Ultradog MN
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Since Pearl Harbor the Japanese have been on the move. An onslaught of fury and overwhelming power.
Nothing has stood in their way. Singapore fell yesterday and it's british defenders even now are being led into a captivity from which only half of them will survive.
They, the Japanese have already seized the oil rich regions of the Dutch East Indies, wrested Rabaul from New Guinea a month ago and in a few days are going to bomb Darwin in Australia.
The Phillipines wont fall for a few more months but it's already a foregone conclusion that we will lose there.
Meanwhile the ships and the crews of the American, British, Dutch, Australian (ABDA) put up a valiant last stand.
USS Houston will be gone in 2 weeks. HMS Prince of Wales, Hms Repulse and the venerable HMS Dorsetshire who earlier in her career nad put the last torpedos - the coup de gras - in to the Bismarck. All are lost to overwhelming air power.
This first year of the war happened 70 years ago about this time.
Click the link if you want a pretty good read on the events that occured then.
Naval Alamo
Nothing has stood in their way. Singapore fell yesterday and it's british defenders even now are being led into a captivity from which only half of them will survive.
They, the Japanese have already seized the oil rich regions of the Dutch East Indies, wrested Rabaul from New Guinea a month ago and in a few days are going to bomb Darwin in Australia.
The Phillipines wont fall for a few more months but it's already a foregone conclusion that we will lose there.
Meanwhile the ships and the crews of the American, British, Dutch, Australian (ABDA) put up a valiant last stand.
USS Houston will be gone in 2 weeks. HMS Prince of Wales, Hms Repulse and the venerable HMS Dorsetshire who earlier in her career nad put the last torpedos - the coup de gras - in to the Bismarck. All are lost to overwhelming air power.
This first year of the war happened 70 years ago about this time.
Click the link if you want a pretty good read on the events that occured then.
Naval Alamo