehicles, Assault Value = 1416

Japanese ground losses:
436 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 5:46:32 PM

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Th tension builds... Dare I look?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 5:50:25 PM

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Here we go. 60 M-10's and M-3's, 15K infantry and 760 artillery/mortar tubes.

Ground combat at Darwin (76,124)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 38947 troops, 716 guns, 749 vehicles, Assault Value = 1416

Defending force 15374 troops, 152 guns, 147 vehicles, Assault Value = 428

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Allied adjusted assault: 2914

Japanese adjusted defense: 180

Allied assault odds: 16 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Darwin !!!

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
D3A1 Val: 4 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 16 destroyed
Ki-30 Ann: 3 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed

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

Japanese ground losses:
4721 casualties reported
Squads: 86 destroyed, 50 disabled
Non Combat: 200 destroyed, 52 disabled
Engineers: 130 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 99 (85 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 141 (133 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Units retreated 9
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
1036 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 79 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 42 disabled

Assaulting units:
2nd USMC Engineer Regiment
7th Australian Division
193rd Tank Battalion
I Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
2/1 AIF Pioneer Battalion
632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
22nd Marine Regiment
6th Australian Division
6th Marine Regiment
1st Marine Regiment
2/2 AIF Pioneer Battalion
225th Field Artillery Battalion
2/9th Field Regiment
South Pacific
2nd RAAF M/W Sqn
134th Field Artillery Battalion
21/22 Field Regiment
2nd Australian Hvy AA Regiment
2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion
8th Marine Defense Battalion
369th Coast AA Regiment
I US Amphib Corps
2/11th Field Regiment
16th USN SeaBees /1

Defending units:
18th Tank Regiment
4th Engineer Co
38th/A Division
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
38th/B Division
52nd JNAF AF Unit
22nd Ind.AA Gun Co
107th JAAF AF Bn
53rd JNAF AF Unit
5th Div /2

Huh...how about that? Odd that the defenders were less prepared.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 5:55:05 PM

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Th tension builds... Dare I look?

Sure, dare.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 6:01:24 PM

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**************SOUPAC Communications tent, Darwin, 18:24, Jan 6, 1943(c)**************

Sparks: Sir, you might want to see this. It was in the clear, from a....<looks at message> Rord Admirar Fabertong.

OOD: Read it.

Sparks: "......I left a few personal items at my villa in Darwin......could you just bag them and pop them in the post for me?"

OOD: Villa?

Sparks: Yes sir. I think so. Might have been "Virra"

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 7:07:10 PM

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Good to see what you can achieve with long-ahead planning and well read (I'm talking about the manual) players.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 8:57:25 PM

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Thanks Grollub. All the steps did work well.

1) 18th Div advances on Katherine to draw IJA units south at least one Regiment of 38th Div

2) Gove ready in time to provide LRCAP and logistical support

3) Operational surprise achieved. No garrison on Bathurst. 50% of the IJA infantry in the area at Katherine. No CD guns at Darwin.

4) Merauke ready in time to support 4E bombers. Transfer of bombers to Alice and Merauke apparently did not tip them off on the target. Darwin arifield largely reduced by aerial bombardment.

5) This wasn't part of the plan but the IJA counterattack at Dobo consumed essentially 2 divisions of reserves.

6) Airfield at Bathurst made it safer to disembark the second wave troops at Darwin.

IJN carrier losses in the fight for Port Hedrand made them unable or unwilling to risk a carrier duel over Darwin.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 9:08:49 PM

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Pretend I didn't read the manual. Why was the Allied Assault Value doubled in the Darwin attacK?

There were no (+) attacker modifiers listed.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 9:59:30 PM

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Pretend I didn't read the manual. Why was the Allied Assault Value doubled in the Darwin attacK?

There were no (+) attacker modifiers listed.

Good ol' Western know how!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 10:03:35 PM

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Wow - nice result, especially with the bonus of all those damaged aircraft [for which he did not have enough mules to haul them across the desert]!
Which tank crews became aces today?

He was seriously short on combat troops - way more support troops eliminated.
About the prep - he probably had them prepping for Sydney after they took Darwin.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 10:37:17 PM

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Which tank crews became aces today?
He was seriously short on combat troops - way more support troops eliminated.
About the prep - he probably had them prepping for Sydney after they took Darwin.

Yes...I suspect the M-10 crews had a field day. Lots of Ronsons of the former 18th Imperial Tank Regt are now scrap metal.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/12/2012 11:47:59 PM

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YES!

My Darwin IJA January 1943(c) put purchase really came in big! Well before the time decay nearing options expiration too!

Minus the premium, that's....$753,000,000 USD in 1943(c) terms that M&M now owes Captain Morita.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 12:30:57 AM

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YES!

My Darwin IJA January 1943(c) put purchase really came in big! Well before the time decay nearing options expiration too!

Minus the premium, that's....$753,000,000 USD in 1943(c) terms that M&M now owes Captain Morita.

You might want to check the fine print. I discovered mine was payable in Tannanese dollars. The $1 million Tannanese bill has a pciture of Ensign McGoo.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 2:08:30 AM

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Which tank crews became aces today?
He was seriously short on combat troops - way more support troops eliminated.
About the prep - he probably had them prepping for Sydney after they took Darwin.

Yes...I suspect the M-10 crews had a field day. Lots of Ronsons of the former 18th Imperial Tank Regt are now scrap metal.

Whoa - that' s a lot of scrap AFVs! I never even looked at the vehicles destroyed when I made the aces comment - I meant "aircraft destroyed" aces. No doubt there will be a lot of multi-aces in the "vehicle destroyed" category!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 3:23:00 AM

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YES!

My Darwin IJA January 1943(c) put purchase really came in big! Well before the time decay nearing options expiration too!

