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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/20/2013 10:35:43 PM

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The most dangerous job in the US Navy in WWII(c) is:

1) TBD crewman

2) Minesweeper crew, assigned to intercept incoming Jap battleships

3) Assignment to a Sea Bee Bn.

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/21/2013 12:02:10 AM

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And in the Real World (tm) the DU got offered a plce at uni today. She wants to do paediatric nursing.i

Congratulations, Lord Admiral. That's good news.

+1 ... I cannot do Ped's ... I found the PICU especally distressing .. it takes a very very special person to serve pediatric pt's ...[I do adult iICU about to earn my ACNP ...]

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/21/2013 4:18:16 AM

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Inventory of losses off Samar and Legaspi yesterday:

50 M3/M2's and halftracks

650 men (mostly from 193rd Construction Regt)

LST
LCT
AP x 2 (including a 20 pt Dutch AP)

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/21/2013 4:27:09 AM

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***************Bali Hai Club-Jolo, March 23, 1943(c)*******************

A large sign out front reads:

"FREE DANCES WITH REAL TAHITIAN GIRLS---50 CENT BEERS--GRAND OPENING!"

A huge line of GI's and Commonwealth troops queue up outside the establsihment.

Intensely pigmented young man with shaved head and broad smile standing on tree stump*: Welcome! Welcome! I am Idi Amin Dada, club-owner for life!

* The man is standing on the stump not the broad smile.

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/21/2013 4:28:43 AM

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/21/2013 4:35:16 AM

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"Col Douglas, sir, this doesn't look like NW Australia."

"I know, I know....

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/21/2013 5:27:33 AM

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*******************II US Fighter Command HQ, Jolo, March 23, 1943(c)*******************

Maj. Gen Wurtsmith, commanding: Where the Hell is everyone?

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/21/2013 2:12:45 PM

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Maj. Gen Wurtsmith

If I might say his admin (49) and inspiration (53) are rather low .. once troops/pilots get back from the club they are not going to be inspired to put forth effort on the war ..

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/21/2013 2:49:32 PM

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99 fatigue, but morale in the 93-94 range? Thank goodness they're Aussie diggers with impenetrable morale!

Just think if you'd used medical battalions of depressives, narcoleptics or CFS patients. Or California GOP members...

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/21/2013 3:14:02 PM

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They have "bottle fatigue" not "battle fatigue"

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 12:15:50 PM

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Everyone is on the move in Burma, I think we've been rumbled:

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 12:18:35 PM

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JJ's nemsis in Burma ploughs on...

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 6:23:17 PM

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Everyone is on the move in Burma, I think we've been rumbled:

Point of clarification: Are we the Jets or the Sharks?

Guy with B-ball: Joo better talk nice...or I will do a pirouette

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 6:38:43 PM

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Admiral Lord Sprior:

There are cucarachas del mar ENE of Sabang. Over and out.

Fleet Admiral Mandrake

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 6:51:57 PM

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***************PI Pranning**************

The toe-dipping operation at Legaspi is not going so well. The fast transport taffy did not unload suppries due to its encounter with &#^@**# Kuma. The base has zero suppry. Not one single aviation support point arrived by air transport. None of 3rd Marine Tank Bn has unloaded yet. We lost an LST and 2 AP's without getting anything ashore yet.

I blame the staff.

The good news is the air groups there are in remarkably good morale and with only about 30% disabled airframes.

The "main body" will pull back a bit more toward Butuan (Mindanao) and we will try to get the APD's in there. The remaining LST and LCT's at Legaspi should unload tonight (I hope) and then they can beat feet back toward Surigao.

Cagayn is now level 5. We bring up the resting B-24's at Saumlaki and go after Clark today.

The CV's/CVE's arriving off Western Mindanao today. IJN carriers have disappeared. Maybe they are heading around to the Eastern shore of Luzon or they just bugged out.

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 9:03:39 PM

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These blokes are raring to go:

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 9:07:35 PM

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Sabang

I wish I knew where that was

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 9:34:50 PM

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These blokes are raring to go:

Wow! They rejuvenated quickly! And 3 AEC Matadors too! I will send of the new APA's from Sydney.

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 9:36:23 PM

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Sabang

I wish I knew where that was

"Northern" tip of Sumatra. JJ probably started something from Singers when they spotted us in the Bay of Bengal.

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 9:40:12 PM

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Wow! They rejuvenated quickly!

They'd be even more potent if you had the other 18% of the unit. I assume that was just destroyed outright and hasn't yet been rebuilt, Lord Admiral?

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 9:40:18 PM

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The name seems kind of bellicose to me.

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 9:42:10 PM

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The name seems kind of bellicose to me.

(in sotto voce) Psst...mate...I think that's ze Germans. Look at ze Teutonic "Maltese" cross on the front of the cab...

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 9:44:04 PM

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Wow! They rejuvenated quickly!

They'd be even more potent if you had the other 18% of the unit. I assume that was just destroyed outright and hasn't yet been rebuilt, Lord Admiral?

They were at the Somm...err..I mean Port Hedrand.

You should see the 32nd ID

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 9:47:08 PM

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The name seems kind of bellicose to me.

(in sotto voce) Psst...mate...I think that's ze Germans. Look at ze Teutonic "Maltese" cross on the front of the cab...

Nope. It's from the Imperial War Museum Duxford. Some Commonwealth unit I am pretty sure.

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/22/2013 10:05:45 PM

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Some Commonwealth unit I am pretty sure.

231st Independent Brigade

Engagements

Second Battle of Gaza
Third Battle of Gaza
Battle of Beersheba
Battle of Epehy
Siege of Malta
Battle of Sicily
Adrano
D Day
Gold Beach
Operation Perch
Operation Market Garden
Nederrijn

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/23/2013 3:17:20 PM

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Battle of Beersheba? That was in the Bible, right? Man, that is a very historical unit.

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/23/2013 3:18:11 PM

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Air losses from the 25th

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RE: How could anything Sorong... be so right? - 3/23/2013 3:35:41 PM

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the PI

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Ahhh....Phuket - 3/23/2013 3:49:07 PM

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RE: Ahhh....Phuket - 3/23/2013 3:57:57 PM

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Just watched Argo last night. Fantastic film. Loved the Alan Arkin character. I can see why the Revolutionary Guards were unhappy about their portrayal but it seems to me the depiction of the revolution and embassy seizure were entirely fair. I think those were the most riveting crowd scenes I have ever scene on film. After the embassy attack I wanted to bomb something. That's why we are going after Clark Field today.

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