Topic: WW2 Trivia 12

The Cooler King · November 22nd, 2005

No dice. It's not the Russians or the Brits. So, who's left?

IAmFighter · November 22nd, 2005

The French did it!

June 7, 1940 - French bomb Berlin

Source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/...index-1940.htm

The Cooler King · November 22nd, 2005

We have a winner.

"On Monday, June 3, 1940, a bit under a month after Germany invaded France, as the Dunkirk evacuation of over a third of a million troops was winding up, and eleven days before German boots would march into Paris, 300 Luftwaffe bombers pounded the city, producing somewhere between a few hundred and several hundred mostly civilian casualties. France's response was to hatch a plan to bomb Berlin in a retaliatory strike. This was not to be an effectively destructive raid, but rather a psychological attack, much like, although even smaller than, the US raid on Japan, flown by B-25 medium bombers from the carrier Hornet nearly two years later."

http://blinkynet.net/wwii/verne.html

IAmFighter · November 23rd, 2005

Guess it's my turn to ask a question then!

What was the first aircraft carrier to be sunk during WWII?

Navy Boy · November 23rd, 2005

Is it the USS Yorktown?

tomtom22 · November 23rd, 2005

No, Yorktown was sunk during the Battle of Midway, June 4 -6 , 1942.

Nov 13, 1941 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.

source: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar...2time.htm#1941

Navy Boy · November 24th, 2005

Darn it you win again.

IAmFighter · November 24th, 2005

Nope, he didn't. He's close (it is British) but not quite. Keep at it!

tomtom22 · November 24th, 2005

Royal Navy Courageous torpedoed and sunk by U-20 17 Sept 1939.

IAmFighter · November 25th, 2005

There ya go! I knew you'd get it. Your turn to boggle the mind.

November 22nd, 2005	Post 112
IAmFighter Centurion	The French did it! June 7, 1940 - French bomb Berlin Source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/...index-1940.htm __________________ \"The advance of hope in the Middle East requires new thinking in the region. By now it should be clear that authoritarian rule is not the way of the future it is the last gasp of a discredited past. Democracy is their goal and terrorists themselves have reason to fear.\" ~President George W. Bush Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army. ~Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings.

November 23rd, 2005	Post 115
Navy Boy I LOVE THE ARMY!!!!!! Gear	Is it the USS Yorktown? __________________ This is Vice Admiral J. Kevin Moran Semper Fortis

November 23rd, 2005	Post 116
tomtom22 Chief Engineer Gear	No, Yorktown was sunk during the Battle of Midway, June 4 -6 , 1942. Nov 13, 1941 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat. source: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar...2time.htm#1941 __________________ "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations

November 22nd, 2005	Post 111
The Cooler King Godfather Gear	No dice. It's not the Russians or the Brits. So, who's left?

November 22nd, 2005	Post 113
The Cooler King Godfather Gear	We have a winner. "On Monday, June 3, 1940, a bit under a month after Germany invaded France, as the Dunkirk evacuation of over a third of a million troops was winding up, and eleven days before German boots would march into Paris, 300 Luftwaffe bombers pounded the city, producing somewhere between a few hundred and several hundred mostly civilian casualties. France's response was to hatch a plan to bomb Berlin in a retaliatory strike. This was not to be an effectively destructive raid, but rather a psychological attack, much like, although even smaller than, the US raid on Japan, flown by B-25 medium bombers from the carrier Hornet nearly two years later." http://blinkynet.net/wwii/verne.html

November 23rd, 2005	Post 114
IAmFighter Centurion	Guess it's my turn to ask a question then! What was the first aircraft carrier to be sunk during WWII?

November 24th, 2005	Post 117
Navy Boy I LOVE THE ARMY!!!!!! Gear	Darn it you win again.

November 24th, 2005	Post 118
IAmFighter Centurion	Nope, he didn't. He's close (it is British) but not quite. Keep at it!

November 24th, 2005	Post 119
tomtom22 Chief Engineer Gear	Royal Navy Courageous torpedoed and sunk by U-20 17 Sept 1939.

November 25th, 2005	Post 120
IAmFighter Centurion	There ya go! I knew you'd get it. Your turn to boggle the mind.