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>>39860849

You shoot Hate a glare of ultimate and unrestrained hate, which is something like trying to drown a fish in water. You lower Sammy back into her chair by her damn mouth, gripping the back of her head with your free hand, and finally resume your seat, feeling a bit pissed. You fish out your smartphone to check your itinerary and e-mails, but Hate holds up a hand.

“Hold on, skip. I got that thing I wanted to give ya.” He scoooches his chair over a few feet to where a few spare buffet-table-island things are stored in one corner; the ones they roll out for dinner and bigger parties. From behind one of them, he fishes out a fairly long, thin white box. “I got you something.”

He schooches back to you and hands it to you, then claps his hands before him on the table and watches you with this wide-eyed stare underlined by an incredibly smug grin. “It's absolutely perfect for the occasion.”

Gingerly, you lift the lid – and find... a cane.

And oh god, what a cane it is.

The length of the ebony-wood shaft is buried under a tremendous number of sequins; some of them still showing the watered-down elmer's glue used to attach them. Then someone went after it with glitter – in fact, it looks like it was rolled around in a tub of it. But the truly spectacular bit is the headpiece; a glass globe which contains a small, wiggling animal. A fish. An actual fucking fish. You can see that the top unscrews to allow feeding, removal or replacement. And the breed -

>>39860849
>“I was filled with like two hundred guys!”

goddamn it sammy

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>>39860878

“... dogfish.” You say aloud. “A fucking... dogfish.”

“None finer for the fighting seaman!” Hate says, beaming smugness at you.

You stare at the fucking “cane” laid out before you in all it's gaudy glory. “A pimp cane with a dogfish.”

“You slyyyyyyyyyyy-”

“-debbil-dawg-”

“YOOOOOOOU!” Sammy and Hate finish in unison; the little girl jumping onto her seat again so she can reach over the table and slam a thunderous high-five with Hate.

“I had DesDiv 6 help me decorate it,” Hate sniggers, “but that headpiece was all me, baby.”

You crumple. He got you. He finally got you back for all those fucking dog jokes.

Well, the joke's on him. You're an Admiral now, and you wield the fell and terrible power of Paperwork. Wait till he opens his email, that smirking fuck.

While Sammy and Hate continue sniggering at your expense, you turn back to your smartphone, and try to figure out where you're needed today.

>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.
>Maybe we should attend some range practice – you want to see if the Japanese ships improved their gunnery from historical precedent... and you want to see if Willie can get her turrets pointed the right way.
>You should probably see Willie again. You still need to figure out something to boost her confidence a bit, and like you told someone earlier, you're going to want every destroyer you've got.
>Write-in?

>>39860923
>>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.

really am concerned about her, and getting on more shipgirls' good side is a benefical effort.

>>39860923
>>You should probably see Willie again. You still need to figure out something to boost her confidence a bit, and like you told someone earlier, you're going to want every destroyer you've got.

>Maybe we should attend some range practice – you want to see if the Japanese ships improved their gunnery from historical precedent... and you want to see if Willie can get her turrets pointed the right way.

Let's show those Tojos what "Continuous-Automatic" and "RADAR fire control" means.

>>39860923
>Range practice, we can give Willie some much needed attention and scout out anybody worth knowing.

>>39860923
>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.

>>39860923
>>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.
>>Maybe we should attend some range practice – you want to see if the Japanese ships improved their gunnery from historical precedent... and you want to see if Willie can get her turrets pointed the right way.

>>39860923
>>You should probably see Willie again. You still need to figure out something to boost her confidence a bit, and like you told someone earlier, you're going to want every destroyer you've got.
ATTEND TO THE WILLIE

>>39860923
>You should probably see Willie again. You still need to figure out something to boost her confidence a bit, and like you told someone earlier, you're going to want every destroyer you've got.

>>39860923
>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.

>>39860923
>You should probably see Willie again. You still need to figure out something to boost her confidence a bit, and like you told someone earlier, you're going to want every destroyer you've got.
and
>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.

>>39860923
>>Maybe we should attend some range practice – you want to see if the Japanese ships improved their gunnery from historical precedent... and you want to see if Willie can get her turrets pointed the right way.

>>39860923
>You should probably see Willie again. You still need to figure out something to boost her confidence a bit, and like you told someone earlier, you're going to want every destroyer you've got.

>>39860923
>>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.

>>39860923
>Maybe we should attend some range practice – you want to see if the Japanese ships improved their gunnery from historical precedent... and you want to see if Willie can get her turrets pointed the right way.

>>39860923
>>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.

>ask what sammy did to get in the brig

>>39861088
Stick around after the thread and you'll find out

>>39860923
>>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.
this girl here. why does she think she's so expendable?

>>39860923
>Maybe we should check up on Naka. She really worried you with how she was talking.

As much as I want to help Willie, she is in good hands. We just need to remind Sammy she is a big sister now.

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>>39861094

I would've sworn we were supposed to have a chat with Hornet at some point.

calling vote for NAKA-CHAN TOOT TOOT

>>39861094
Ohh KK thought it would be bigger, guess it still can be.

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>>39861094

Remind me again. Which one was Naka?

The one we took to the repairman?

>>39861145
At some point today, yeah

>>39861145
Think Hornet will be Ok being mentored under a responsible Nip carrier when Big E is away?

>>39861170
The CL who got wrecked the fuck out during the battle and was talking some rather alarmingly close-to-suicidal talk afterwards.

>>39861145

No worries. You won't be the first Navy man who couldn't find his way back to Hornet.

wwwww

>>39861170

FOUR FUEL CAN'T MELT ELEVEN STEEL BEAMS ANON

>>39861170
The one that had the O2 torps detonate in the rack.

>>39860849
Drawfags, one serving of Sammy taking 200 dicks, please.

>>39861213
>>39861208
>>39861203
Ahhh. Her.

>>39861208
Planefag plz it's two fuel and four ammo.

>>39861208
but four ammo can

>>39861193
Hornet did better than the nips, she was crippled by Zuikaku,
Pair em up it will be fine.

>>39861232

FUCKING MEME IS STUPID ANYWAY

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>>39861218
Sadly I am not nearly drunk enough to bother.

