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Warspite1
Okay,
1. What was Operation Fork?
2. What was Operation Menace?
3. Which RN carrier was loaned to the US Fleet in 1943?
4. Which US carrier was loaned to the Eastern Fleet in 1944?
5. Which two Japanese cruisers collided with each other after Midway?
6. Which three German ships made the "Channel Dash" in 1942?
7. Which ship did Warspite hit from 13 miles away at Calabria in 1940?
8. A boarding party from which British destroyer freed British seamen from the supply ship Altmark in 1940?
9. Which was the first Royal Navy capital ship lost in WW11?
10. Why was Grand Admiral Raeder so annoyed by the torpedoing of the merchant ship Athenia by U-30 in September 1939?
Just went through my email account and found that I've recieved answers to these ones there.
J.G.N's answers;
1. Operation Fork (May 10, 1940) was the Allied invasion of Iceland.
2. Operation Menace (September 23-25, 1940) was the Allies unsuccessful attempt to capture Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal).
3. HMS Victorious was Loaned to the US fleet November 20, 1942 and refitted at Norfolk. She then served from February-August 1943 with the US Pacific Fleet.
4. Task Force 58.5 (March-May 1944), the USS Saratoga and three destroyers were loaned to the Eastern Fleet.
5. Two Japanese cruisers IJN Mogami and IJN Mikuma collided with each other after Midway.
6. Operation Cerberus the "Channel Dash" (February 11-13, 1942) consisted of the Battlecrusiers Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen, 6 destroyers, 14 torpedo boats, and 26 E-boats.
7. At the Battle of Calabria (July 9, 1940) HMS Warspite hit RN Giulio Cesare from 21,500 meters away.
8. On February 16,1940 a boarding party from the destroyer HMS Cossack freed British seamen from the German supply ship Altmark.
9. The battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at Scapa Flow on October 14, 1939 was the first of the five Royal Navy battleships and battlecruisers lost in WWII.
10. The U-30 sighted the unarmed passenger ship SS Athenia and fired two torpedoes her hull without warning. The attack was in violation of the prize rules U-boats were to be operating under, that obliged them to stop and search potential civilian targets and allow passengers and crew to abandon ship before sinking their vessel.
He also made me aware of a fact that I was unaware of - quite
surprising info
And on account of me being too tired to take anything too serious atm - I know of WWI and WWII, but WW11? [:D]
