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PaxMondo -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/15/2016 2:54:50 PM)
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obvert -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/15/2016 4:38:24 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: 1275psi Rats literally Rats have chewed through my internet connection we will resume when it is restored, and they are dead, dead, dead. Yikes! Good Luck.

pws1225 -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/15/2016 4:48:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: 1275psi Rats literally Rats have chewed through my internet connection we will resume when it is restored, and they are dead, dead, dead. Ouch! That gives new meaning to the term 'rat bastards'!

Ol_Dog -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/15/2016 4:50:25 PM)
When we did rat hunts, we used gasoline or carbide - neither one good in or under a house though.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/16/2016 8:11:19 AM)
MAY 31 From POTUS to Prime Minister Australia CICPAC SOUTHWEST PAC Australia Command Immediate Effective immediately MGEN Thompson to immediately take command South West Pacific End

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/16/2016 8:22:23 AM)
Mid Indian ocean John bends to the sounding tube "Revolutions 230, port ten......all hands on the upper deck, face to Starboard, BB Resolution" Napier, her tanks again brimming, bounces away from the rusting flank of the battleship. Useless at most things, as a floating refuelling station, superb. It begins to rain again, hard, cold. The men curse, and shake their jackets out. John does not curse the rain, nor the still quite violent seas. It has rained everyday these last three, and the weather is reported further south by the pickets as even fouler. They remain unsighted. He moves to the port bridge wing, judging carefully the distance to the Large transport Napier is going to flank. Raises his glasses, examines her empty decks. He does not expect to see his older brother on those decks, not at this range, not in this weather. Idly he wonders if Jason is seasick, but he doubts it. Not Jason. She's a big transport, fat, potentially fast. But no assault ship if you think about it.. Still, Jason would find a way. The oldest son of the family always has.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/16/2016 8:32:46 AM)
3am Kirribilli house. Gently Frank places the phone down. 2 regiments .........gone. And the 25th was at a friendly port, for gods sake. His mind swings, naturally, to another convoy. Just how vulnerable was Jason's ship, were all the ships that they depended upon? Can the carriers do it? And, what of the Japanese carriers, of this , what did they call it, Kido Baru?, what of them? 3 am. He slips out of his bed, slides to his desk. Sleep.....how can he, now?, will he ever again sleep a full night through?

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/16/2016 8:40:34 AM)
Nimitz stares at his map. He too thinks about those Japanese carriers. Can he trust that sighting west of Kodiak? 2 fleet, 1 light?.. Or something less dangerous? I would give anything right now to just know..........

BBfanboy -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/16/2016 7:12:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Ol_Dog When we did rat hunts, we used gasoline or carbide - neither one good in or under a house though. [:D] When I was serving with the UNEF2 force in Egypt, one of the African battalions in the buffer zone had the habit of dumping their food scraps beside their building. They soon had a rat problem, and chose the gasoline method to get rid of them. They just didn't think of that part about not pouring the gasoline in the holes under the building ..... I'm pretty sure none of them had ever seen a jerry can of gasoline poured out and ignited before, but still ....[8\|]

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/17/2016 12:20:43 AM)
June 1 Zeros sweep port Moresby, and the skies fill with machine gun chatter as 16 P40Es take them on Both sides score, both sides lose. Nimitz gets an answer. Car div 5 IS in the Aleutians. Kodiak launches 15 wildcats, 7 P40e, escorting 4 dive bombers and 18 Avengers at a large convoy operating to Kodiaks south. 35 zeros intercept it, and score heavily, killing 13 wildcats for only 2 in return. 2 large APs are however, sunk. A second raid, 16 dive bombers arrive un escorted, the Japanese fighters take down over half of them. It is a bad day for NORPAC, yet to actually have the carriers position fixed....... Fletcher in the Indian ocean is counting carefully. And the count a hardens. A coast watcher at Tulgia sends word of another carrier sighting, not one, but two Hiyo class........

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/17/2016 9:44:18 AM)
June 2nd The signals flow into Enterprise, are deciphered, and carried to Fletcher. They say many things. Some are true, immutable. Some......some, well with some you have to take with a grain off salt. The trick, of course, is to sort which one was which. First the Aleutians. Good news here, up to 9 Jap transports sunk trying to get something through....and further sightings of Car Div 5 retiring West. Another one sunk at Coxs bizaar. But then....... CV Kaga reported at Tulgia. And CV Hiryu at Merauke. And 44 ships in Rabual. Fletcher glances about him, about at the great armada ploughing south about him. I want to believe Port Moresby is the target.....I so want to believe. "Jackson!" "Tell me again that nobody has sighted a bloody thing" "Nobody has sighted a bloody thing Admiral" It has to be Port Moresby, it has to be.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/17/2016 9:53:27 AM)
2nd June "Open fire when ready guns" "Always ready sir" Warspites Captain grins. If any old girl is going to be ready for action, its this one. The bells ring, and the great rifles commence their work. A thousand yards astern, Battleship Idaho also erupts. Efate is hammered. The battlewagons do not hang around. The Japanese search down here in the south Pac has, it seems, still a great many holes. Alright, lets exploit them.