On the other hand, I might have enough done that I'll have art for the next SW89 thread.

>>39861248
Most are generally and the few that aren't tend to either lose their spark or BECOME Stupid.

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It's time.

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>>39860849
>She scowls at you, and in a flash hops up on her chair so she can stare you down from somewhere around eye level. “You sayin I too young to know!?”
>“Uh-”
>“I was filled with like two hundred guys!”
>“But-”
>“EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD DUDES!”
>“Okay, that's a good po-”
>“D means the diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick,” she says, drawling it out. “PEEEEEEEEEENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-”

>>39861247
I am in favour of this.

>>39861298
It's been time for a few hours
You're late, buddy

>>39861322
She's a little shit but honestly this is answering a lot of questions about shipgirls

>>39861322
Thankfully none of these guys taught Sammy the art of seduction.

So how far down the time period do you think shipgirls go? I'd personally like to see The Golden Hind or even the fucking Argo.

>>39861352
Have you ever seen an 18 year old sailor try to pick up chicks? They taught her everything they knew.

>>39861389
Oldest that's been seen was an ironclad torpedo ram

>>39861348
>fortykeks.png

>>39861329
They can work together to fuck with Kaga

>>39861413
At least Kaga will not bully our daughter Hornet as much.

>>39861389
Argo would completely stomp Myth Units.

>>39861348
At least the spirit of the submarine Archerfish did not return.

Then she has the knowledge of a goat and a rooster as well.

>>39861433
Kaga bullie Hornet LOLOLO
Hornet could cut her with Corsairs
or ask about damage control

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>>39861459
Nope. But I hope we get Albacore.

>>39861523
What did Albacore do?

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You decide to check in on Naka again. She unsettled you badly with how she was talking yesterday, and you think it a bad idea to leave her alone for too long. After saying goodbye to Hate and Sammy, you strike out across base for the infirmary. The sun is almost directly overhead now and Yokosuka has become a sweltering hotplate. There isn't even a sea breeze to stir the stifling air. You find yourself wishing for a t-shirt and shorts, but you're an Admiral, and all – it wouldn't do to look slovenly. You reach the hospital with a few polite salutes between passing officers. There's a van with antennas on the top, and lots of big bright letters in moonrunes plastered on its side. You give it a curious look, and brush right past into the glorious AC of the infirmary.

Your phone begins ringing. You fish it out and plaster it to your ear as you signal the desk attendant an apology. “Admiral Settle speaking.”

“Hello.”

A bolt of lightning blasts your spine out of your back to leave your unsupported body hovering in midair like a boneless bag of guts.

It's the voice of God Almighty.

“Admiral Greenert,” you say, your mouth suddenly very dry. “How can I help you?”

“Heard about the fracas at Yokosuka,” he says bluntly.

This is it. Right here, in the hospital, the other shoe finally falls – just when you'd managed to forget about it long enough to drop your mental defenses. You stiffen up, stand straight, and prepare.

>Sir, I miscalculated.
>Sir, I lacked discipline.
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

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>>39861554
Sank Tenryuu

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.
What was it Goto said was coming from this?

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>>39861554
>What did Albacore do?

"Wherever I go, I must also rape."

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

>>39861577
>>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.
I will not give you enough rope to hang me with thank you very much

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>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

>>39861577
>>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

>>39861577
>>Sir, I miscalculated.

Understated subtlety--like the British!

>>39861577
>>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

Just like we did with Goto, see what he wants to say first.

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

>>39861577
>>Sir, I miscalculated.
>>Sir, I lacked discipline.
>>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

ALL OF THE ABOVE

>>39861582
>Sank Tenryuu
I think you mean
>misidentified Tenryuu as a transport and sank her.

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.
Never strike first!

>>39861577
>>Sir, I lacked discipline.

Can't play the waiting game with our superior can we?

Navy men, or army/airforce men, do being very straightforward with your wrongdoing served you well in the past? Or is it more wise to wait for the officer to accuse you?

VOTE CALLED EARLY BECAUSE LANDSLIDE, ERWEGOOOOOOOO

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.
[Screaming Internally]

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>>39861582
>>39861554
Oh and sunk Taiho

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>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

>>39861582
And Sazanami. And Ooshio.

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.
Expecting a much less enthusiastic critique than Goto, but it's still not a great idea for Settle to jump the gun. Again.

>>39861614
>>39861582
Served her country well.

>>39861656
Even better.

To be fair, Shoukaku isn't bad if she does want the D.

Though Seattle is a gentleman to some extent.

>>39861656
Yeah, still sank her.

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

>>39861678
>>39861673
That good?

She is a cruiser killer.

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.

"Yes, sir."

>>39861663
Oh boy, it's all over. Nice job /tg/, try and pull the same shit on our CO that we did with an equal.

>>39861582
Whos the other ship slut?

>>39861678
>that pic
I'm going to need a translation for this.

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>>39861663

>>39861695
USS Albacore: great sub or the greatest sub?

>>39861743
>>39861678

Sazanami and Ooshio probably.

>>39861721
And a carrier killer.

>>39861748
second

>>39861748
IQDB, anon. Click the arrow next to the post number.

Now you know how to find sauce yourself.

>>39861762
The blond one doing the raping? albacore?

>>39861762
Wow.

13 ships, including a carrier, a cruiser, and two destroyers designed to hunt subs, and damaging 5.

A credit to the team.

>>39861748
Protip: Click the arrow after the number in that post. Then image search. Then iqdb. Go to the Danbooru result.

>>39861743
Fan made interpretation of Albacore.

>>39861791
I wish is could see, sorry.

>>39861577
>Sir, I'm waiting very patiently for you to do the talking.
Man Sammy is getting into all the shit

>>39861797
>>39861762
>>39861756
Surfaced in the middle of the Japanese Carrier group. Targeted the flagship. Trusted the Nip damage control to sink the ship.

Are we actually using the pimp cane?

>>39861791
Yes that's Albacore.

>>39861873
Did one of the nips onboard Taiho set off a cig that blew the ship up?

