The Fate of a Toad Convoy

• Main Author: Kugler, Jimmy
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: University Press of Mississippi 2023
• Subjects: Bismarck; Eagle Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496842817.003.0004

For the first time, Toads appear in their homeland. Officers discuss the next stages of the war, beginning with a naval force steaming to Eagle Island to capture it as a staging ground for future attacks. A spy warns the Frogs of this new threat. Quickly, Frog airmen lift off to attack the convoy, the first sea battle of the war. This Frog attack on a Toad naval force was possibly inspired by the 1942 film Air Force . Also, in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in early March, 1943, B-17 pilots spotted and repeatedly attacked a Japanese convoy. In this first Frog victory of the war (where destroyed planes and ships are tallied like scores in an athletic contest) the Toad commitment to killing “all the Frogs” is matched by a single Frog sentiment: defeating the enemy at any cost.