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vonTirpitz -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 1:00:30 AM)


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ORIGINAL: geobaz

During the Battle of Jutland, and shortly after a salvo struck HMS Princess Royal a signalman promptly leapt onto the bridge of Admiral Beatty's flagship, HMS Lion, and announced "Princess Royal's blown up, Sir." Beatty famously turned to his flag captain, saying "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."


Beatty's comment is by far my favorite thus far [&o]

That is right up there with Futurama's Captain Zap Brannigan when he shouts at his own troops... "Stop exploding you cowards!" [:D]

T



dorjun driver -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 3:06:00 AM)


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ORIGINAL: USS America

Here's another one, " Is patch 2 ready yet?"  - USS America.  [:D]


USS America spots the question (and wins one free internet)!



stevemk1a -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 4:11:35 AM)

A good exchange I read a while back on another forum involves RN Admiral Cunningham during a sortie into the Eastern Med. Apparently, his fleet was being shadowed by an Italian Caproni bomber. A large Sunderland flying boat happend upon the scene, and the following transmissions ensued:


"Am giving chase," came one message from the Sunderland.

A little later, "Am engaging Caproni."

Finally, "Have splashed Caproni." To which the Admiral sent a reply, "You big bully."



Rising-Sun -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 5:37:31 AM)

heh i like that part in the movie "Mister Robert", that Captain always giving him a hard time. Remember that pet palm tree he had on the deck chained up? "Now hear this, im gonna get that sonofabitch and take him from the rear!" This is the part when tony curtis threw that tree overboard, and the capt want to know who done it.



Sardaukar -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 7:37:13 AM)

Chief from quad-mounted 40mm AA gun on CVE White Plains (in Task Force "Taffy 3") in Battle of Samar, when IJN cruiser Chokai and 3 other cruisers were closing in:

"Hold on a little longer, boys! We are sucking them into 40mm range!"

Same action, Ernest E. Evans, commanding USS Johnston: "Prepare to attack major portion of Japanese fleet!"



RevRick -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 1:16:18 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

Chief from quad-mounted 40mm AA gun on CVE White Plains (in Task Force "Taffy 3") in Battle of Samar, when IJN cruiser Chokai and 3 other cruisers were closing in:

"Hold on a little longer, boys! We are sucking them into 40mm range!"

Same action, Ernest E. Evans, commanding USS Johnston: "Prepare to attack major portion of Japanese fleet!"


They really ought to name a Burke Class after this Captain. One of, it not the best, example of tin can fighting in USN history.



Terminus -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 1:24:56 PM)

"This is the Henderson Field Designs answering machine. We've all decided to take the rest of 2009 and the first three quarters of 2010 off. Look for patch 2 sometime in December 2010."



BaitBoy -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 1:33:34 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Mynok


And let us not forget the greatest of sea admirals who said:

“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.”



In WitP I had an RN aircraft capt. who lived (and died) by this saying . . .



xj900uk -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 1:39:17 PM)

At the battle of Leyte Gulf, just before the Rear Admiral (can't remember his name) was about to order his DD's & DE's to attack Kurita's massive battleships & heavy cruisers,  he sent a signal around his fleet - 'We now have the opportunity to really kick some Japanese Ass hard' then turned to his second-in-command and asked him in a curiously timid voice 'Can you swim?'



morganbj -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 1:40:18 PM)


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ORIGINAL: RisingSun

heh i like that part in the movie "Mister Robert", that Captain always giving him a hard time. Remember that pet palm tree he had on the deck chained up? "Now hear this, im gonna get that sonofabitch and take him from the rear!" This is the part when tony curtis threw that tree overboard, and the capt want to know who done it.

Uh, Tony Curtis wasn't in Mr. Roberts. It was Henry Fonda.



Sardaukar -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 1:54:28 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Terminus

"This is the Henderson Field Designs answering machine. We've all decided to take the rest of 2009 and the first three quarters of 2010 off. Look for patch 2 sometime in December 2010."


FROM: BASE
TO: HFD
PRIORITY: FLASH

REPEAT YOUR LAST MESSAGE RPT REPEAT YOUR LAST MESSAGE THERE SEEM TO BE SOME TERMINAL INTERFERENCE IN COMMUNICATIONS OVER

[:D]



Terminus -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 2:22:12 PM)

I said,

quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

"This is the Henderson Field Designs answering machine. We've all decided to take the rest of 2009 and the first three quarters of 2010 off. Look for patch 2 sometime in December 2010."




soeren01 -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 2:50:24 PM)

U-126 to Doenitz
"Weidmanns Dank für freie Jagd!
In der Gewitter-Vollmondnacht war bei Lookout die Tankerschlacht!
Der arme Roosevelt verlor---50.000 Tonnen-Mohr!!"
Jochen Mohr
U-126


Doenitz reply:
"Der Mohr hat seine Schuldigkeit getan,der Mohr kann gehen!"


I wasn't able to do a translation that keeps the spirit of this, so in german only.