>>39861904
Damn should be

>>39861941
With that ticking time bomb of a disaster, your guess is as good as mine.

>>39861459

Reading from their account of the event -

I know he got sick on the after deck as they led him forward to the brow. Not knowing what else to do with him, they tied him to the dumpster at the head of Pier 9 and left him there. It wasn't long before I saw a couple of marines making there way along the head of the piers checking for illegally parked cars. They checked this car, then that one, then this goat, then that car, then another car. Suddenly they slammed on their brakes, backed up, and starred in disbelief at the goat. The goat stared back. They drove down the pier and talked to the topside watch on the boat on the south side of the pier for a couple of minutes, then they came over to talk to me. They wanted to know who the goat belonged to and I told them "I don't know who he belongs to. He was there when I came on watch." I guess the topside watch on the other boat must have told them the same thing, as the sped off to get instructions on what to do next. Thankfully I got relieved before anything abnormal happened.

This, anons, describes a submariner.

>>39861941
>>39862012

Activated fans that drew aviation fuel vapor onto the hangar deck.

Which is you know where they try to fix everything.

>>39861941
No, a fuel tank burst and was pooling in the front plane elevator pit. They spent so long trying to pump the fuel out that it vaporized and filled the hangers. Then they got the bright idea of opening all of the port holes and doors to flush it out. Instead, the vaporized fuel filled the whole ship, turning it into a big FAEB.

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>>39861658
>Never strike first!

l e m i d w a y f a c e

>>39862033
>>39862031
>>39862012
All it takes is one torpedo and a damn lucky sub.

>>39861941
Ignition source could have been anything, but when the damage control officer tried to disperse gasoline fumes by turning all the ventilation to max he basically turned the ship into a fuel-air bomb.

So we ignored the likely idol or news van in front of the hospital?

Think the ship girl secret is out?

>>39861756
>The submarine spotted a wooden inter-island steamer loaded with Japanese civilians. Albacore decided to stage a surface gun attack. After ensuring the ship was afire, Albacore dived to avoid an airplane.

Not a very nice ship girl in the making, that's for sure.

>>39862070
>>39862033
>>39862031
There was the story of a Japanese officer who saw the flight deck just blow up out of no where.

>>39862079
Probably, this quest needed more DRAMA anyway.

>>39862105
>>39862079
My bet is our Nip destroyer decided to become an idol instead of a navy ship.

>>39862070
>Ignition source could have been anything, but when the damage control officer tried to disperse gasoline fumes by turning all the ventilation to max he basically turned the ship into a fuel-air bomb.
christ

>>39862143
Why not both? It's not like she's any good at actually being a ship, so if we can make her into an idol we can get some free PR *and* increase morale *and* make her useful. Three boats with one fish.

>>39862087
I don't think any of the subgirls are going to be particularly nice people. As far as naval warfare goes, subs are the most brutal way of saying it.

I wonder if any of the girls from Crossroads will get together to just sort of... be there for eachother. Like a pair of vets fishing in the middle of the lake so they can watch the other's back and just try to relax.

>>39862273
Do we have any crossroad girls on base right now?

>>39862273
sister sara

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>>39862292

>>39862292
The only Japanese ships that took part in Crossroads were the Nagato and the Sakawa. We haven't heard about either of those, so I guess not.

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>>39862292
Not as far I can tell.

>>39862292
Unless Nagato was mentioned, nope. Which does bring up the question, how will Arizona react knowing her big sis was one of the ships that got nuked?

>>39862327
Eugen?

>>39862225
US wise? possibly, though the japanese ones aren't characterized badly. Though in planefag tradition, they might be really messed up in the head now.

>>39862394
yep, pringles is part of the nuke club

>>39862375
Arkansas?

It's a bit odd how people freak out over not knowing anything about the shipgirls, but nobody actually asks them. Wouldn't that be the first thing?

>>39862374
What is this about?

>>39862451
iqdb it and find out

>>39862427
Pennsylvania

>>39862427
Pennsylvania

>>39862448
Hell, the shipgirls don't really know much about themselves.

>>39862451
Distances relative to ground zero of the nuclear detonation.

>>39862395
What famous subs are there on the Nip front? I-25? The forest fire setter?

>>39862448
I keep mentioning this, but there's only so much that you can do in a quest format-story when crazy shit and hijinks keep happening. I think we've made decent progress so far.

>>39862448
It's heavily implied that many don't exactly know themselves.

>>39862359

Which, and I know I'll catch flak for this, was wasteful and petty. We should have kept the Nagato as a damn war trophy and stuck it somewhere as a museum ship.

There's *no* surviving examples of IJN shipbuilding from that era, you know that? none. The very first purpose built carrier? gone. All these ships that were this unfortunate conglomeration of amazing and fucking retarded? gone.

then again, we did a lot of stupid shit like that during and post-war that the historian in me fucking cringes at.

>>39862427
Pennsylvania

>>39862476
>>39862468
Ahhh thanks anon.

>>39862448
What are you, crazy?

>>39862375
Thinking further about it, I'm not so sure the ships would be too upset about it.

Yea, I'm sure they would have preferred to retire in a museum somewhere, but failing that they went out in an impressive manner and the data collected was used to protect the lives of sailors on every ship built from then on. Seems like a better way to go then being hauled to the scrapyards to be made into razor blades.

>>39862490
>Hell, the shipgirls don't really know much about themselves.
The Marine knows what a penis is; Start there.

>>39862491
The game has I-8 (the one that traveled to germany), I-19, I-168, I-58, I-401 and U-511 turned Ro-500.

Oh, and a composite character for the IJA's crappy submarine transport vessels.

>>39862498
>>39862476
>>39862468
Neveda was there too. And New York. WW I era BBs.

>>39862532
Through dick, unity

>>39862522
Did we learn anything from Crossroad other than nuking a fleet is not going to work?

>>39862496
No, I agree. The whole thing was ill-conceived and of dubious research value.

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>>39862534
>Ro-500.

GODDAMMIT JAPAN

>>39862496
They did for SCIENCE ghost. No one really knew what the effect of nukes going off on warships would do or if they could still work afterward. The cold war was a hell of a time. The navy saw those ships as expendable.

