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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/21/2012 9:15:31 AM   
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The crump of the torpedo striking something, shatters the early dawn quiet of Akagis bridge.
All faces, including Nagumos haggard grey face, lined deep with fatigue, turn to the port.

Nagumos goes ashen white.

Shokaku is hauling out of line, the three balls already rising up her mast----------I am out of control---------this torpedo has bitten her in the arse........
Stunned silence fills Akagis bridge

"so close to home.....; croaks Hara. "So close to home........"

Nagumo sways. Then steadies himself. "My God. Thats three..........How will I ever explain ..........."

Abruptly, with out a further word, he leaves the bridge.

Hara, busy now chucking Akagi into a hard turn away, misses the Admirals departure.


But there is no missing, no mistaking the single gunshot from his cabin................

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/21/2012 9:20:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hidaka enters the ready room.
Its been a long day, and he is looking forward to a wash, clean clothes, and a run ashore.

Captain Takeji rises from his chair, a mountain of poker chips on the table before him. A pile considerably larger than most of the pilots spread around before him

"Aaaah!, my mighty eagle!. Come join us Hidaka, a mighty group of pilots you lead, flyers all, gamblers none!
Come and se if you can win some of their money back!. Drink!, of course..........."

And just like that, hurricane Takeji strikes the ready room, and sweeps all Hidakas plans for this evening away.............

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/21/2012 1:04:53 PM   
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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/21/2012 1:45:31 PM   
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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/21/2012 11:04:18 PM   
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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/21/2012 11:26:51 PM   
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As about reducing sub threat, training all divebomber units in ASW as their secondary skill and flying intensive patrols, in combination of assigning 9 DDs for each CVTFs worked well for me. There were some bad hits, but so far all carriers I've actually lost to subs were from small detached TFs en route to somewhere. I might be just lucky, though, and this way might be less beneficial now, as Judy got the shaft in terms of range in stock, so, no 7-hexes ASW sweeps from them anymore.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/22/2012 7:28:20 AM   
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ZORPEDO..........

12 dd escort
heavy asw patrol, as usual

I was just damn unlucky.......
40 days until I get all three back.............


grrrrrr

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/22/2012 8:42:21 AM   
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AAR open to him again for a few days


18/8/43

WO Fuchida enters his new home, 47th Sentai, Yokohama airbase.

When he was a child, Fuchida was never selected for the baseball team, for the soccer team, any team, for that matter
He was, lets put it bluntly, considered "a loser"
A childhood, I am sure many have shared.

But now, as he enters this ready room, and see's the faces, the so many famous faces.........
Aces, 3, 4, 5, 7 of them...........
And everywhere, faces that speak of years of flying, of experience, of courage and skill.
The best, of the very best, gathered in his old unit.
And , his friends remain too.........

His heart swells.
Loser no more
Fuchida enters Japans new, crack, absolutely crack fighter unit.
And make no mistake

he deserves to be there.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/23/2012 4:18:56 AM   
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This month, (in this year 2012) audiences sat down (and mostly wasted their money) and watched one of the worlds last battlewagons take on the evil aliens.
A ridicoulous movie, one that many here cringe at.
But one thing in it realy struck myself, the way that this mighty ship was started just like a car, and away we go..........

What a crock

But, then, this i suppose, shows how history swallows things. In 100 years, who will know how a steam plant ran?
In a thousand?
Not many.
And records, I think, will be thin.

Getting a battle wagon, or a carrier going, is no easy thing.

At exactly midnight, the fleets new Commander, Admiral Kondo, only 2 hours into his job, orders the singapore ships to sea.
Nearly all the ships are still steaming auxiliary, so they won't be coming up from cold, but (for the battleships especially), many, a great many hours will be needed.

The crews, for one, will have to be roused. many, far too many, are actually ashore.
This in itself could be a story.
No mobile phones
No TV
No radio broadcasts
Just a gazzillion bars and brothels to be scoured, to be roused out.
By 0300 hours a stream of men are passing through Sembawang gates, many staggering.
All sour.
Hundreds of boats shuttle to the fleet at anchor, a fleet where funnels in the dozens shovel thick black smoke
Gun barrel covers are coming of, and the flashing lights blink from every bridge
Fuel, last minute stores, formation orders, requests, they all light up the dark

The hive has been stirred


And yet, as it has happened before, and will happen again, in any Navy, in any time, it shakes itself down.
0800 hours, and all report ready.
Mighty anchors drag singapore basin mud into the air.
Fire hoses wash it away
Sirens sound, men race to positions
Sterns churn in great white storms

As they always have, always will.
The fleet sails on time.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/23/2012 4:25:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Takeji takes but two minutes to show his mettle.

