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Operation Firestone - 4/6/2008 9:54:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		After Nandi falls, the carriers are not needed as acutely at Fiji, so Chet sends them sprinting right across a Jap lake toward Canton. On the first day, they are apparently not spotted. On the second day, there is a welcoming committee from Baker and the three carrier TF's straggle a bit so there is no uber CAP. 21 Wildcats go up against an equal number of zeroes. The CAP is effective and the AAA pretty hot but one Betty finds his mark. A second raid later also scores a hit.

Saratoga remains in the battle...the four carriers join off Canton the next day. On the 20th, 60 Zeroes and many bombers, again from Canton go in against the landing forces but are severely mauled and
achieve nothing.

On the 19th, KAGA is spotted off Flores by the little people. Looks like Chet will have another week without the KB in his hair.






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Baker ain't much - 4/6/2008 9:58:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		I suppose you could base heavy bombers on Baker Is. but I'm not sure where you would put the level 3 port and the service area for 150-200 planes. Dont forget to bring a desalinator and something to eat.

Modern view of Baker. I think you can see a runway outline.




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Rendezvous - 4/11/2008 5:45:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		*******Somewhere in the North Pacific, December 27, 1942*********

A large ship with a curious flight deck slices Eastward at flank speed. A funnel disgorges smoke downward on her starboard.

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RE: Rendezvous - 4/11/2008 6:55:14 PM   
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Big map on wall - 4/11/2008 7:36:55 PM   
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Adm. Nimitz: Husband, have your staff run a time-distance analysis. Start with all 4 Jap fleet carriers at last known position of Kaga off Flores, afternoon of the 19th. I want to know a worst case scenario of when they could first be in position to threaten our forces off Canton. Assume they proceed at flank speed and assume they move in unison, which is their habit. They were not seen in the Banda Sea by the Coronados or Forts at Darwin, so plot their movement to the North around Sulawese. They would want to remain undectected. They will outstrip their oilers and they would be unlikely to have sufficient fleet oilers available en route, so assume at least two refuelings in port..perhaps....<walks to map>..Davao and..Palau. I think that would require the better part of a day in each. Put them west of Canton, out of our search range from Palmyra, probably 300-350 miles to use their range advantage. When can they be there...that is the question.

Adm. Kimmel: I'll have them get right on it.

Adm. Nimitz: Splendid! I see fireworks on the horizon.

Adm. Kimmel: <moves excitedly to the window> Where sir? I do so love fireworks.

Adm. Nimitz: <rubs temples with fingertips> Husband, Husband. It's just an expression. It's midday for Christ's sake. Say, I don't suppose you have a nickname or something? No offense, but that is just a stupid first name. I hate stupid names.

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RE: Big map on wall - 4/11/2008 10:49:38 PM   
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RE: Big map on wall - 4/12/2008 2:37:21 AM   
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RE: Big map on wall - 4/12/2008 3:24:13 AM   
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RE: Big map on wall - 4/12/2008 4:17:44 AM   
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RE: Big map on wall - 4/12/2008 4:31:07 AM   
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RE: Big map on wall - 4/12/2008 4:38:43 AM   
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Praise the Lord...... - 4/12/2008 6:51:08 PM   
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RE: Praise the Lord...... - 4/12/2008 6:53:20 PM   
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LGTB - 4/12/2008 7:04:57 PM   
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As the designated LGTB representative to the Board, I feel compelled to respond to the childish and offensive buffoonery on display here. First, that IS NOT how you spell "gay". Secondly, I object to the denigration of Admiral Adams. If she/he chose to serve in the Navy that is her/his choice and should not by criticized by the small minded. He was evidently an Admiral trapped in a cabaret singer's body. That is just the way he was made. I don't see anything funny about it. As for Neslon Eddy, I honestly did not know that, but I don't see that as anything to snicker about. I intend to make a motion at the next Board meeting to have this offensive, adolescent rant permanently clo...<POOF>

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RE: LGTB - 4/12/2008 10:02:46 PM   
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Whitehall - 4/14/2008 8:08:30 PM   
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RE: Whitehall - 4/14/2008 8:11:45 PM   
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RE: LGTB - 4/15/2008 5:56:15 AM   
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Editor's Note (Designated LGTB boardmember):

As the designated LGTB representative to the Board, I feel compelled to respond to the childish and offensive buffoonery on display here. First, that IS NOT how you spell "gay". Secondly, I object to the denigration of Admiral Adams. If she/he chose to serve in the Navy that is her/his choice and should not by criticized by the small minded. He was evidently an Admiral trapped in a cabaret singer's body. That is just the way he was made. I don't see anything funny about it. As for Neslon Eddy, I honestly did not know that, but I don't see that as anything to snicker about. I intend to make a motion at the next Board meeting to have this offensive, adolescent rant permanently clo...<POOF>


I think it is LGBT.. the acronyms keep getting switched around

BTW, excellent writing sir. I'm in the process of catching up.

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RE: LGTB - 4/15/2008 8:13:26 PM   
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I think it is LGBT.. the acronyms keep getting switched around

BTW, excellent writing sir. I'm in the process of catching up.