>>39862559
I would assume we learned about how to NBR protect crews, but I'm a chemist so fuck if I really know

>>39862427
Transylvania

>>39862496
Museum ships cost a great deal of money to maintain.

>>39862539
Yes, but Arizona was one of the only two members of the Pennsylvania class BBs. So they are technically sisters.

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You were never pegged by anyone as flag-rank materiel – not even by yourself. Events conspired to change that, of course, but you're STILL not flag-rank materiel, and you know it.

However, even you have learned a few things about how to survive as an officer in the Navy – especially one holding a seagoing command in (what used to be) a new and exciting era of budget cuts. You keep your goddamn mouth shut through the pregnant pause, and let the Chief Of Naval Operations finish talking.

“Ballsy,” he says bluntly. “Damn ballsy of you.”

“Sir, I-” you swallow. “I miscalculated.”

“Who cares?” he replies bluntly. “You pulled it off.”

All that code-of-silence shit that just ran around your head finds an exit and buggers off. “S-Sir?”

“You pulled it off,” he says, sounding mildly pleased. “None of our esteemed allies beat each other to death, did they?”

“No, sir,” you answer matter-of-fact.

“Then you pulled it off,” he says bluntly. “I talked with Goto. I know him from when I ran 7th fleet; he was homeported here. He says you handled it with aplomb.”

“Oh,” you say.

“Is everything okay, Settle?”

“Sir...” you pause. “What about not rocking the boat?”

“I meant it,” he said, his tone deadly serious. “Don't. Those two boats rocked each other, in case you forgot. This was expected, Settle.”

>>39862522
like the bombing of Drensen or whatever that one german town was? Wars are a nasty thing.

>>39862539
>New York.
+10 anti-sub
-20 rad resistance

>>39862522
Nagato and Sakawa are both traumatized by the event though. Prinz hints she doesn't like it either.

It's one thing to go out in a blaze of battle glory. it's another to be dragged out and put down like a dog and used as a guinea pig at the same time.

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>>39862559

Radiation sucks to die from, if the animal tests are anything to go on.

Also that you can't just scrub away radiation with lye and soap.

>>39862585
A transylvania vampire?

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>>39862597

You blink. “S-sir?”

“Ask Goto what they were like when they first started showing up. We were able to take our sweet damn time with it; using the lessons they learned firsthand. They didn't have that luxury. And the JSDF being so small, they didn't have the time. The Chinese weren't going to lend a hand, either.” He sighs. “Bringing American NBE's into it? Tensions were bound to rise. The Imperial Japanese Navy was one of those organizations that believed you could make sailors better, tougher and stronger via direct violence; they handed it around as liberally as the Army did, back then. You're tilling a field full of land mines; some explosions are inevitable.”

“I see, sir.”

“You don't sound like it,” he says. You glance at your watch – 0943 what time is it in the 'States? “Goto says you came close to getting killed.”

“Maybe, sir.”

“Maybe, nothing. You were lucky Hornet was there.” He sighs. “Ask Goto about secretaries, and their functions.”

“Yes sir,” you say, acknowledging the order.

“Now that's settled, I wanted to ask about-” you hear a rustle of papers in the background - “SS-257. Showed up the day you arrived, eh?”

“Yessir.”

“Damn lucky. Always good to have more subs...” he sounds a little wistful – and more than a little tired; the obvious exhaustion slipping past his brisk, businesslike tone. “And Harder's one hell of a sub. We've already got him back on the register, but has anyone had the Talk with him?”

You pause. “Unfortunately not, sir.”

“Do so. He got into a ruckus of his own yesterday.”

“I'll do it immediately.”

“Excellent. Keep me updated,” he says, and hangs up.

>>39862598
Dresden, and yeah that was a pretty horrific firebombing.

>>39862605
The poor goats left on the battleships during crossroad.

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>>39862623

You pocket your phone and slump against the wall, picking a spot behind a decorative potted plant so you won't get a Look from the receptionist. Taking your hat off, you can feel the sweat in your hair chilling in the cold currents of the air conditioning.

Goto went to bat for you. Now it makes sense – he approved of your reaction, and even the CNO had fully expected unavoidable upsets like this – a few, at any rate. There's always such a thing as a few too many.

But did Goto tell the CNO how you might've avoided the entire fracas completely? You doubt it. And even you know Kaga was on the razor's edge of committing some violence serious enough it couldn't be forgotten or papered over. You threaded the needle on that bleak beach, and you're just now realizing in the aftermath how close you came.

“Konnichi~waaah!”

You look up to see a man with a hefty TV camera on his shoulder carefully slow-walking backwards down the hall, a practiced heel-toe step keeping his equipment perfectly steady. Another man is walking backwards just behind him, keeping a fluffy boom mike suspended just over his head, but out of the camera's view. A cheerful, almost bubbly voice is floating through the antiseptic air; the high, fast pitches of a young girl speaking Japanese. It's punctuated by a 'sqeee-chunk!' every few seconds; a vaguely familiar noise to you.

Crutches? Someone on two crutches.

The boom-mike operator says something, and the voice abruptly switches to English. “Hell~ooo!” it singsongs brightly. “The fleet's top idol here, reporting for duty! As you can see, I had some bad luck, but because of the prayers and well-wishes of everyone at home, I pulled through!”

>>39862143

>>39862639
> become an idol
welp

>>39862601
So good at anti-sub that subs just runs up to her to die at her propellers.

But she did survive both nukes at Cross road! That got to count for something!

>>39862639
I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Naka's the fleet idol but we alone know that she's not as bubbly as she projects.

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>>39862639

The little backwards procession advances into the lobby proper, giving you your first look at – yes, that's Naka, slowly crabwalking forward on two crutches as she beams into the camera. The receptionist perks up and looks pretty as the camera retreats far enough to put her in frame. “I'm ready to check out!” Naka calls to her, and she smiles and pushes a clipboard forward for Naka to sign with a dramatic flourish. “Yay!” she says, her eyes – actually – closing – you didn't think it was possible to do the eyes-closed smile thing; for a real person, but she does it, and she makes it look natural. “I'll be back on the open ocean soon, with your support!” She pumps her fist in the air, much like Kongou does, and giggles. “Nothing can stop a true idol!” She does that two-finger V thing that's all the craze over here, cocking it near one temple while winking with one eye while deploying a lopsided grin; all in one smooth motion. Her pigtails bounce with the energy of it, and her skirt even swirls a bit – she must've cocked her hips, but not enough to be immediately noticeable.

