tombom posted:

There's just a general "Support" ground type for medical and logistical style tasks - keeping morale up, keeping fatigue and disruption down, etc.

Ygolonac posted:

(Late-war Japanese antiarmour could be pretty effective, at times - bury a 500-found bomb in the road, dig a hole for one soldier with a hammer to hit the detonator when a tank comes by. )

Eric Hammel posted:

A Japanese shoved a length of steel pipe into the tank's wheel assembly, and the vehicle stopped. Then, though a Marine rifle company was forming on the nearby beach, several dozen Japanese broke from cover and attempted to set the tank ablaze with oily rags. Several nearby Marine riflemen fought off the crazed assailants, who by then had pried open the hatches, dragged the screaming crewmen from their places and battered their heads against the steel hull of the tank. Three of the tankers were killed and one was critically injured before forty two dead Japanese were piled up around the disabled armored vehicle.

Ilanin posted:

Well, kind of. I may have made my opinion about the R-class battleships fairly clear earlier in the thread:


Though a single QE probably wouldn't have done any better here, though her 25 knot top speed would have let her make the most of the 15" gun's range advantage for a bit longer.

Grey Hunter posted:

Could you repost any questions you have, as I'm dam sure I've missed them in my read through of the thread. I only spotted this one for answering.

Grey Hunter posted:

Dammit - I'm having to put the files together after the fact, so I must have chosen pic 7 twice rather than 7 than 8.

Fixed.

Grey Hunter posted:

As the enemy are unloading more troops, I'm going to send the last two combat regiments from Fiji out there, along with the Battleship and the two carriers to try and cause some trouble, I can call all these off if the area gets dangerous.

Sam. posted:

This is SigInt, which is listening to radio transmissions, not physically sending a spy. Our SigInt determines the number of soldiers by counting the number of words they hear.

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He'd come back almost every day to see his friends and I knew he wanted to return. So finally he came and said "I can check out in that A-20" and he transferred back to our squadron. In this kid's first A-20 mission, he came off the target and just kept flying straight. He never turned toward home but just disappeared over the horizon. None of us have any idea what happened to him. When we came back and landed his brother was waiting to congratulate him on his first mission.

Grey Hunter posted:

We continue to get reports of the 48th Division is heading to Port Moresby, and I'm trying to send the British carriers north to intercept, but with no idea how long it will be before they arrive, this is a shot in the dark.

goatface posted:

I hope you're going to head south and take Akyab. It's an important place in British colonial history, and full of politically motivated Buddhist monks.

Who doesn't love politically motivated monks?

Grey Hunter posted:

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Once a Betty came down near our position on the line. We went over to the wreck and checked it out. The crew couldn't get out I guess and they were spread out all over. I've never seen so many vertebrae. They looked like hambones