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From: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Yet Another Net Slogan, sayings
Message-ID: <349@cepu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 12:03:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 28 12:03:24 1984
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Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods)
Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA
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In article <274@ll1.UUCP> cej@ll1.UUCP (Chuck Jones MMOCS) writes:
>[Ahh, war...  Oh...]
>
>	How about the W.W. II Army commander (who's name escapes me,
>but just ask my brother, he'll tell you) who was cut-off by the
>Jappenese on a small island.  He and his men were making a last
>stand, and he knew that supplies nor personnel were ever going to
>make it through.
>
>	When asked over the radio if there was anything they could
>send him, he replied "Send more Japs!"
>
>	He, however, lost.
>
>...ihnp4!mgnetp!ll1!cej			Chuck Jones

Close, but no cigar.
(1)It was a Marine.
(2)His name (as I recall) was Major Deveraux(sp?)
(3)It was Wake Island.
(4)The 'send more Japs' was padding put after the message to make the message
   up to a standard length.The actual contents of the message was a report that
   the defenders had beaten off the first attempt at a landing.
       Another example of misplaced padding was a message sent to
   Hasley during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Hasley had taken TF 58.1
   (the fast carrier group) and TF 58.1.5 (the Fast Battleships) off
   after the Japanese Carrier TF (a semi decoy, they had very few
   planes),the major Japanese strike force (a Battleship/Cruser group)
   was approching the landing beaches (at Leyte) and the Admrial
   commanding the landing force wanted to know where his Battleship
   support force was.

INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH [marker] WHERE IS TASK FORCE 58.1.5 [marker] ALL THE
WORLD WONDERED

   When the message was decoded, the decoding officer neglected to strip off
   the trailing 'ALL THE WORLD WONDERED'. This produced ,naturally, a great
   uproar, with hurt feelings on both sides.
-- 
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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