The cameraman shouts something, one word, and both men abruptly shoulder their equipment while exchanging what sound like obligatory pleasantries with Naka. She smile after them until they exit. The receptionist picks up the clipboard and runs after them – apparently, it was their prop.

Naka smiles towards the door for a minute or two more, and then she turns the sunlight off. Leaning one side against the receptionists little corral, she twists and leans over till she can crumple over it, her midsection clearly still hurting like a son-of-a-bitch. A few tears trickle down one cheek.

>... do you need help?
>Naka, what the fuck was with the cameramen?
>What the HELL did I just – is that really the same – how in the howzaphat

>>39862677
>That got to count for something!
-15 rad resistance

>>39862602
I'm not saying that it was a fun experience for the ships involved, just that Arizona might understand that it was done in good intentions instead out of malice.

After all, I'd argue that every ship probably has some sort of trauma about how their career ended. Even the museum ships probably have some serious survivor's guilt.

>>39862692
>... do you need help?
Pain and comfort first, bewilderment later

>>39862692
>... do you need help?

>>39862692
>Other
Offer her your shoulder.

>>39862692
>... do you need help?

>>39862692
>>... do you need help?

>>39862708
Knowing planefag it's very likely.

>>39862692
>... do you need help?

I think Settle would know what just went on, having been thrust into the limelight himself.

>>39862692
>... do you need help?

>>39862692
>>... do you need help?

>>39862692
>... do you need help?

>>39862692
>>... do you need help?

>>39862692
>... do you need help?

>>39862692
>Help her to a proper fucking seat
Shes proud so if we ask she will just reject it

>>39862747
I can't imagine getting trotted out with his newly-gimped leg for the media circus after LA.

>>39862735
I am for this.

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>... do you need help?

Think the nip civilians know she is not just a girl, she is also a ship?

>>39862692
Offer her a shoulder and/or a smoke. No words needed.

>>39862692
>>... do you need help?


She probably does.

We might want to ask her for advice about our accidental date.

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>>39862692
>... do you need help?

>>39862559
You say that like that isn't an important piece of information.

>>39862692
>... do you need help?

The whole idol thing is probably great for PR.

>>39862816
I think there might be more reliable girls and girls who does not gush over JAPAN STRONG for this purpose.

Like the girl we brought to the repairman.

>>39862816
No, no we might not. We need to make sure that this extravagant coping mechanism isn't going to fucking break her, not talk about how a girl talked to us and now we feel funny

>>39862592

Oh, I know. But jesus, dude! the very first purpose-built carrier was Japanese. and it survived the war to be cut up later. That's this huge chunk of naval history- gone. Just poof, vanished. Ditto the Nagato and Prinz Eugen , which, had we not expended it in some revenge test bullshit would stand as the only remaining examples of IJN and kreigsmarine shipbuilding afloat.

I mean, yes, crossroads supposedly taught us a lot (though it stands to point out that the lessons crossroads taught us were never once tested, so it's of dubious value at best) but god DAMN it. Exact same shit we did with Nixe II and the Big bertha and the karl gerat we captured.

It's just... god damn it.

>>39862583
Unfortunately no.

Cold war anti-radiation gears are terrible.

>>39862692
>... do you need help?

>>39862857
Couldn't hurt to ask for advice.

If we *ask* Naka-chan if she needs help, she will probably put the act right back on and say no. Instead, we should *give* her help.

>>39862863
Good point. But they probably would be returned to Japan and Germany, where they would become focuses of nationalism. Which may not be the best for America at that time.

>>39862692
>>... do you need help?

>>39862874
We'll be fine man.

>>39862874
YES.
YES IT COULD.
"IT DOESN'T HURT TO ASK" IS HORRIFICALLY SHITTY ADVICE
ESPECIALLY WHEN DEALING WITH FUCKING BATTLE TRAUMA

>>39862788
Settle took an early flight to Yokosuka so that the Navy would have time to schedule him for more impromptu speeches.

>>39862708
>Arizona might understand that it was done in good intentions instead out of malice.
See, I'm not sure about that. The whole exercise was basically Strauss and Blandy going "I want to nuke some ships and see what happens." We didn't learn anything new, and what data we did get we could have gotten in other ways, ones that didn't poison the island or sailors.

>>39862863
That's 'Murica for ya.

>>39862893
Dunno, she already opened up once. I think she might come to rely on Settle as one of the few that know her private persona.

>>39862863
>Ditto the Nagato and Prinz Eugen , which, had we not expended it in some revenge test bullshit would stand as the only remaining examples of IJN and kreigsmarine shipbuilding afloat.

Not so. Several German warships survived the war. The Soviets got the lions share of them because the Germans had sunk the majority of their navy, but even they put them into active service for another decade.

Then there was that U-Boat the Norwegians used for like 30 years before turning it into a memorial.

>>39862863
At the time, who would want them? We couldn't hand them back, Japan legally wouldn't own them any more. The U.S. would only see them for the carnage they did to our side. So it's either the nuke test or the scrap heap for them.

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It takes you a moment to reconcile the bright, bubbly *presence* in front of you with the dejected, hopeless creature curled up in a hospital bed just yesterday. And yet, there she is, grunting around the pain, trying to curl up around her aching midsection.

“... do you need help?” you say, stepping out from behind the plant.

Naka jerks up in surprise, and yelps in pain. She loses her grip on the marble countertop of the receptionist's desk and slides down the wood-paneled sides to weep in pain on the floor. “... Settle.”

You kneel next to her. “Shall I fetch a nurse?”

She jerks her head into a shake, her pigtails tickling your face as they fly past. “No... just... hurts...”

“Painkiller?”

“Already...”

“What do you want, then?”

