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RE: Before teleprompters - 1/10/2012 4:56:34 PM   
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Thank you sir. Now, if I get hit by an asteroid on the way to work I can great St Peter with all accounts in good order....oh wait...<goes to check JPL site for any near Earth asterodis>


There are always some, and they only ever see the biggish ones.

Anything that hits the ground is packing enough energy to kill a single person, and with our current priorities finding everything big enough to survive re-entry is like tracking ants with radar... while the ants are running around under a herd of elephants.

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RE: Before teleprompters - 1/10/2012 5:58:34 PM   
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Speaking of dogs


I must confess, that's an easier way to segue into a conversation than, "Speaking of telogen effluvium...", which is what I was thinking.

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RE: Before teleprompters - 1/10/2012 5:59:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		@ Cap'n: Thanks for the update on the Gilberts. Do you have one on the Sullivans? Whereabouts of the HMS Pinafore?

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RE: Before teleprompters - 1/10/2012 6:12:37 PM   
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Speaking of telogen effluvium


Actually .. I am thinking these guys are pulling their hair out rather than the acute non-scaring alopicia

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RE: Before teleprompters - 1/10/2012 6:14:16 PM   
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***************Nov. 15, 1942(c) {after we actually saw the turn}***********

Oz: The sissy LYB's sent all their toys (except the carriers) back to Broome of all places. I think they were clearing the decks for our arrival...but we trick them...we no show up. They feel safe in their bastion of Broome, but they are unaware of our Albacore(LR) with 840 nm range.

Attacks at Terape and Port Moresby have heated up in order to make shipping safe in the Torres Strait and to suggest an incipient landing.

SouPac: Attack at Tanna ordered for today.




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With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 6:32:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		******Nauru Is.(Near the Gilberts [the island chain not the young couple in Alamogordo], Nov. 15, 1942(c)*****


Lt. Col. Waters: <He is in defilade behind a big mound of gaunao, holding a 20 ft. long piece of mint-flavored, unwaxed dental floss with a loop at the far end. He stops breathing...wait...wait....wait...he jerks the line suddenly and then jumps to his feet in victory. Twenty feet away a blue-footed booby struggles vainly to escape> I GOT ONE LADS! I GOT ONE! <he turns around to share the news but sees not a soul> Lads?

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 6:33:31 PM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 7:47:14 PM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 8:01:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tragic. Look at the breast meat on that bird.

Should he be rescued, a task to which SouPac now solemnly commits itself, Gen. Blamey will tear Col. Waters a new one, then the SPCA is just going to make him beg for mercy.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 8:46:34 PM   
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Tragic. Look at the breast meat on that bird.

Should she be rescued, a task to which SouPac now solemnly commits itself, Gen. Blamey will tear Col. Waters a new one, then the SPCA is just going to make him beg for mercy.


Fixed your post for you.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 9:00:16 PM   
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The big red blob is a Guards Division that seems to have got stuck in the jungle.





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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 9:01:54 PM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 9:05:39 PM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 9:06:32 PM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 9:07:38 PM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/10/2012 11:24:31 PM   
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Wrens at Candy House, get your own,








Well, if the steam catapult (if there even is such a thing) on Hermes breaks down the second one from the left front row can be put to good use.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 2:53:17 AM   
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Archaeologists find the final photograph the last surviving member of Wren Detachment took:






You owe me a freakin keyboard!!

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 3:43:08 AM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 9:30:15 AM   
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It's about to be lashed by 100 kph winds and driving rain.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 9:30:45 AM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 10:33:44 AM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 12:17:36 PM   
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And back in the real world, Port Hedland has received a cyclone warning.

It's about to be lashed by 100 kph winds and driving rain.


To the matelots it's just another summer's day at Scapa Flow.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 12:42:20 PM   
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(And submarines are breeding grounds of TB and madness.)

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 4:01:26 PM   
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Oz: JJ really, really wanted to get more troops ashore so they came back with carrier top cover.

At night, the Dutch boat SS 020 torpedoes the ZUIHO!!!!....oh.....Maru.

By design, although it was the first time in 30 game turns, a fighter sweep from Meekathara came in first over PH. 14 RAAF Beaufighters met 16 carrier Zeroes losing 2 frames to one Zero.

First bomber raid to go in were RCAF Bolingbroke and RAAF Mitchell II and Hudsons. One Bolingbroke was lost to the Zeroes but they did moderate damage to ground troops. Then some Beaufighter stragglers traded 1 for 1 with the Zeroes.

Next, several raids by B-24's, B-26's and B-25's doing major damage to the ground troops.

LB-30's went after Yamato and Hyuga near Broome but got no hits.

Next VII Bomber command planes from Carnovan go after the carriers, somewhat ineptly:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Hedland at 57,123

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 37



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 3
P-38F Lightning x 9
P-38G Lightning x 14


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged
P-38F Lightning: 2 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CVL Zuiho

Oops Albacore from Exmouth attack without the F4F's and are slaughtered despite their 400 km/hr diving speed.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Hedland at 57,129

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 23 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13



Allied aircraft
Albacore I x 5


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Albacore I: 3 destroyed

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 4:05:31 PM   
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USN replacement squadron from Exmouth, again without the F4F's (Yay team!):

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Hedland at 57,129

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11



Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 1
SBD-3 Dauntless x 23


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed
SBD-3 Dauntless: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAP Teiritsu Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAP Teiko Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Teifu Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAP Teibi Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAP Teison Maru, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk

Japanese ground losses:
368 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 31 destroyed, 52 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 32 (22 destroyed, 10 disabled)

Had this raid been directed at the carriers it might have achieved something. Still they did hit the transports.:


Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Hedland at 57,129

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 10



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 30
B-26 Marauder x 4
P-38F Lightning x 2
P-38G Lightning x 7


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 10 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged
P-38F Lightning: 1 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
xAP Teiritsu Maru, heavy fires
xAP Teibi Maru, heavy fires
SC Ch 2
xAP Teia Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAP Teifu Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
SC Ch 1

Japanese ground losses:
147 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Don't know yet if they got anyone ashore, but I doubt they will be much use.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 4:38:37 PM   
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Wrens at Candy House, get your own,







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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 6:36:17 PM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 7:18:10 PM   
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So, which one do you think is Miss Fay Dingway?


Not the 4th one from left back row, I trust.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/11/2012 7:43:01 PM   
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 1/12/2012 3:50:30 AM   
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I tried to join the Wrens but failed the medical.







And we are really glad you failed.......

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