#abda

[elrincondeabda]

[melodys-riversong]

http://www.projectforawesome.com/watch?v=wWYmuovmLto

Please learn about this rare disease and vote for the American Behcets Disease Association at project for awesome this year! Behcets disease is rare and underdiagnosed. If you've never heard of it, don't worry, neither have the paramedics. Life with this disease is hard and the more people who understand and advocate for people like me the better! The ABDA strives to help patients get the respect and advocacy they desverve. They also help to fund and inspire research into treatment and eventually a cure for this terrible autoinflammatory disease. Behcets disease is like MS, Lupus, Chrohn and Fibromyalgia rolled into one. Occular involvment and brain lesions mean that delaying diagnosis can put peoples health in serious danger of long term damage and can even lead to death. Please help spread the word and support the ABDA this project for awesome.

Don't forget to be awesome!

[omniatlas]

Australasia 77 years ago today: Bombing of Darwin (19 Feb 1942) https://buff.ly/2tuB5d0 Allied efforts under ABDA proved unable to halt the Japanese offensive. In mid-February the vital British naval base of Singapore surrendered, followed 12 days later by the sinking of the main ABDA naval force when it tried to stop the Japanese invasion of Java. Inbetween the Japanese bombed Darwin, the first and largest foreign attack on Australia in history. #australasia #history #welovemaps #map #1940s #1942 #aboriginalaustralians #allies #asiapacificwar #pacificwar #australianhistory #abda #february #february19 #dutcheastindies #japan #japaneseempire #worldwar2 #ww2 #northernterritory #wwii #secondworldwar #britishempire #britishcommonwealth #worldwarii #maps #todayinhistory #historytoday #historyteacher #historygeek (at Darwin, Northern Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuDl1YmAe4j/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rrz8vp6pbum5

[askbadlydrawnnebris]

start a DND game with the other abd's

so some mods play dnd...

[uss-edsall]

When reconsidering the debacle that befell on the Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942, it is hard not to feel as if one is viewing a colossal tragedy that no Western military commanders might have eluded, let alone overcome. There one must concede that ABDAFLOAT’s limited naval forces would have produced no better results in the final analysis, whether commanded by Bill Halsey, Raymond Spruance, Frank Jack Fletcher, James Somerville, or Andrew Cunningham.

In The Highest Degree Tragic, by Donald M. Kehn

[askbadlydrawnnebris]

YEET

[uss-edsall]

At the time, of course, the catastrophe suffered by Rear Admiral Doorman’s Combined Striking Force in the Java Sea had set off a blizzard of messages among the various commands: Which ships had survived the battle and how many of these were still combat-worthy? Where were these surviving vessels licking their wounds? The truth is that these questions—to the extent they pertained to Allied offensive capabilities—no longer mattered in the least; the remnants of the variegated fleet had been shattered, scattered, and neutralized as decisively as Humpty Dumpty. . . . The vessels still afloat were intent on one thing at that stage and only one: escaping the East Indies slaughterhouse. And nothing would ever put the Allies’ naval striking force back together again.

In the Highest Degree Tragic: The Sacrifice of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the East Indies during World War II, by Donald M. Kehn

[askbadlydrawnnebris]

hey Nebris, what does NAP stand for again?