Terminus -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 2:59:35 PM)

Heh, nice one... And you're right, it would lose pretty much everything if translated into English.



morganbj -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 3:22:02 PM)

Only because you lose the rhymes.



JohnDillworth -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 4:34:53 PM)

Well Halsey was always good for a good quote. I guess his orders of the day went out as radio messages. How about "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!"

or "Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell!”



Terminus -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 4:35:20 PM)

Well, duh...[8|]



LargeSlowTarget -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 8:55:59 PM)

To steer away from another "Japs" debate - how about the signal "Sturgeon no longer virgin".



kaleun -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 11:09:29 PM)

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"Sturgeon no longer virgin".

He found your sig models!



Lecivius -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/13/2009 11:23:22 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Mynok


And let us not forget the greatest of sea admirals who said:

“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.”



Same engagement.

"Engage the enemy more closely"

Signal flags nailed to the mast while lying gun barrel to gun port. That man had style!



Skyros -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/14/2009 2:01:52 AM)

Ensign Charles Parker: "Spotted nothing, sank same"

or smothing like that.

Capt. Binghamton: Commander, how would you and your men like two weeks with nothing to do but play gin rummy, go surfing, have luaus with steel drum bands, dancing girls, hmm?
Lieut. Comdr. Quinton McHale: Two whole weeks? Woo hooo, oh that'd be a wonderful change sir. Yes sir.
Capt. Binghamton: Knock it off McHale. That's what you do every week.



wdolson -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/14/2009 3:13:20 AM)


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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

Well Halsey was always good for a good quote. I guess his orders of the day went out as radio messages. How about "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!"

or "Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell!”


There is also a story from the early days of the war when the Enterprise was at sea running in radio silence and they were listening to Tokyo Rose on the radio. She was taunting about where is the US Navy and their mighty carriers. Halsey bellowed, "Radio our position!"

Bill



vinnie71 -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (11/14/2009 12:40:27 PM)

best 2 American messages in WWII: "Makin Takin" and "NUTS!" (paras at Bastogne - confused Manteuffel who had summoned them to surrender)

Prior to radio age - Edward III when asked for reinforcements for the faltering line commanded by his son - "let him win his spurs"



thegreatwent -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (1/6/2010 7:34:24 AM)

“Retreat Hell! We’re just attacking in another direction.”
-Attributed to Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Korea, December 1950

"I would call this a retrograde advance." - unknown



JeffroK -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (1/6/2010 10:43:03 AM)

From A.B.Cunningham

It takes three years to build a ship; it takes three centuries to build a tradition

And I think from Anthony Eden (maybe apocryphal)

Never before in human conflict, has so many, surrendered so much to so few. (after Beda Fomm Jan 41)

And in WW1

"Put Grant straight at it!

"Harry" Chauvel ordering the Light Horse charge at Beersheba, 1917

Plus many Lord haw Hawisms which seemed to improve Allied morale rather than lower it.

Examples are The Rats of Tobruk & The Scrap Iron Flotilla



Gunner98 -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (1/6/2010 11:19:24 AM)

At the Pass of Thermopylae, circa August 480BC

Xerxes standing in front of his 100,000 Persians: Surrender or we will blot out the sun with our arrows

Leonidas, commanding his 300 Spartans: Then we shall fight in the shade

I hope it’s a true quote – it at least made it to both movies...[;)]

B



John Lansford -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (1/6/2010 11:52:27 AM)


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ORIGINAL: 88l71

"Destroyer gunning, Wahoo running"


The first part of that ran "Engaged in running gun battle", I believe.



LargeSlowTarget -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (1/6/2010 3:46:16 PM)

After the USN carrier raid on Rabaul in November 1943 the Japanese struck back with a strike composed of 18 Kates. They did not find the USN carriers, but attacked a PT, a LCT and a LCI off Bougainville - claiming two carriers, three cruisers and a destroyer sunk.

The three small craft suffered comparatively slight damage - the PT got hit by a torpedo which hit like a bomb without touching the water, the LCI by a torpedo which ran under the shallow-draft vessel and porpoised into the engine room, killing one man. Both torpedoes were duds.

The PT managed to splash two Kates. The congratulatory dispatch from Adm. Wilkinson to the PT skipper for his part in the action ended with "Fireplug sprinkles dog."   



scott64 -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (1/7/2010 5:20:41 AM)

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Mistmatz -> RE: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER (1/7/2010 2:33:24 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar


quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

"This is the Henderson Field Designs answering machine. We've all decided to take the rest of 2009 and the first three quarters of 2010 off. Look for patch 2 sometime in December 2010."


FROM: BASE
TO: HFD
PRIORITY: FLASH

REPEAT YOUR LAST MESSAGE RPT REPEAT YOUR LAST MESSAGE THERE SEEM TO BE SOME TERMINAL INTERFERENCE IN COMMUNICATIONS OVER

[:D]



Shouldn't that read 'TERMINUS INTERFERENCE'? [;)]



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