barbagris
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You mean better salaries and 6 weeks holiday a year?
It's Pearl Harbor remembrance day - NEVER Forget
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You would be ok , you look Aryian !
Grumpy Ole Codger
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Does he walk with a funny duck step, support a small moustache, and have a creative comb over?You would be ok , you look Aryian !
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I will say he has a very masterful glint in his eye !
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That same Japanese carrier fleet followed up with an attack on Darwin in the Northern Territory Australia on 19 Feb 1942 with an even larger number of aircraft. The first time Mainland Australia came under attack.
Bombing of Darwin - Wikipedia
The bombing of Darwin - Fact sheet 195 – National Archives of Australia, Australian Government
The main force involved in the raid was the 1st Carrier Air Fleet which was commanded by the same Vice-Admiral Chūichi Nagumo. This force comprised the aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, and Sōryū and a powerful force of escorting vessels with two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, seven destroyers, three submarines, and two other heavy cruisers on distant cover. 188 attack aircraft were launched from the Japanese aircraft-carriers in the Timor Sea, and a second raid of 54 land-based bombers.
In the first attack, which began just before 10.00 am, Kate bombers hit shipping, infrastructure and the town; and Val dive bombers escorted by Zero fighters then attacked shipping in the harbour, and the military and civil aerodromes. The attack ceased after about 25 minutes. The second raid, which began around 11.45 am, involved high altitude bombing of the Royal Australian Air Force base by twin-engine machines.
The two raids killed 235 people with a further 300 to 400 wounded. Thirty aircraft were destroyed, including nine out of the ten flying in defence, nine major ships in the harbour and two outside were sunk, and some of the civil and military facilities in Darwin were destroyed. Two US naval vessels were attacked, the USS William B. Preston Seaplane tender, damaged 14 killed and the USS Peary Destroyer, sunk 88 killed.
The Japanese lost four aircraft, two Val bombers and two Zero fighters. One of the fighters crash-landed on Melville Island to Darwin’s north, and its pilot was captured by a local tribal Aboriginal man, to become the first prisoner of war taken on Australian soil.
Bombing of Darwin - Wikipedia
The bombing of Darwin - Fact sheet 195 – National Archives of Australia, Australian Government
The main force involved in the raid was the 1st Carrier Air Fleet which was commanded by the same Vice-Admiral Chūichi Nagumo. This force comprised the aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, and Sōryū and a powerful force of escorting vessels with two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, seven destroyers, three submarines, and two other heavy cruisers on distant cover. 188 attack aircraft were launched from the Japanese aircraft-carriers in the Timor Sea, and a second raid of 54 land-based bombers.
In the first attack, which began just before 10.00 am, Kate bombers hit shipping, infrastructure and the town; and Val dive bombers escorted by Zero fighters then attacked shipping in the harbour, and the military and civil aerodromes. The attack ceased after about 25 minutes. The second raid, which began around 11.45 am, involved high altitude bombing of the Royal Australian Air Force base by twin-engine machines.
The two raids killed 235 people with a further 300 to 400 wounded. Thirty aircraft were destroyed, including nine out of the ten flying in defence, nine major ships in the harbour and two outside were sunk, and some of the civil and military facilities in Darwin were destroyed. Two US naval vessels were attacked, the USS William B. Preston Seaplane tender, damaged 14 killed and the USS Peary Destroyer, sunk 88 killed.
The Japanese lost four aircraft, two Val bombers and two Zero fighters. One of the fighters crash-landed on Melville Island to Darwin’s north, and its pilot was captured by a local tribal Aboriginal man, to become the first prisoner of war taken on Australian soil.
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Und, darf Ich mal sagen - I kann schon etwas Deutsch.I will say he has a very masterful glint in his eye !
barbagris
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Yes - but that's just the M&S undies.
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EasTexRIII
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My Pearl Harbor thread only took 3 pages to turn into an undies thread
Grumpy Ole Codger
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Apologies for that, not the right time or place!My Pearl Harbor thread only took 3 pages to turn into an undies thread
