1400 Hours, 10 December 1942, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii – The carrier HMS Illustrious, the battleship USS Massachusetts, the heavy cruiser USS Portland, and six destroyers departed Pearl Harbor and as soon as Illustrious recovered her air group, the task force headed south at 14 knots bound for the South Pacific. Rear Admiral Denis Boyd had arrived in Honolulu two days earlier for a visit with the US Pacific Fleet’s leadership and was happy to visit with the ship he commanded during the raid on Taranto. Boyd and Admiral Chester Nimitz both stood on the dock to wish the task force farewell and good luck in their upcoming deployment. Rear Admiral Boyd was spending another week at Pearl Harbor and he was then scheduled to board a plane for the United States where he would conduct further business in San Diego and Washington, DC before heading home to Great Britain to assume duties as the Fifth Sea Lord.
April 1942 Alternate Indian Ocean
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1600 Hours, 10 December 1942, Near the Chindwin River, Burma – Fighting in the hills along the west bank of the Chindwin River was getting increasingly intense as troops from the 17th Indian Division of IV Corps aggressively probed the positions of the Japanese 33rd Infantry Division. The primary goal of Lieutenant General Scoones IV Corps in this area of Burma was to tie down Japanese forces and eventually push Allied lines to the Chindwin River. The Japanese were growing concerned as they could not determine if the Allies were engaged in a limited patrolling and probing action or if their operations were a precursor to a major offensive.
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Zheng, can you include this Canadian submariner?
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“Under his command, SPITEFUL completed the three longest patrols for a S-boat at the time, sinking multiple Japanese ships. By April, 1945, SPITEFUL had bombarded installations on the Andaman Islands and Christmas Island. "Just to keep them on their toes."
http://www.saoc-central.ca/_html/_fred_sherwood/_fred_sherwood.html
“Under his command, SPITEFUL completed the three longest patrols for a S-boat at the time, sinking multiple Japanese ships. By April, 1945, SPITEFUL had bombarded installations on the Andaman Islands and Christmas Island. "Just to keep them on their toes."
Would it not be they all taste like pork! Read somewhere human is supposed to taste like pork; never tried it & hopefully never will.
Well I don't know about the rest of you but given the amount of sodium in the average American's diet I can imagine we taste a bit like heavily salted pork.
I can share with you very sadly, from personal experience, that burnt human flesh smells a lot like overcooked bacon. To this day the scent of burnt bacon sickens me.
The Danes get a tip off about the German invasion and bombard the initial attack with a mix of high explosives and surstromming based tear gas.
The Germans promptly surrender unconditionally to avoid such cruel weapons being used on them.
1700 Hours, 10 December 1942, Bombay, India – A convoy of 12 empty freighters escorted by the destroyers HMS Duncan and USS John D. Edwards, the merchant cruiser HMS Corfu, and the cruiser HNLMS Sumatra arrived in Bombay to take on supplies for the hard-hit areas in Bengal and the Arakan. Loading the merchant ships would take time and the return convoy was not due to depart for Trincomalee for three days.
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