Jan 1942 Turn sent
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Empire Hotel - a pub somewhere in Melbourne, Australia
Jack "G'day Dave"
Dave Sullivan "G'day Jack, usual thanks mate"
Dave examining the beer in the light "Looks a bit weak today?"
Jack "Sorry mate, problem with the lines, it's on the house"
Dave "Beudy" ... slurp ... "What's the news?"
Dave "Well, our boys just sunk a big battleship off Saigon"
Jack "Ha, That'll teach them chopstick bastards"
Dave finishes his beer with a flourish. "I'll have another quickone then gotta go"
Jack "No worries"
Dave "Umm, Jack, whats the donation box in the corner for?"
Jack as he hands Dave another, "War effort Mate"
Dave "Here, I'll chuck a coupla bob in"
Jack "No mate. Apparently they want clothes pegs?"
Dave "What on earth for?"
Jack "Apparently the Japs are a bit on the nose and our boys need them to fight proppa"
Dave "Now I've heard everything ... I think I'd betta have another drink ... make it a scotch"
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Military Action
Naval battle off the coast of Saigon. The submarine SS Storm was lost attacking the battleship BB Haruna which had been damaged in an earlier action. However the destroyer DD Teredos managed to sink the giant sustaining heavy damage and is now returning to port with the newly elite DD Enounter which had also been damaged previously.
The airforce lost 1 bomber and a fighter attacking a rubber plantation near Saigon. Japan still has access to the resource.
These aircraft were going to be used in
Operation No Smell where supplies of wooden pegs were to have been air dropped to troops on the ground.
No other action occured