She stays silent for long seconds, clearly biting the pain back where it can't impede her tongue. “My room. Just... just wanna lie down...”

Before she can object, you slip your arms behind her shoulders and under her knees and pick her straight up, keeping her curled around her midsection; not flexing the injury any more than necessary. She exhales sharply in pain, but makes no comment as you carry her down the hall to her room. She's surprisingly light; less than you'd expect of an ordinary human girl of her age – she's a slender little thing, and fully “human” at the moment, it'd seem. You lay her in her bed, unfolding her slowly and carefully – you know what it's like to be stitched up across a place with muscles that prefer to flex. She groans in relief as she slowly finds her laid-out position, sinking into the hospital bed, tears of pain still trickling from her eyes.

>Naka, what the hell was all that with the TV?
>She was happy? Bubbly? You're bubbly? You're actually a real fucking idol? Like, for really real? What?

>>39862863
We let the Enterprise go to the guillotine, along with nearly her entire task force posse like South Dakota and Washington. We weren't going to throw in the bills for enemy warships.

>>39862943
>Naka, what the hell was all that with the TV?

>>39862943
>Naka, what the hell was all that with the TV?

Last thread it was asked what ship could put up with Sammy.

Same answer as before, Kongo, she sank her the first time and she's so bubbly that Sammy's swears would go right over her head.

>>39862943
>She was happy? Bubbly? You're bubbly? You're actually a real fucking idol? Like, for really real? What?

>>39862943
Other

Hold her hand until the pain settles a bit

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>>39862943

... and why was that picture tagged Naka? Dammit danbooboo!

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>>39862943
>Naka, what the hell was all that with the TV?

>>39862943
I'm not sure if that's Haguro dressed as Naka or Naka using Haguro's hairstyle and accessories.

>...this isn't your first interview, is it.

>>39862943
>Naka, what the hell was all that with the TV?

>>39862943
>Naka, what the hell was all that with the TV?

>>39862943
>>Naka, what the hell was all that with the TV?
>>She was happy? Bubbly? You're bubbly? You're actually a real fucking idol? Like, for really real? What?

>>39862943
>>39862981
Holy shit this +1

>>39862944
Could you imagine how much money a big E museum would make?

>>39862943
>Be quiet for a little bit, or maybe talk about your last stay in the hospital

>>39862863
The allies were extremely worried about "lost cause" style revisionism springing up in postwar Germany and Japan. Any symbols of the former regimes, or anything that might be used as a symbol, had to erased. Combine that with the time periods general apathy towards historical preservation and it's surprising anything survived at all. Even the Misaka was nearly scrapped.

>>39862981
Yeah, this. Alternately, talk about nothing important to distract her.

>>39862992
Cosplay tags will often include the corresponding character tag. Haguro cosplaying as Naka, in this case.

>>39862943
"Feeling better? You want me to tuck you in and get you a teddy full of morphine?"

>>39862943
>>She was happy? Bubbly? You're bubbly? You're actually a real fucking idol? Like, for really real? What?

>>39862943
>Naka, what the hell was all that with the TV?
Just who do you have to keep impressed with that sort of injury?

>>39863020
>The allies were extremely worried about "lost cause" style revisionism springing up in postwar Germany and Japan. Any symbols of the former regimes, or anything that might be used as a symbol, had to erased.

Worked really good too, as evidenced by the FUCKING EXISTENCE OF KANCOLLE ITSELF

>>39862943
>>She was happy? Bubbly? You're bubbly? You're actually a real fucking idol? Like, for really real? What?

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>>39862970
Yeah, Kongo is the better choice. Sending Poi! in to handle her would not go well Sammy was built after the Solomons, so she would know about Yuudachi's little sail. No matter what kind of front Yuudachi put up, Sammy would see her as a dirty little bitch who likes to break the rules of war and keep fighting after surrendering.

Sammy would try to kill her. Not in a "ha ha look at them go!" or a "WOOO CATFIGHT!" way. She would straight up try to murder Yuudachi out of pure loathing. We don't want that to happen.

>>39863048
Or Japan being Japan and still thinking they were the victim of WW II.

>>39862981
You fucking waifuing piece of shit. You don't hold the hand of someone who hates you and wishes you were dead.

>>39862943
>Naka, what the hell was all that with the TV?

She's not in shape to put on a brave face.

>>39862981
> until the pain settles
Oh you.

>>39862981
>Hold her hand until the pain SETTLEs a bit

Hue

>>39862944
Poor North Carolina, to see her Enterprise-sama and BB comrades get turned into scrap. I'm kind of surprised not that many states wanted to save the BBs that bore their names.

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>>39863020
>Even the Misaka was nearly scrapped.

Because after years if neglect and bombing damage, she was a piece of junk. She wasn't almost scrapped to wipe her from history; she was 15,000 tons of junk steel that post-war Japan desperately needed. Nimitz had to sink a lot of money into restoring her.

>>39863056
That's stupid and you're stupid. The formula behind kancolle is really damn simple. Military nerds (they're everywhere, as evidenced by World of Warships, War Thunder, World of Tanks, etc) plus standard japanese preference for moe, cute and personifications.

>>39863048
Well it kept them from arming up again for nearly 70 some years.

>>39863101
They turned the Darwin bombing raid into one of the boss-tier enemies. Japan and their revisionism can drink my shit.

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>>39863056
>Or Japan being Japan and still thinking they were the victim of WW II.
Pretty sure this is a popular misconception. Only the right-wing fringe in Japan gets all revisionist.

Finally caught up, I feel bad for the dogfish. Tiny bowl like that? Geeze.

>>39863154
Their PM seems to be on that side though.

>>39863056
From first hand accounts I've heard, most in Japan know they started the war and did some pretty bad shit to the people they conquered. I think the whole ultra-right wing thing being dominate there is completely overblown.

>>39863154
The problem is that the "right-wing fringe" happens to be the ones in control of the government

>>39863152
They turned literally every WW2 naval action into a fucking boss fight. It's a WW2 naval themed game, of course it's gonna do that.
It's literally the same to the 2847982734926734872634 shooters where you kill brown men from the middle east.

