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Posts: 4749 (12/25/08 08:15 AM) Chief Master At Arms |
Name the "Four-Piper" Cruisers which were name for State Capitals.
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Posts: 6463 (12/28/08 07:02 PM) |
You got me stumped on this one. I found the California which was renamed San Diego, South Dakota and Marblehead?
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Posts: 6465 (12/28/08 07:25 PM) |
OK, the USS Olympia? Served in the Spanish American War and WWI? For Olympia, Washington.
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Posts: 4765 (12/29/08 11:56 AM) Chief Master At Arms |
Question: Name the "Four-Piper" Cruisers which were name for State Capitals. Answer: USS CONCORD (CL-10), USS RALEIGH (CL-7), USS RICHMOND (CL-9), and USS TRENTON (CL-11) |
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Posts: 4766 (12/29/08 11:57 AM) Chief Master At Arms |
What three U.S. Destroyers were sunk in a typhoon in the Pacific on Dec. 18, 1944 ?
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Posts: 6466 (12/29/08 05:17 PM) |
Spence, Hull and Monaghan?
Correct! Question: What three U.S. Destroyers were sunk in a typhoon in the Pacific on Dec. 18, 1944 ? Answer: USS SPENCE (DD.512), USS MONAGHAN (DD-512), USS HULL (DD-350).
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Posts: 2299 (12/29/08 09:06 PM) Chief Master At Arms |
Here's one for you....
What did they call the cryptology section in Pearl where Rochefourt and his people brokje the IJN codes just before Midway?
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Posts: 6470 (12/29/08 10:24 PM) |
Was it "The Basement"?
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Posts: 1252 (12/29/08 10:26 PM) |
funny farm
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Posts: 2300 (12/30/08 09:23 AM) Chief Master At Arms |
Nope & nope......
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Posts: 2302 (12/30/08 08:42 PM) Chief Master At Arms |
What did they call the cryptology section in Pearl where Rochefourt and his people brokje the IJN codes just before Midway?
It was called Station Hydra
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Posts: 4773 (12/31/08 08:40 AM) Chief Master At Arms |
"Take Her Down " - these famous words were spoken by Commander H. W. Gilmore as he lay wounded on the deck of which submarine in WWII?
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Posts: 6475 (12/31/08 06:19 PM) |
Who said it: "Time shall not diminish the glory of their deeds."?
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Posts: 4778 (01/01/09 08:33 AM) Chief Master At Arms |
General John J. Pershing told his men during World War I, "Time shall not diminish the glory of their deeds."
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Posts: 2304 (01/01/09 12:46 PM) Chief Master At Arms |
"Holy (expletive deleted)! Look at all the (expletive deleted) indians!"...George Armstrong Custer, Montana Territory, June, 1876.
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Posts: 4784 (01/01/09 03:33 PM) Chief Master At Arms |
Question: "Take Her Down " - these famous words were spoken by Commander H. W. Gilmore as he lay wounded on the deck of which submarine in WWII? Answer: USS GROWLER (SS-215). |
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Posts: 2306 (01/01/09 04:34 PM) Chief Master At Arms |
"You realize, of course, that this means war!"....B. Bunny, numerous times, mostly to Yosemite Sam.
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Posts: 6479 (01/01/09 06:07 PM) |
The other quotation from G.A. Custer was..."Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!......." as 20 arrows struck him.
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Posts: 6482 (01/01/09 06:22 PM) |
Who said it: "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police
more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future." ?
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