'Obey telegraphs!"
No smiles here, no laughter behind the eyes.
A ruthless bark of orders, whip cracking across the bridge
'Hard to Port!. half astern port, haqlf ahead starboard!, away all lines!"

Zuiho, as if suddenly startled, swings her arse away from the pier, her bow beginning to nudge in

"Half astern both!"
'Full astern both!'
Stop both!
Ahead full both, hard to starboard!
half ahead both!

hasegawa could not drive to save himself
kato was competent
Takeji, on this, drives as ships should be driven
Take them in bloody hand, and just do it.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/23/2012 4:33:45 AM   
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Try that again you little ****...........

The gland steam controller has played up. For ten minutes, port shaft has been on reduced revolutions, only now returned to where they have been all day

At full ahead

A busy day indeed

Full revolutions ever since sailing, and a day of constant niggles.
And the new skipper................

Charge has served a long time on zuiho now, never, ever, ever, has a Captain tested her capabilities like Takeji has today
He has thrown her about like a destroyer, testing her handling, testing her reactions
He has tested her guns, her damage control parties. Already Hidaka has CAP in the air.
And Minobe has been hounded down below twice today already.

The Engineer himself, sweating hard, peers too at the guage
"Fixed charge?" Anxiety fills his voice
'Hie!'
'Good!. I think the Devil himself stalks the bridge charge!, the devil himself!'
He scuttles away, up to the bridge again.

Charge smiles
No sculking in your cabin Minobe this cruise my friend. No more.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/23/2012 4:38:08 AM   
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15th army has stopped Marching

On the crest of a ridge, deep in the jungles of Burma, 15th army digs

The Aussies are coming

Here, here deep in this hell, we will see, he thinks as his hole deepens swiftly, just what these bronze warriors are made of.
It is a blessed relief. No more endless marching. No more 'manouvering'
No more wondering.
15th Army prepares to make its stand.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/24/2012 4:14:13 AM   
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Bhamo

A point not mentioned on an atlas anywhere in 43
A thousand foot high ripple, standing above the velvet green some 30 miles long, split dead in the middle by a single dirt road going North

baked by the sun, with out water, and with little shade
A hell of a place to stop.
But here, just to the west of the road, Hoshos company digs in

he has 1000 yards to cover, a trick job, he has only four heavy machine guns to do it with
behind, some 2000 yards, division artillery, a thousand behind that, Corps as well.

It on these guns, Hosho pins his hopes.

For the last day and a half, he has been anywhere up to 3000 yards of the line, climbing trees
A monkeys job, but monkeys do not leave flags in the canopy.

There is insufficient ammunition to pre register, nor an inclination to reveal that here the army will stand.
Thus the flags.
Hosho faces , on his line, what appears to be deep jungle, impenetrable.
A day in it, and its heavy canopy, but light underbrush........filled with trails.

Animal, human, who knows.

The Aussies, will be able to close.


On the ridge, the weapon of choice, the grenade, the home made bomb.
Whatever happns here, it is going to be hard, close, and with out mercy.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/24/2012 4:22:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Zuiho plows on, 20 plus knots creaming from her bow

Takeji continues to work her hard, and, it seems himself as equally hard.

He is everywhere, that round face, sweat streaming from it. On the bridge, barking orders, in the hanger, examining his men, in the engine rooms, where his knowledeg of Japanese steam systems becomes immediately apparent.
Cutting questions, sharp questions.

Hurricane Takeji sweeps through the ship.

How many times does he say it today."Hurry up!, the war will not wait!"
Hurry up!
Hurry up!

There is, however, following him, laughter, jokes, smiles.
Encouragement.
Do wrong, and the tongue lashes......
Do right, and be rewarded.

But above all............hurry up!, the war will not wait!

