Don't need to worry about fuel for ships if said ships are at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.By the end of the month, fuel would no longer be a concern for the Imperial Fleet.
The IJN is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers!
Don't need to worry about fuel for ships if said ships are at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.By the end of the month, fuel would no longer be a concern for the Imperial Fleet.
Hmmm....Aboard YAMATO, Inland Sea, Japan March 17, 1945
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An hour later, the Admiral's staff had been called to a meeting. New intelligence had come in. Decisions would soon need to be made in coordination with the Fleet Command and the government in Tokyo. By the end of the month, fuel would no longer be a concern for the Imperial Fleet.
Munich would be taken eventually, but not today, nor this week and unlikely this month. The city could wither as it was defended by old men, young boys and women. The objective was further to the east.
They moved an infantry company with just two teucks? Suggest either a shuttle with two trucks taking the afternoon, or at least 8-10 trucks. These are deuce and a halfs, not semi trailers, right?Cloppenburg, Germany March 16, 1945
Half a dozen tanks started up again. A trio of light tanks darted out ahead. A handful of halftracks overloaded with riflemen and machine gunners who had overrun the roadblock that had been manned by a few dozen teenagers stiffened by a handful of recovering veterans from half a dozen different fronts followed the light tanks. The Shermans then followed. They expected contact as contact was being initiated every hamlet and town over the past several days.
The advance guard bounded up the road. The light tanks would sprint forward for several hundred yards, find an overwatch position and then cover the half tracks and medium tanks for throughout the morning. Bangalore torpedoes were used to clear a single minefield just before noon. After that, the spearhead cleared the next hamlet of a dozen villages with an intersecting cow path before stopping for lunch. As they were policing the area before heading east again, two quarter master trucks arrived with another company of infantry. Fuel tanks were refilled and a few additional boxes of ammunition were loaded into the half tracks before the spearhead sought to take another ten miles before dark.
Fifteen miles the rear, brigade and divisional staffs were busy. They finally had a breakthrough and the complex art of passing the Guards Armoured Division through the lines of an infantry heavy corps had started.
"As they were policing the area before heading east again, two quarter master trucks arrived with another company of infantry."They moved an infantry company with just two teucks? Suggest either a shuttle with two trucks taking the afternoon, or at least 8-10 trucks. These are deuce and a halfs, not semi trailers, right?
The IJN is playing chess while the USN is playing bowling. On the same table.The IJN is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers!
Tweaked the sentence. A follow on infantry company arrived and then 2 quartermaster trucks showed up to top off the spearhead mid day."As they were policing the area before heading east again, two quarter master trucks arrived with another company of infantry."
My reading is that it was a Company of Infantry as well as two Quartermaster Trucks.
The IJN is playing chess while the USN is playing bowling. On the same table.
I can see it now:as a side note, I am aiming to wrap this timeline up by no later than mid-January 2023, so things might move quickly.
Major Asshole, SIRI can see it now:
Dark Fester: This is going too slow, prepare to fast forward
Colonel Fester: Prepare to Fast Forward
Dark Fester: Fast Forward
Proceeds to speed through to the end of the war to find the Druidian Princess
How many Assholes we got on this Thread?Major Asshole, SIR
More realistically, this is getting close to a few novel lengths of writing and given where I am in my career, I can't afford to have an unfinished novel rattling in my head for two or more years.
As a side note, this was supposed to start off as a little project on a better defense of the Western colonial possessions of the South China Sea region 6+ years ago and then it just expanded....
Don't you just love when that happens? Best of luck finishing, we'll all be here reading and waiting for more updates. I think you have done an excellent job juggling about fifteen different balls in the air all at once and am looking forward to the conclusion when it happens.As a side note, this was supposed to start off as a little project on a better defense of the Western colonial possessions of the South China Sea region 6+ years ago and then it just expanded....
Hold up, it is over yet, we still need to see the end of the war.Fester..it's been a great ride, lots of friendly assholes.. a weird band of brothers.. Thank you...