>>39863152
go to bed Ridire

>>39863195
Oh? That is good to know.

Thanks anon.

>>39863154
Nah, they're just the blatant loudmouths.

Just look at their school cirriculum - it skims over or outright ignores everything that isn't NIPPON STRONK

>>39863152
>>39863208

I didn't mean to start a fight guys. I was just ranting, I'm sorry.

>>39863152
>>39863208
Come to think of it the american media industry has managed to do a pretty good job at brainwashing their population into thinking they were significant at beating the nazis. Ain't that revisionism too?

>>39863262
>implying any other country or state isn't the same way

>>39863270
Longer term, started right after WWII so it's not something most people these days notice.

>>39863262
Go check your own history book, dude.

>>39863262
>Just look at their school cirriculum - it skims over or outright ignores everything that isn't NIPPON STRONK
This doesn't match up with what I've heard at all, which is that their school curriculum is very matter-of-fact about what happened.

>>39863270
>Arsenal of Democracy
>fighting a war without weapons
>American soldiers and aid weren't significant contributions to the war against Fascism and Imperial Japan

lolokay

>>39863091
Allegedly the Russian ambassador demanded she be scrapped as revenge for the Russo-Japanese war, but she was in such a sorry state at the time he changed his mind.

You do bring up a good point though, postwar Japan could hardly affords to just let thousands of tons of good steel just sit around.

>>39862944
>>39863006
>Big E is abandoned to a fate of being scrapped in hell.
>Meanwhile, Big T still floats despite all the hardship and effort it took keep her together all this time.
It's so sad. Why are the yanks such heartless bastards?

>>39863281
Come to Australia. Our history curriculum is 90% "LOOK AT ALL THE HORRIBLE THINGS WE DID TO THE NATVES WHITE PEOPLE ARE EVIL AND SHOULD FUND EVERY ABO FOREVER VIA CENTRELINK THE END".

>>39863264
It's not your fault, it's one guy being an idiot.

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>>39863270
>At Sabaton concert
>Singer basically says 'Thanks for coming over and saving our asses dudes' before they launch into Primo Victoria
>Guy near me chants 'USA USA USA USA'

>>39863307
Texas had to go back to drydock didn't she before she went to her museum berth?

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>>39863270
Oh look, the elusive Vatnik has popped out of his hole!

>>39863270
Oddly enough, if you really look it it. It was Spain who really won us the war. They bowed out of it and let the Allies have full access to the Mediterranean. They could have teamed up with Germany and locked off the straits, preventing us from taking out Italy or stopping the Germans from getting to the oil fields they needed so bad.

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“... Naka?” you ask after a few minutes of unlabored breathing from the slender girl. “What was with the TV cameras?”

“Idol,” she says flatly, as if you're an idiot.

“Allow me to rephrase,” you say politely. “What the FUCK were you doing out of bed and clunking around on those crutches when you're nowhere near recovered yet? They just patched your hull, but your machinery's still fucked, you un-”

“Of course I *fucking* understand!” she spits venemously, the back of one black-gloved hand laid over her eyes. She sucks in a deep breath and lets it out slowly as she composes herself. “I'm an Idol. The Navy likes it... good image.”

>>39863328
BLYATT CYKA

>>39863319
There not even people

I was reading on Arizona's memorial, and when I got to the part where oil slicks from the ship was nicknamed tears of Arizona I couldn't help myself. Dammit, why am I getting emotional over a 60 years old ship.

>>39863344
remind her she can do the delicate idol thing from the bed.

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That gives you pause. Shipgirls still scare the shit out of a lot of people – literally every fundie sumbitch that draws breath has managed to work them into their bigoted hyperlunacy somewhere, and even ordinary folk view them as just the flip side of the abyssal coin – a nasty supernatural thing that is unknown, dangerous and should just piss off already. Having one as a happy, bubbly idol... it'd be like an American shipgirl kneeling before Oprah to be knighted as the worlds newest talk-show host, before being bequeathed her own vassal kingdom of guaranteed multi-millions viewership. A host to surpass Doctor Oz, verily.

“... oh,” you say quietly. “Well... good job.”

“Thanks,” she says darkly.

“I mean it,” you say, pulling up one of the guest chairs and plopping into it. Naka hears the seat creaking, but she doesn't bother to uncover her eyes and look at you.

“Don't you have more important things to do than babysit me?”
>That's why I came to see you. I need to have... a Talk, with Harder. I was hoping you could help me with that.
>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?
>Yeah, I have to go make sure no ships are trying to kill others or themselves OH WAIT

>>39863328
I acknowledge that American support was quite significant. But that's not what people think when they think "USA" and "Nazis" in the same context, and you know it.

>>39863319
Canada is exactly the same thing.

>>39863349
Because that memorial is intense

>>39863307
>>Meanwhile, Big T still floats

Barely. She's in a sorry state now. 100+ years sitting in salt water does bad things to 1912-vintage steel.

>>39863345
(((((((((((

>>39863365
>>That's why I came to see you. I need to have... a Talk, with Harder. I was hoping you could help me with that.

>>39863365
>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?

Time for distracting.

>>39863365
>>Yeah, I have to go make sure no ships are trying to kill others or themselves OH WAIT

>>39863365
>>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?

>>39863349
because she died without the chance to fire her guns in anger, she died with men screaming for salvation in her hull, she died with men terrified and lonely and drowning so slowly as her hull filled

She died, Anon. And she didn't die a warrior's death. She died with her throat cut in bed, with just enough time to know she was dying, and there was abso-fucking-lutely nothing she could do about it.

>>39863365
>Yeah, I have to go make sure no ships are trying to kill others or themselves OH WAIT

>>39863365
>[x] That's why I came to see you. I need to have... a Talk, with Harder. I was hoping you could help me with that.

>>39863365
>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?

>>39863344
Naka-chan is a goddamned professional. Mad respect.

>>39863365
>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?
She needs a distraction without being coddled.

>>39863365
>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?
This. This can only go places.

>>39863404
>>39863376
Will any ship in our time be remembered as fondly?

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>>39863342

Fluff, sometimes you say shit that strikes us all as completely fucking retarded.