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/24/2012 4:24:41 AM   
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In peace, you know where you are going
In war, only when you arrive


They sail across hot waters, calm waters.
The heat rises.
Clever men can tell they head south, across the tropical zones..........

But other than that, the ocean flows as always astern

And as always, the war looms ahead.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/24/2012 4:26:37 AM   
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The marines attack at Finchesen

A new experience this, to attack.

And to be rebuffed.

They kill 600 japanese men today, lose 70.
But capture nothing, advance not a foot.


And at lae?

Exactly the same today..............

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/24/2012 4:30:41 AM   
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CV Unryu arrives.
Commissioned quietly, with out fuss, she raises her flag at Yokohama.
She needs a few more planes.

And a few more companions.
So she rides at anchor, and waits.




The japanese ss wolf pack pounces at Salamaua, sinks an entire convoy of 3 AKs
They burn all night these ships.
A future PT boat base, rising as smoke into the sky.


Japanese high command considers the situation, and gambles

'reinforce the battle"!

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/24/2012 5:30:12 PM   
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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/25/2012 10:23:15 AM   
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Done a set of rounds, a watch below.

But I want to repeat this, for a simple reason.
We can go all over the world in this little story, visit many characters, many ships, bases, jungles.
The Stokers of Zuiho cannot. Every six hours or so, the boilers rooms and engine rooms, the auxiliary spaces..........they are there, the watch HAS to be done.
Below decks, here, on the equator, is hell. Sweat streams from you wherever you go on Zuiho now, the heat saps at you, tears you down

In the boilers rooms, it is now sheer torture.
On the top plates, merely to breath is an effort, to open valves, to operate machinery, a marathon
Men regularily collapse, men sway, men faint.

dantes inferno in motion.

But the work must go on, the machinery -overheating machinery at that, must be tended, must be maintained.

Limbs quaking, men will finish watches, and collapse on the starboard gangways and companion ways, and drink the breeze they help produce, the only breeze today in fact, Zuiho passing over mirror seas........

And, soon, they must do it again

And again

And again

and again.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/25/2012 10:29:26 AM   
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The defences at Lae begin to collapse, the defence now a rat hunt, the Japanese the poor rats.
the bite, snarl, claw back, but cannot answer the science the amaericans bring with them, the tank, the flame throwers, the 500 lb bombs

At Akyab, for the second day running, 60 Japanese bombers pound the strip.
Here, at least, Japan still fights on equal terms.

And reinforcements are still coming.
Enough, thinks 20th army, to even consider a counter attack.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/26/2012 10:41:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		For the third day in a row now the bombers have come over, 60 plus.

They fly into a sky swept clean of the enemy by massed sweeps of fighters ahead of them

Down whistle the bombs, plowing yet more holes into this wreck of an airfield, into the shattered wrecks of the planes caught on the ground


This field, now, is closed

Tomorrow the attention will turn north


Akyab airfield, has been closed......................by the JAPANESE.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/26/2012 10:45:23 AM   
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Zuiho enters the banda sea, still a mirror of water, ships shimmering in the heat and the haze
Overhead, the ASW patrols continue, thankfully, with few contacts.

The enemy carriers in the solomon sea have faded away.
Will they strike here next?

Takeji is not the only one hoping that they will.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/26/2012 3:46:48 PM   
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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/27/2012 6:42:11 AM   
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Not Japanese really, but a glimpse, I think, of a sailors perspective

(this is not my work)

Naval Units of Measurement
These units are neither metric nor imperial but are of a scale that can be precisely understood by the
salt encrusted tar and his long suffering messmates.
Unit Description
2 squirts of cats piss:
The exact amount of concern the COXN1 shows you when you advise him you have lost your wallet.

2/5 of 5/8 of the square root of FA
The formula used by DEFPAY to calculate pay increases after tax.

Age(s) The time it takes to get to the front of any queue.

Bee's dick :The difference between the length of the piece of shoring you have cut too short
and the actual distance it needs to stretch. This is only discovered after an
enormous amount of effort has been expended to get the shoring back to where it
was needed and just before discovering that there is no more lumber available for
shoring.

Buckets; The amount of ice cream available to the (apparently) vindictive and mean minded
cooks who have seemingly singled you out for ice cream starvation.

