At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Palembang: 65th Brigade landing at Palembang. Not much we can do about it.

Ground combat at Palembang (48,91)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1844 troops, 14 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 61

Defending force 7161 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 185

Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
Djambi Cdo
Palembang Cdo
Lahat Cdo
3rd Cavalry Regiment
224 Group RAF
PBg-Ld AA Afd
Palembang ML Base Force
SSVF Brigade

Defending units:
65th Brigade

Do they have work visas?

Hey! Good idea! Ask for volunteers to go ask. Hurry up before they little yellow bastards ask for asylum, then we'll have to get them public housing and some kind of meal card.

[Cap Mandrake]

************Outer defences of Palembang, January 15*************


Lt. Uppington-Smyth: <with megaphone> Attention! Japanese commander! I'm afraid the civil authorities have not been properly informed of your intentions. Have you your required work visas? Just because there is a war on is no reason to suspend the rule of law.


<a bullet promptly pierces the megaphone followed by derisive raughter from Japan-mens. The Lt ducks down behind cover>

Well! That's the way it shall be is it? I'm afraid I'm going to have to give a quite negative report to the provincial governor.


Japan-mens: Oh, prease not-ah negative report. Hahahahah

[Cap Mandrake]

So a dad comes in with his 6 year old son and he writes down the complaint in a kind of patois Spanish. The verb conjugations are all wrong. No reflexive pronouns. Spelling errors. His spoken Spanish is no better. His Engrish even worse. I would call a translator but I'm not sure I could even put a name to the dialect.

I finally work out that he needs the forms signed to go to kindergarten. I fill them out and go to print out his vaccine record but there is none which means he got them somewhere else. We search the record. Nothing. I ask him in Spanish:


"Do you know where the vaccines were given?"

"Mexico"

At this point I am getting a bit annoyed at his helplessness, so I ask: "Normally the parents keep a card with that information?"

I think he can tell I am getting a bit annoyed so he switches to patois Engrish: "My wife, she dead"

"Ohhh." [:(] Christ! That is a damn good excuse! I feel like a jerk for getting impatient with him. Clearly, there is no hope for getting the records. "Right. We have to start over then"


Dad is very happy. 6 year old much, much less happy

[Cap Mandrake]

After this I'll stop auto-spamming but I have good news!


I found the frozen shrimp I bought last week! The bad news is they were in the trunk of my Bavarian motor car. It was BAAAAD. I spent 10 minutes looking under the seats for a moldy hot dog or something and checked under the hood for a dead rat or snake or the neighbors cat. Then I gave up and went into Albertson's for some groceries. When I opened the trunk it was like Jeffery Daumer's house.

I'm just glad I didn't get pulled over by the Highway Patrol. [:)]

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

After this I'll stop auto-spamming but I have good news!


I found the frozen shrimp I bought last week! The bad news is they were in the trunk of my Bavarian motor car. It was BAAAAD. I spent 10 minutes looking under the seats for a moldy hot dog or something and checked under the hood for a dead rat or snake or the neighbors cat. Then I gave up and went into Albertson's for some groceries. When I opened the trunk it was like Jeffery Daumer's house.

I'm just glad I didn't get pulled over by the Highway Patrol. [:)]

How do you know what Jeffry Daumer's house smelled like?? [8|]

[Chickenboy]

Canabarism and rotten seafood? Chickenboy-san reminded of the preasures of home cooking. "Rabaur styre bahbacue" we carr it.

[Cap Mandrake]

******************January 16, 1942(e)***************

Oz: Maybe the end for poor Balch. I found out why she abandoned her differently abled friend (USS San Francisco). San Francisco foundered trying to make safety. I should have left her in Brisbane. I blame the staff.

ubmarine attack near Sydney at 91,168

Japanese Ships
SS RO-33

Allied Ships
DD Balch, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

[Cap Mandrake]

Attriting the Ronsons on the road south of Rockhampton.

Morning Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 94,154 , near Rockhampton

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3

Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 3
B-26 Marauder x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 2 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)

LRCAP is flying in from McKay, I suspect. B-17's moved up to Brisbane refuse to attack McKay..annoyingly.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Rockhampton at 95,152

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 9

Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 3 destroyed

Always better to be the second group in. The range limitations of Allied fighters at this stage is a serious weakness.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Rockhampton at 97,152

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 3 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 8

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Venice Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires

[Cap Mandrake]

Jap paratroops captured Cloncurry out in the outback yesterday. I am worried they will use the base for paradrops on
the Alice-Darwin trail so we bring in some long-legged LB-30's to Darwin.

Morning Air attack on Cloncurry , at 84,142

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 4

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 10

[Cap Mandrake]

Lord Howe: No airfield yet but we sent some B-26's to bomb the "port" at Lord Howe to slow down field construction. I think we ran into carrier based zeroes. Bad luck on our part or clairvoyance on the part of the LYB's.

Morning Air attack on Lord Howe Island , at 100,169

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 10

Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 7000 feet *
Port Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb

[Cap Mandrake]

Darwin: Huzzah! Mini-KB left! Darwin is saved! Oh..never mind.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 7
A6M2 Zero x 8
B5N1 Kate x 10

Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
A5M4 Claude: 1 destroyed
B5N1 Kate: 1 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
xAK Mathew Luckenbach
xAK Lena Luckenbach
xAK Lancaster, Bomb hits 2, on fire

[Cap Mandrake]

Palembang: First no work visas and then this! I bet they don't even have the proper catalytic converters on their Ronsons. Just bloody
uncivilized if you ask me. That's why we call them little yellow baaahstards in lighter moments.

round combat at Palembang (48,91)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 7193 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 188

Defending force 2435 troops, 24 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 49

Japanese adjusted assault: 175

Allied adjusted defense: 16

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Palembang !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)

Japanese ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
410 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 39 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 23 (23 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 16 (16 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 8

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
65th Brigade

Defending units:
Lahat Cdo
Palembang Cdo
Djambi Cdo
3rd Cavalry Regiment
PBg-Ld AA Afd
224 Group RAF
Palembang ML Base Force
SSVF Brigade

[sprior]

That's the Londoan Marathon finished and I'm knackered. Not watching that again.

[sprior]

She's gone and done it, the DU has moved in with the toerag. She was actually quite fun to have around.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

She's gone and done it, the DU has moved in with the toerag. She was actually quite fun to have around.

Bittersweet thing, isn't it.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

That's the Londoan Marathon finished and I'm knackered. Not watching that again.

[:D]

Which guy from Kenya won?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

She's gone and done it, the DU has moved in with the toerag. She was actually quite fun to have around.

Sorry, mate. That must be very conflicting for you and the Memsahib. [:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

"knackered" [:D] Ah, the mother tongue has no shortage of funny specialty words.

After a tough series..."New York Knickerbockers Nearly Knackered"

After a honeymoon for Keira..."Knightly Knocked-up Nightly, Kanckered"

Or, after a sustained air battle..."Noumea Night-fighters Newly Knackered"

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

She's gone and done it, the DU has moved in with the toerag. She was actually quite fun to have around.

Sorry, mate. That must be very conflicting for you and the Memsahib. [:(]

Thanks guys but she's nearly 22 so time to grow up and make her own life. At least the toerag has his head screwed on right, studying maths at uni, he's got a placement year with a UK high street bank as a risk analyst.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior
At least the toerag has his head screwed on right

Well, this is breaking news! That must be easier to swallow then. Marginally.