All the horse meat in our local supermarkets in France come from Canada, and very nice too. Thank you far off exotic Canadia.
Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.
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Could be basing off who hit, the US subs are effectively a none enity since their bloody torpedoes don’t work.
When this gets back to Adm King ITTL and both British and Dutch are asking whats wrong with his bloody subs he is probably going to hit the roof and probably the Bureau of Ordnance.
Horse meat is still very political in some anglophone countries, to the extent that companies in the business of processing the meat will have campaigns organised against them.
A few years ago Tesco Lasagne was pulled from the shelves because the alleged minced beef turned out to be minced horse. It was a huge scandal.
These were the claims, but how many japanese ships were actually sunk and damaged ?
Surely it would be an APC masquerading as a tank masquerading as an APC? (Or maybe vice versa?).
Ouch - with 10+ losses out of 11 transports, then either
- half the attacking force didn't make it to the landing, or
- the IJN has just lost half-a-dozen scarce destroyers, or
- the sub skippers were either overclaiming or wasting a lot of torpedoes on low-value patrol boats
Either way, the IJN is getting a lesson in the power of Allied submarines against their supply lines - and the Allies are getting a lesson in Japanese airpower and the need to at least contest the air over any place they plan to fight.
At this point in time the MK XIV was a piece of crap...However, the MK X used by the S boats was a reliable torpedo.
Still doesn't change the fact they are basically still shooting duds at the ships.
Heck the RN may with all the failures ask one of the US boats for their Torpes and tear them to pieces to see what is wrong with them.
Then pass the report to the good Admiral which will probably make him blow a fuse.
Heck the RN may with all the failures ask one of the US boats for their Torpes and tear them to pieces to see what is wrong with them.
Then pass the report to the good Admiral which will probably make him blow a fuse.
The Problem with that, is that he will make sure that the Torps are never replaced, just to spite the British. We all know what he's like.
My reading of this is that six subs were in position to start sinking boats as the Japanese came in, with an unknown number joining later. If the British and Dutch ships are two and four respectively, then that could in all probability indicate that those were the six ships in position from the start of the battle, meaning that American officers and bureaucrats are likely to insist that the reason their boys did poorly was that they were out of position, probably because perfidious Albion did not give cousin Jeb the correct intelligence in a timely manner.
Mind you, with British and Dutch boats in the area, the American captains' reports of faulty torpedoes might be able to bypass to BuOrd altogether, going up the British command chain, to be talked about at high-command levels.
It'll be interesting to see what the Japanese losses actually were.
It'll be interesting to see what the Japanese losses actually were.
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That was as much the issue of fraud, ie passing off one meat as another, as soppiness about horsies.
The words political shit storm springs to mind if they pass it onto the captains and if one of them passes it to the press
I have an armoured can of Sturmstromming and I'm not afraid of a remote can-opener in use