Bulk: The number of Chux cloths held by the Bosun's Store which will never be used.

Chockas :How full your boot bag has become over the course of one deployment.

Crock :The amount of misleading information given to you by a Leading Hand who thinks
he's funny.

Diddley squat: The amount of concern the entire mess feels when the cooks run out of parsley.

Dollop :The amount of sunscreen which will cover all bare skin and be absorbed without
leaving a mess, and which you asked for in the first place.

Ginormous: The size of the piece of equipment you have to fit into a compartment that is smaller
than a shoe box.

Gutfull: The amount of experience required prior to discharge.

Heaps: The approximate amount of ice cream the guy in front of you has been given by the
cooks.

Huge: A point on an open-ended scale used to judge how good a run ashore was which
lies roughly between GREAT and BRILLIANT.

Humungous: The size of the bouncer you just called a "brainless **** head" for not letting you into
the club/pub (he claims you are too inebriated) and who intends to discuss it with
you in the car park.

Jot: The amount of physical effort required to turn off the lights when you leave a
compartment which is, amazingly, too much to expend.

Mega: A "new age" expression which indicates an exceptional run ashore where we had a
great time, but just can't remember the details right now.

Nipply: The temperature has dropped to the stage where you are covered in goosebumps
but the QM will still not let you wear your woolley pulley.

Unit Description
Pinch-o-**** :The amount of misleading advice you include in good advice which makes it
hilarious and adds spice to vital points.

Poofteenth: The distance the end of your rifle barrel moved while you were at attention in the
guard which caused the POBM's red faced tirade and apparent epileptic fit.

Poofteenth of a fairey's fart:
This is the exact amount by which your pay will increase when you get promoted.

Schmick: This is a measurement of the minimum amount of common sense the new Seaman
will require but which they appear not to have.

**** tin: A weight measurement indicating the precise amount a person may carry, plus 2
kilograms

****load: Although often confused with **** tin, this is an estimation of the amount already
carried from the wharf and around the ship before someone finally decides where to
store it. (total distance of approx. 40 nautical miles)

Smidgen/
smidge:
Enough oil to lubricate a device and still leave enough to drip freely onto a freshly
painted deck.

Squillions: The contents of the pay packet of an average maintainer.

Stinking hot: The temperature achieved only in the tropics which is noted when the paint dries on
the brush before it can be applied to the deck.

Stuff all: The amount of ice cream you receive.

Stuff all: How much toilet paper is left in Naval Stores a week prior to the end of the
deployment.

Tad: A squirt of sunscreen that is slightly more than that required to cover a patch of skin
and will not be absorbed by the skin, but will leave greasy smears on skin and
clothing.

Truck loads: Approximate amount of stores which have been delivered to the ship and which
must be brought onboard by you and one scrawny writer with a bad back.

Yonks: Either the time it takes for seaweed to grow on the hull or to get a chief out of the
mess.

You beauties: An approximation on how new and useful a piece of equipment is despite the user
having no experience on it.

Zip: What’s left in your wallet after a good port.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/27/2012 9:12:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ono Takeji stands where hasegawa once stood(and died), and where Kato too spent many hours.
There are many types of captains, all have strong personalities - all need them to simply reach command.
All drive ships differently

Things have changed..............
Takeji does not drive Zuiho, he dominates her.
from the moment the call "Captain on the bridge!", to the moment he leaves, a undercurrent of excitement flows through the men about him.
It is triggered by many things.
The barking, stinking rebukes aimed at the tiniest mistakes.
Tempered by the gentle 'well dones" when things are, well, well done.
The two speeds that Zuiho seems to do now days.
Iether stopped. Or at full power. You can almost feel Takeji's frustration when Zuiho is forced to maintain station.
But always, always, when she turns into the wind,.."Revolutions 320!"
And seemingly, always with those revs, the wheel will be thrown as hard as it can be.

Things have changed............
Hidaka walks a fine line between elation -A fighting man, a real fighting man!-and utter despair.
'Why are there only three birds on CAP?....why did that launch take so long!
I want a ASW patrol now!
Prepare a full strike!. Done, good!, but why?.............but why?..............but why?"
Zuiho is operating at a tempo not seen since she actually fought the dutch in these waters, planes flying from before dawn to dusk.
A crushing routine.