And then you say shit like this, which proves you read. Books, even.

He's right, by the way. Not only would Spanish/Axis air control of the Gibraltar Straight have allowed them a much better shot at victory in North Africa, but it would've made it possible to ship that North African oil over the Med, as well. But Franco was like, lol, no fucking thanks; his demands of Hitler for cooperation was basically "re-arm our entire military, so we can deal with Allies hellbent on assrape, or we're staying out of it."

Hitler was not amused. He had... words.

>>39863404
>She died, Anon. And she didn't die a warrior's death.

Dying in combat is a warriors death no matter how hard you try to spin it. If the USN could have pulled off that kind of surprise they would have, and they frequently did whenever they decided to visit Truk.

>>39863404
How do you combine the worst ways to die. Burning and Drowning.
Be on Arizona

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>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?

>>39863365
"No. The God Almighty came down from the heavens, pointed directly at me and said "Settle." "Yes, God?" "Take care of the ships, we need them blowing up the Abyssals, not themselves or each other." "Yes God." "Also, don't trip over Hate. You've got a bum leg.""

>>39863365
>>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?

With a grin showing that we are just messing around.

"I wanted to see how you are doing."

>>39863430
If any die as pointlessly and terribly. Then yes

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>>39863365

>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?

>>39863270
Wait, I tbought America helped supply the Allied Forces since the beginning of the War? Shit, as far as I know, american supplies really helped the Brits when the Nazi were bombing everything and doing their best to blockade the isles Or some shit like that

Forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong, my country tends to skim over WWII because we did little more than send a couple expeditionary forces to Italy back then.

>>39863439
Nips know Truk was coming. They moved all their important vessels from there.

>>39863404
At least she got justice. The IJN paid for their crimes with their utter extermination.

>>39863448
Oh I like this phrasing a lot more. We've got our own Navy piling shit on us too

>>39863365
>>That's why I came to see you. I need to have... a Talk, with Harder. I was hoping you could help me with that.

>>39863438
Was it Franco who decided this or the remenant of the opposing forces during the Spanish civil war (the socialists, the non-Franco-ists) that pushed him to this?

>>39863479
60% of russian steel was from America, that kinda sounds like a big deal to me.

>>39863365
>>39863390
Distracting sounds good. We were suppose to talk to Harder "immediately", but dealing with re-incarnated navy ships, we're practically writing the books
>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?

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>>39863270
>Uncle Joe, cira 1945
>"JESUS FUCK OPEN A SECOND FUCKING FRONT IKE GOD DAMMIT ARE YOU LISTENING IS THIS FUCKING PHONE WORKING SECOND FRONT SECOND FRONT SECOND FRONT NOW GOD DAMN YOU GET OFF YOUR FAT CAPITALIST ASSES AND INVADE SOME MOTHERFUCKERS TAKE THE PRESSURE OFF DUDE WE'RE DYIN OVER HERE

>Soviet Russialand, cira Cold War - PUTIN'S WILD RIDE:
>LOL LEND-LEASE WAS USELESS AND TINY WE TOTALLY DIDN'T NEED THEIR HELP WE DID THIS POLL AND IT SEEMS THAT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES THAT WERE LIBERATED BY THE US THINK THE US WON THE WAR THAT'S BULLSHIT WE TOTALLY KICKED THE NAZI'S ASS, UNLESS WE DECIDED NOT TO AND LET THEM FIGHT THE POLISH RESISTANCE TO THE DEATH SO WE'D HAVE AN EASIER TIME DOMINATING AND RAPING THAT COUNTRY AFTERWARDS, BUT WHO LIKES POLES ANYWAYS, RUSSIA STRONG

>>39863365
>That's why I came to see you. I need to have... a Talk, with Harder. I was hoping you could help me with that.

>>39863448
I am for this.

Right amount of snark.

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>>39863372
>mfw my high school history teacher was in the military
>mfw my mandatory 2 history courses 90% of the time was about all the little important shit Canada did in WW2 and how the germans were shit scared of us in WW1

>>39863365
>That's why I came to see you. I need to have... a Talk, with Harder. I was hoping you could help me with that.
I can already see the whole thing going pear shaped, and it is glorious.

>>39863506
Franco did that on his own. The Republicans were crushed totally by 1939.

He just saw the writing on the wall, and decided it was much wiser for him to sit out the war for the time being.

>>39863365
>Not a god damned thing, so I came to piss you off. Nice motif you got going here, with the shuttered windows and no fan on. I can hit up Halloween USA, get some mood music, some plastic pumpkins and bats and shit. Sound good?

It hurts to see Naka like this. All we can really do for her is provide some company.

>>39863430
Hornet

aka "The Tokyo Torch" Hornet
aka "Dropping Bombs on Your Moms" Hornet
aka "I never met a dead Jap I didn't like" Hornet
aka "Paper and wood buildings! Come ON!" Hornet
aka "Hitler was a fucking amateur and you can quote me on that" Hornet
aka "Only two bombs?" Hornet

>>39863480
Their was also the bombing of Kure too, it was pretty much the USN administrating the coup de grâce to Japan's naval power.

>>39863506
>Was it Franco who decided this or the remenant of the opposing forces during the Spanish civil war (the socialists, the non-Franco-ists) that pushed him to this?

Seems it was Franco. He wasn't stupid.

>>39863448
this

>>39863479
We made 2752 liberty ships, basically feed all of england during the war,
After we feed all of europe.
They got closer to starving to death in 49 than 42.

>>39863479
Nah I don't mean like that. I was thinking about stuff like the jillion nazi-shooter FPSs and stuff and how there's a non-trivial number of people really do think Uncle Sam personally went out and kicked Hitler's ass and shit.
Should've phrased better, I apologize. In the end it's all exaggeration.

>>39863535
We did go after Netherland by ourselves, and take Juno beach, and take part in Market Garden.

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>>39863561
>implying it wasn't the guiding hand of the Blessed Saint Uncle Samuel that forced Hitler to suck-start his pistol


non-American pls go

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>>39863540
>>39863547
I hope he survived the war tribunal in the end. He is a smart man.

>>39863565
Remember Zwolle!