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Can we claim ships not yet built? If so, I'm pulling for the Hiyō, the the most salutatory carrier that has ever sailed.
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My turn for story time: My paternal grandfather was in the Army Air Corps, and missed his boat to the European theater. He was then sent to India where he spent the rest of the war being a drill sergeant or something because he came up with the idea for farm boys to put a rock in the pocket that they start marching with in formation. Most of the troops on the boat he missed ended up in the Battle of the Bulge. My maternal grandfather had his 9th birthday the day after Pearl Harbor (WAY TO RUN THE FUN, GREY HUNTER!  )His father (my great-grandfather) was called up, however, to serve in the medical corps. The family moved to San Francisco so he could finish some formal medical education. He then received orders to report to Augusta, GA to become part of an unnamed general hospital which they took to mean a field hospital getting prepared to send to Europe. As it turns out, he served at the Hotel turned Hospital the Forrest Hills-Ricker and spent the duration of the war mostly giving GI's with the clap injections of penicillin.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:MacArthur still would have managed to gently caress everything up and lose it. You're coming close to summoning Fred.
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Grey Hunter posted:The first sleep deprived update begins – the rest of the war will be fought on minimal sleep, which will be role-played as serous inter-service rivalries and incompetence amongst generals. Today is done on a nice 4 hours after two days with three hours between them. (7 hours in a three day period.) The absolute best parenting advice that was ever given to my wife and me when our first child was born was if it is at all practical: instead of taking turns within each night getting up with the baby, take turns for entire nights. That way, every other night you're guaranteed some uninterrupted sleep. It worked wonders with our firstborn who was tough to get back to sleep. Our second kid is super easy to get back down at night, we were unprepared for that.
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Grey Hunter posted:
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Apr 24, 2016 05:05
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Hey Grey, is the CV Hiyō still on track to launch at the end of this month?
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Jul 7, 2016 17:25
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Grey Hunter posted:I turn to my plans. First I visit industry. Barring any delays, my lucky ship launches this weekend. 
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Grey Hunter posted:
This is from a couple of days ago, but what does the # next to the Hiyo's name mean?
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Oct 20, 2016 18:49
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:22 November 1942 If only it had been the bow that got torn off... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:Grey is one step ahead of you here, as he's been training his troops to fight without supply from day 1. You think the Hankow veterans care about a lack of supply? They'll be shooting down B-29s with rocks fired from slingshots made with the viscera and bones of their defeated
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Grandpachat: my paternal grandfather missed his boat to the European theater, where his unit ended up participating in the Battle of the Bulge. Not many made it home. He, on the other hand, was sent to India instead. He was fresh off a farm, and helped other fresh off the farm boys learn how to march by telling them to put a rock in their pocket and always start out on the leg with the rock. Spent his whole war in India doing that. My maternal grandfather was two days after his 13th birthday when Pearl Harbor was attacked. HIS father was a physician and spent the war at an army hospital in Augusta, GA. Mostly giving penicillin injections to guys who caught the clap. Nth Doctor fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Apr 30, 2017 |
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Apr 30, 2017 04:34
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Mikl posted:The Unyo shall rise again Same. 
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Jul 11, 2017 22:10
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Brace yourselves. The charts are coming.
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Sep 1, 2017 16:35
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:Time honored, perhaps, but utterly dishonorable. Said as we basecamp all of China at once.
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Sep 7, 2017 15:14
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Cartoon posted:That will make it two CL Leander classes I've had sunk from under me. If Grey could only take a minute to stop getting my ships sunk, I could tell everyone about how great MacArthur is. -Fred
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bunnyofdoom posted:Empress Battle axe is a bitching ship name Seriously awesome. 
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Sep 22, 2017 13:25
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:11 October 1943 I love torpedoing off the Bourgeoisie. gently caress them and their ownership of the means of production.
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Oct 12, 2017 17:50
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Great graphs, GH. Now you just need to rename "Allied AI" to "AI Allied" to match the other three entries.
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Nov 2, 2017 19:10
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Grey Hunter posted:
YOU ALLIED FUCKS STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM MY SHIP~!
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Nov 9, 2017 16:48
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Jobbo_Fett posted:
I just realized I accidentally unbookmarked the thread a month ago. And then this.  Farewall, Hiyo, thank you for being so full of greetings.
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Nth Doctor, Mikl
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Kodos666 posted:it seems the subs skipper wasn't good enough Why must you kidd so?
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Ikasuhito posted:Grey should send an invasion force to that little strip of
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May 6, 2018 15:00
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Grey Hunter posted:My net is dead and until i get a new router there wil be no updates. IJN is getting pretty obvious with their news suppression. How many carriers have you lost?
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May 14, 2018 18:09
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PhotoKirk posted:USS Califorina's armament: I don't understand the cal listing after the guns. Is "12 × 14 in (356 mm)/50 cal guns" describing 12 guns, with a 14” diameter? Or is it 14” long barrel of caliber .50?
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May 25, 2018 17:05
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Thanks for the cool info, guys!
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McNally posted:CVL Cabot? Did I miss something? Where'd she come from? Boston, presumably. Probably fleeing CA Lowell's annoying chatter.
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SerthVarnee posted:Or both And I will sail five hundred tiles And I will sail five hundred more Just to be the ship that sailed One thousand tiles Just to sink right at your port
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Jul 31, 2018 15:17
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Grey Hunter posted:
Its a submarine. Sinking and remaining in service is what it does.
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Oct 4, 2018 01:14
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Grey Hunter posted:One more day of this lads, your doing good work. We'll be in San Francisco by Christmas!
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Did anyone bother to check out early days thread weirdo Fredleander's website? Dude apparently published 7 ebooks in a series called Saving Macarthur all about how he did in the Philippines, apparently.
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mercenarynuker posted:Who's got Cabot for their lucky ship? They're getting a hell of a workout on it It turns out, the Cabot isn't a CVL at all. It's an experimental aircraft launching submarine. IJN intelligence has made a tiny goof.
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SavageGentleman posted:Grey, you're already going through a lot of bs in this game, I'm all for ending things in August, because this will give you more time to play games that actually work. I'm down for something like this. GH you've done the Emperor a great service and are emblematic of the Bushido spirit of the Japanese people. It will be alright to step away and turn command over to others, so you may begin a retirement from the war you have so effectively waged.
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Chunky Monkey posted:I love how something as important as the Soviet Union declaring war on you is relegated to a single line at the end of the intelligence report. Never change WiTP. Never change. IIRC, the atomic bomb was merely an all caps last time around.
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Hot drat! Well done GH, I'm glad I was able to get into this thread on Pearl Harbor day (number one). It's been a pleasure rolling along with your domination of the Pacific for the last four years.
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Epinephrine posted:Encore! 
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