Other things have changed........
Minobe has been summoned to the bridge, and a lashing administered the likes never heard on the bridge.
Zuiho reacts too slow, Zuiho is dirty, ......................but above all..........why is the state of her damage control training so lametable...

Zuihos guns bark daily now, balloons stream from her deck, and drift away, and the 25mms bark.
The gun crews cannot complain when Takeji lashes them for missing.
A rifle sits beside his chair now on the bridge, a loaded one at that.
Three, four times a day it barks, as the Captain takes aim at any unfortunate sea creature whoms path they cross.
Nobody suns themselves on the starboard side now, the crack , smack of the gun is too un nerving.
Zuiho steams, and leaves a trail of dead sea snakes in her wake....


Oh yes, things have changed.



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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/27/2012 9:21:53 AM   
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26/8/43

Continue to progress across the banda sea.
Should meet main battle line tonight, awaiting recon of bathurst island for decision on strike.
I am pleased with the ship
With reservations

Boat drills -are poor.
Gunnery is .........poor to good. heavy AA guns are good, 25 mm are useless

Flight deck operations are superb, this ship has not had an operational loss for many, many months.
It shows.
I have full confidence in air groups, skill here is high.

Engineering
Engineer is weak
The Charge is of poor discipline and far too lenient too his men. However the engines react well, and she steams well.
However, Zuiho shows her many miles steamed. Rust is winning on this ship. but the war will be won before the rusts wins this battle.

Medical. Satisfactory, although undermanned.

Executive department appears competent.

Overall, a good ship, that needs more discipline, and greater fighting spirit. its been too long since she saw action, and too many men here are resting on the lurals of the last battles.
But they will do their duty.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/27/2012 9:28:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Charge takes his spot in damage control central, and opens the nightly meeting.
The list of things is long.

for a start, water as been found in an aviation fuel filling point in the hanger -a critical, adominable defect. Water can kill a plane, kill pilots.
It has been a long time since this problem has occurred, but then again, its been a long time since so much fuel has been used, or transferred.
Wearily he listens to the CPO in charge, yes, he agrees, they have not used that tank for a long time -strip it first.....
Minobe utters a few words about the testing.............and charge waits for a violent outburst, the usual passing of the punishment he recieved today on the bridge to one of them..............

But it does not come.

Then, the forward emergency generator.
gods, he hates diesels.
No, he has no idea why it won't start.
yes, Hirate, Okano are working on it...........

And so it goes, deep into the evening today.
Zuiho is being driven hard, ship and men alike

gods, he is so tired.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/27/2012 9:38:20 AM   
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'Baka!'
'Truk, truk, truk!"

he fights her straight as the wire catches, pulls him to a stop.
Another curse escapes from his lips -Hidaka frowning down from the ridicolous little bridge.
That was a crap landing Ogawa, he tells himself, absolutely crap.
Angrily he slams the cockpit.

"Bloody heap of **** plane."

All day he has flown CAP, sharing with Hiyos men.
THEY have shiny new planes. Not like this worn out junk heap.
THEY have spacious quarters, and a big fat deck.
Not like here.

Ogawa, you are pissed of. take a look at yourself. 300 plus missions, still kicking. Get a grip.
Get a grip.
wearily he climbs down as eager hands push his bird forward.
"Sorry chief, I broke it"
His crew chief merely nods. "Not the first today , nor I expect the last"
"No, I suppose not"
No. But he should not be breaking them at all

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/27/2012 9:44:34 AM   
1275psi

 

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Status: offline 		To 3rd Air army Burma, today is bittersweet day

Overnight, the heavy bombers come to mandalay, streams of them, and all night the bombs have fallen

36 bombers , 20 fighters destroyed on the ground.

Bitter

But sweet, in this. The enemy have abandoned the air war in daylight. They take the cowards way.
They admit they cannot control the air.

Good.
There is only one action that can be taken.
Attack, keep on attacking.





from
Burma command
to
20th Army

You will immediatly advance east from Katha, target M, with intention of driving enemy back into India
15th Army shall hold enemy to south of M.
Engage enemy with full vigour.

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RE: The little ship that could. - 6/28/2012 4:11:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Great yarn.

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Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.
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