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

The French did it!

June 7, 1940 - French bomb Berlin

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

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

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

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

Is it the USS Yorktown?

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

Darn it you win again.

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

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

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