Major Shane -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/17/2016 2:00:28 PM)
What happened to Halsey? I thought Jackson was an aide to Halsey not Fletcher? Maybe I missed a change of command or am altogether mistaken

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/17/2016 11:51:37 PM)
He got shingles, just one line somewhere back in the past..........

Major Shane -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/17/2016 11:53:47 PM)
Damn, break out the calamine lotion[:)]

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/18/2016 8:40:07 AM)
June 3rd The Japanese try to push the remains of a convoy into Chittagong. Staff Officer Graham places nearly 100 P 40e's over the base, adds in a nice mix off Banshee dive bombers, and sinks the rest. A bonus over Lashio, where 10 betties are shot down as well. This, is, of course, all well and good. The Japanese fighter/bomber strength here in Burma is thin. It has to be. Its bloody thick in other places.........

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/18/2016 8:56:03 AM)
3rd June 120 miles east of Kalgoorlie The heel on Jacks boot is becoming loose. The right boot to be precise.. He's not surprised, the bloody things made for flying in, not trekking 45 miles across the stones and sands of the Simpson desert. He regrets now the squeamishness he felt at the trucks demise, when, yesterday?, the day before? when ever the hell the bomber got it. The driver, ( poor barsted) he had size nines....proper army issue size nines at that. He should have taken them, separated as they were from the rest of his body......... But that was 45 miles back. 45 miles, and god knows how many bombing attacks back. At least they now had those 45 miles between them and the Japs.....the Matildas could, in the quiet of the night, still occasionally be heard to the west sniping at the Japs. Rumours had it though, that some were again ahead of them....... Jack stumbles in the dark. Its not a rock this time. He emerges from the stupor of fatigue, and examines his feet. Not a rock. A rail. A steel bloody rail. The rail line! For the first time in hours Jack stops blindly following the column of men he is part of, and looks around. Gun pits to the left And the right. Trenches........ The aussie Army has re combined, and astride the railroad, will make a stand.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/18/2016 8:57:32 AM)
From CICPAC to Enterprise Additional report. CVL Zuiho reported at Mearuake

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/19/2016 9:36:40 AM)
4th June John admires the newest vessel joining this task force He turns to Captain Smith "Now that's a nice looking ship" She dwarfs Napier. And Repulse does look immaculate, direct from the yards that she is. She looks immaculate, yes. Her reputation, her performance in the battle off Singapore, is far, far from it. John is pleased to have her alongside them. This time, he knows, she will fight.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/20/2016 7:06:00 AM)
June 5th Nagato, Mutsu, Ise, Hyuga revisit Port Moresby. Their bombardment sinks a small AK, cluttering the harbour still further with future dive wrecks Mostly, how ever, the bombardment achieves little. It does reveal one interesting tid bit, 4 battleships escorted by a single DD, a APD and 3 DMS only. Are the Japanese already short of escorts? Jefferies transport reaches the halfway point to Australia. A long way from anywhere, hopefully a long way from non friendlies. John on Napier also reaches the halfway point. The day is spent refuelling from a cargo ship, "an interesting exercise" Jack does what he has done seemingly forever, ducking Japanese bombs. Jason spends his day sharpening steel.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/21/2016 7:43:57 AM)
June 6th The Jap battlewagons remain at Port Moresby. Radio intell again mentions Kodiac as a target. BB Fuso is struck by 4 1000 lb bombs south of there. She keeps coming.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/21/2016 7:59:53 AM)
The war Cabinet. Tony stares at the latest reports from Blamey. Give the man credit, he is one relentlessly optimistic barsted. ........and I have managed to regather most of the army astride the rail line. The Nip is massing three divisions. He is again trying to outflank us. I think he has no answer now for our armour. He continues to come east just nicely........ Tony places the paper down. "I hear the Japs have at least 2 divisions loading at Rabual, are you convinced Prime Minister Port Moresby is the target?, and if it is, can we hold?" There are murmurs around the table. Many, a great many here want these men home, want the place abandoned. Some one asks the question. "Is there any point in losing even more men for that place?" The Prime Minister raises his hand, asking for silence. "Gentlemen, the facts are simple. Its high stakes poker now, we cannot stop now, nor can Japan. Port Moresby grows tougher every day. And we need, need him fixed on it" Everyone about the table knows this. Carnovan is a long way from Rabual, a good long way. "There is this as well.....those two divisions, they may not be aimed at Port Moresby at all......"' A chill passes through Tony. High stakes poker. With an entire nations future at stake.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/21/2016 8:12:40 AM)
June 7th From Former naval Officer to POTUS ..........and we now consider India secure. I must acknowledge that this is very much a result of your deployment of so many aircraft of 10th Air force to India. Everything now, it appears, depends on our West Australian attack. Our two Navies are working in perfect harmony. We will fight the enemy shoulder to shoulder......... From POTUS to Former Naval Officer ............Hornet is safe in Sydney harbour now, but will remain out of action for quite some time. Wasp, and a new Modern Battleship has entered the Pacific. We gave the Japs a nice blood nose near Kodiac today. We need to discuss this Efate operation. I understand the need to keep the enemy fixed in the South West Pacific, but this gives me the shivers. Can we please discuss this further..........