Ahh. Thanks for that. When it comes to that acronym, I have a hard time remembering what goes in front and what goes in back

Thanks also for the feedback. It helped my spirits after I was prison-raped by the tragically misnamed "Alternative Minimum Tax" and had to cough up antother $6,000 to the Feds

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Cool Map - 4/15/2008 8:22:26 PM   
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Northern Burma is in the balance and the stakes are high. The Allies have pummeled Rangoon airfield and have achieved air superiority. Indian IVth Corps was cut off for a week when the Jap 39th beseiged Myitkyina. This has been remedied but the combat power opposing the Indian IVth is substantail. The Japs caught on the jungle trail opposing 7th Armoured are trying to pull back, but they are being pounded by 10th Air Force and by the Wellys of the RAF. If III Armoured Corps can push them back, then the Japs West of Myitkyina will be cut off.







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RE: Cool Map - 4/15/2008 9:40:39 PM   
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RE: Cool Map - 4/16/2008 10:57:49 AM   
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EIR - 4/16/2008 9:43:19 PM   
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Gen. Pownall: Have we heard from Warren. When will he commit his tanks to the attack? There are 90,000 Japs West of Myitkyinia I hope to encircle.

Aide: He is ready sir, save the EIR.

Gen. Pownall: <frowns slightly and thinks to himself> "EIR....hmmm....Electronic Intelligence...?" <finally, he can stand it no longer> Look, damnit! Haven't I asked that we dispense with the acronyms? What is with you people and the acronyms? Please tell me what 'EIR' stands for.

Aide: Yes, sorry sir. It stands for 'Environmental Impact Report'.

Gen. Pownall: What on Earth is that?

Aide: It's the fossil beds sir. Apparently the battle area is riddled with a superb collection of hadrosaur bones. Nests, fossilized eggs, the whole lot. The SPCA have filed suit...Oh, sorry sir. That is the Society for..

Gen. Pownall: the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals..yes, yes. Do you take me for a doddering fool?

Aide: Oh no sir. I have never seen you dodder.

Gen. Pownall: Ah, pay no attention. I've been irritable. It's this damn humidity. I really have a terrible problem with chafing. <adjusts his package>

Aide: Yes sir, chafing sir.

Gen. Pownall: It is curious. <turns to look out a window toward the mountains which are covered in white>

Aide: Oh no sir, I've had some serious chafing myself. Many of the men have an odd gait.

Gen. Pownall: Oh? Oh, no not that. I meant the SPCA. I wouldn't have thought dinosaur bones would have been within their scope of interest.

Aide: They've become quite aggressive. All US Army Air Force ASW..err...I mean Anti-submarine patrols now have an SPCA ride-a-long...and they have been harrassing the PM. I understand he has taken to staying in his underground bunker in London day and night....and they haven't proper lavatory facilities..so he must use a chamberpot.

Gen. Pownall: Chamberpot?! Bloody Hell! The poor bastard.

Aide: Indeed! In any event, the order has come directly from Whitehall. No attack until the report is complete.

Gen. Pownall: <turns pensively again toward the window> War is Hell.

Aide: Indeed! That's Sherman isn't it?

Gen. Pownall: Yes, yes I believe it is. <adjusts himself again>

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RE: EIR - 4/16/2008 10:03:44 PM   
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Gen. Sherman: <gallops up to hilltop and pulls his horse up abruptly. He appears angry> General, why have you not attacked as I ordered?

Gen. Schofield, Army of the Ohio: <salutes> Sir, it's the Utoy Creek Snail Darter. It's endangered sir. The Georgia Legislature has filed an injunction.

Gen. Sherman: DAMN THE UTOY CREEK SNAIL DARTER! WAR IS HELL! You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. AND THAT APPLIES TO THE DAMNABLE UTOY CREEK SNAIL DARTER AS WELL! <as an aside to his aide> Somebody write that down. It sounded really cool.

ATTACK, GENERAL ATTACK! I will see you next in Atlanta. <turns and gallops off>

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RE: EIR - 4/16/2008 10:52:56 PM   
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RE: EIR - 4/16/2008 11:25:59 PM   
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Indeed! The level of "deforestation" is accelerating. What can be done?! If a teen comes into my office for a sports physical and still has a virgin stand of forest, it is usually because they are trying out for the marching band....everyone else rarely has more than a few days of stubble.

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RE: EIR - 4/17/2008 12:01:30 AM   
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and that ladies and gentlmen was just a new low for me.

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RE: Big map on wall - 4/17/2008 6:32:07 AM   
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Mandrake, the AMT clobbered you too? My sympathies...

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Galloping - 4/17/2008 8:12:36 PM   
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The ***** vignette ***** General Sherman has confused a number ** readers. Several have written expressing strong views ****, as the General was a biped, he could not reasonably have galloped. It is the view ** the Board **** the author, not uncharacteristically we might add, simply omitted the phrase "** horseback". The use ** horses by officers ** rank ** improve mobility was a common practice ** the time.

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RE: Galloping - 4/18/2008 1:52:51 AM   
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Editor's Note: *****prepositions omitted to prserve the identity of the writer****

The ***** vignette ***** General Sherman has confused a number ** readers. Several have written expressing strong views ****, as the General was a biped, he could not reasonably have galloped. It is the view ** the Board **** the author, not uncharacteristically we might add, simply omitted the phrase "** horseback". The use ** horses by officers ** rank ** improve mobility was a common practice ** the time.


Those prepositions can be quite the fingerprint.

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