Minus the premium, that's....$753,000,000 USD in 1943(c) terms that M&M now owes Captain Morita.

You might want to check the fine print. I discovered mine was payable in Tannanese dollars. The $1 million Tannanese bill has a pciture of Ensign McGoo.

Awww man...just like my Zimbabwe dollars investment from a few years back. I thought that $100,000,000,000,000 note with Mugabe's portrait on it would be worth at least something. I couldn't even buy Lesotho, it turns out...

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 6:11:11 AM

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YES!

My Darwin IJA January 1943(c) put purchase really came in big! Well before the time decay nearing options expiration too!

Minus the premium, that's....$753,000,000 USD in 1943(c) terms that M&M now owes Captain Morita.

You might want to check the fine print. I discovered mine was payable in Tannanese dollars. The $1 million Tannanese bill has a pciture of Ensign McGoo.

Awww man...just like my Zimbabwe dollars investment from a few years back. I thought that $100,000,000,000,000 note with Mugabe's portrait on it would be worth at least something. I couldn't even buy Lesotho, it turns out...

Nice colours, but what's the significance of the pile of elephant dung?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 12:24:19 PM

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

YES!

My Darwin IJA January 1943(c) put purchase really came in big! Well before the time decay nearing options expiration too!

Minus the premium, that's....$753,000,000 USD in 1943(c) terms that M&M now owes Captain Morita.

You might want to check the fine print. I discovered mine was payable in Tannanese dollars. The $1 million Tannanese bill has a pciture of Ensign McGoo.

Awww man...just like my Zimbabwe dollars investment from a few years back. I thought that $100,000,000,000,000 note with Mugabe's portrait on it would be worth at least something. I couldn't even buy Lesotho, it turns out...

Nice colours, but what's the significance of the pile of elephant dung?

I believe that it's the value (purchasing power parity) of this particular denomination.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 1:30:46 PM

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Well done taking Darwin!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 2:02:02 PM

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Now we just have to capture the rest of Western Australia.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 3:15:21 PM

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[/quote]

*****************Robert Mugabe Megamall, Starbucks****************

Customer: Ummm...I'll have the doble espresso.

Barrista: Anything else today?

Customer: No, that's it.

Barrista: That will be 12 Trillion Dollars

Customer: 12 Trillion? Didn't it used to be 8?

Barrista: Shade grown.

Customer: I blame the white farmers. Damnit, well your gonna have to break a 100 Trillion

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 3:44:00 PM

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I remember once in a high school biology class, a legtimate anatomical question came up regarding The Vajayjay.

A sheltered girl raised her hand. I immediately sensed there was trouble ahead but the teacher called on her.

"What's a vagina?"

Doh! There were a few snickers but I think most of the non-sociopaths in the room felt embarrassment once removed.

With that preamble, here is my question, is that 100 Trillion note real?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 4:01:55 PM

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High School? You were late developers.

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Dementia Screening Tool - 6/13/2012 4:02:27 PM

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We have this new dementia screeing "tool" at work. It's not a trephining drill, it's a list of yes or no questions...about 10. We had a presentation by a health educator trained to administer the screening test and standardized cognitive assessment test.

For about half of the screening tool, a yes answer is deemed a normal variant. For eg., "Do you sometimes misplace your keys?"

For the other half, a yes answer is deemed potentially pathological and the subject is advised to take the entire cognitve screening test for dementia.

Here is one of the critical questions......."Have you ever started to tell a joke and then realized you already told it?"

You do that once and next week you need a drool bib and adult diapers??? Santa Maria!

The complete test is quite carefully standardized for educational level, age......and...wait for it....sex. Yes, that's right. In some fashion, the grading is either easier for men or women

I assume it is standardized for the sex you were born with and not whether you are getting any or not. Anyway, it was a mixed audience (men and women) so I politely asked which sex had to have their scores standardized down. She looked at me quite annoyed and said she "couldn't break the key".

I took that to be admission that men are superior and reflexively snickered a bit. Oh man did she want to kill me. I could see it in her eyes. Thank God women aren't as violent either.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 4:03:09 PM

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High School? You were late developers.

Well, I did say she was sheltered.

It wasn't a sex education class. I think it was a cow dissection or somethting.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 4:03:38 PM

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Yes. Prior to 2009 the Zimbabwe hyper-inflation resulted in absurd notes like this getting produced en masse. Very Weimar-republic wheelbarrow-full-of-cash for a loaf of bread sort of thing. Sometime in 2009, they stopped pretending that the Zimbabwe dollar had any value and just recognized de facto denominating in the Rand, USD and Pound.

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RE: Dementia Screening Tool - 6/13/2012 4:05:41 PM

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Here is one of the critical questions......."Have you ever started to tell a joke and then realized you already told it?"

Dood. You already told us this about this test. Last week. Twice.

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RE: Dementia Screening Tool - 6/13/2012 4:09:42 PM

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Here is one of the critical questions......."Have you ever started to tell a joke and then realized you already told it?"

Dood. You already told us this about this test. Last week. Twice.

Oh ****! Hey, did anybody see where I put my package of Depends?

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RE: Dementia Screening Tool - 6/13/2012 4:12:14 PM

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Dr. Grumpy's patient quote of the day:

"I have a huge pituitary tumor. They told me it was pressing on my sciatic nerve."

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 6/13/2012 4:14:59 PM

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Now we just have to capture the rest of Western Australia.

It would be nice to capture PH to free up some of the infantry and put a lid on Broome from the West. The rest of the LYB's in Oz might oblige us by starving. Probably we can move some of the heavies back to Meekathara and pound the daylights out of PH.

I have one Marine Regt about 20% prepped for Wyndham, but that is it.

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