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/21/2016 8:19:23 AM)
June 8th The war has a quiet day But in the Indian ocean, a significant event. The Carnovan invasion fleet completes its concentration. Ships are shuffled, re assigned. Then ponderously, it turns east. 1200 miles to run. Totally undetected, the british also enter the map, they are deep, deep south of Albany. This division moves east. Coming west from Adelaide, the American 24th comes West. Target, Esperance All or nothing The poker chips are now, "all in"

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/23/2016 12:04:22 PM)
June 9th 24 bullets Jack raises his rifle, fires at the moving shadow 100 metres away, ducks as the mortar shell thumps into the ground 20 metres behind the trench . 23 left. Flares rise over the trenches, the shadows congeal into men, rifles spitting, flashes and sparkles in the dark 22, 21. One of the shadows falls. Cries , screams, yells, curses.....Jesus, the little yellow barsteds do actually yell Banzia........ 20, 19. The ground kicks up in front, he ducks, sucks in the big ones, rises, fires again. The shadows get closer. Vague feelings of the battle all along the front......no time for that, just on the barsteds swarming forward towards them. 18, 17, 16, got another one, missed that one....... Artillery shells scream overhead, the dark wavers, splits, returns even darker. 15, 14......will nothing stop them? The shadows now are men...men jittering, wavering in front. And then, from behind, the rattle of the tracks, the chatter of machine guns, the thump of cannons The maltildas grind past, rumble towards the infantry........and the infantry melts away 12 left. 12. 12 rounds will be enough. 3 divisions attack the combined strength of the aussie army one division, the 21st, is left with AV of 95 1 to 2 the attack failed and I honestly don't think he has the strength to beat Blameys concentrated corp.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/24/2016 11:18:18 AM)
June 10 Margaret is at the sink, peeling potatoes. The bump is now showing. For a moment a wave of anxiety sweeps through her. Time is going so fast, the unwanted future is soon going to be the present. For a moment, the missing Father passes through her mind......where was he now? And what of the circumstances that bought her here? The Prime Minister (or was it his wife?, as she now strongly suspected} had hidden her here, what happens after the baby is born? Too much to ponder........ The door to the kitchen bangs open. Matron enters, the weekly shopping in her hands. She is pale, and Margaret knows immediately that something has recently brought tears. "What's wrong Matron?" "Those Americans, you know, the ones on the train.......Oh Margaret, all those fine young men. They are saying in town that all of them drowned at Port Moresby.........

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/24/2016 11:24:03 AM)
June 10th Admiralty house. "Not sighted?" "Not a skerrick.....40 miles south of Albany, and not a single search plane" "Encouraging" "Rather" 3 aks, and a destroyer trail a coat south of Albany, Esperance. And remain unspotted. The Carnovan invasion fleet continues East. It remains unsighted as well. Encouraging indeed.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/24/2016 11:32:24 AM)
June 11 From Prime Minister to General Blamey You have defeated a second Japanese attack, and inflicted further heavy losses upon him. You have shown that Australia's fighting men remain, and will always remain, indomitable. I know that things remain desperate, yet again I, and my government remain completely confident in you, your men, and the plan now underway. Hang on. Our long awaited reinforcement comes near. Frank Ford

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/24/2016 11:38:16 AM)
June 11th Blamey stares through the glasses at the desert and scrub West of the trench A steady wind blows in his face, cool, sweet after the heat of last nights battle. It won't be so sweet soon, after a few days of the sun. "How many major?" "I hear over 2000 bodies from this latest little effort" No, not so sweet at all.

1275psi -> RE: Letters from a Prime Minister (5/25/2016 11:36:00 AM)
12 June India air HQ under Grahams guidance swings its attention to Magwe. He uses Dutch martins. They are old, yes, but if there is no opposition, even they will do. The oil fields receive some damage. A start. A good start. B17s visit Rabual, and encounter CV fighters. Carrier Vals are sighted over Port Moresby. The Carnovan invasion has 720 miles to run The Japanese do not attack east of Kalgoorlie this day.............

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