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Post by ГАГИ on Mar 24, 2012 9:56:26 GMT 1
You're on the right track my friend... I guess I had better answer it... 35mm WW2 Japanese Type 89 “Rokuoh-Sha” (made by Konica) Air force Machine Gun Movie Camera that they used for Training Machine Gunners. This could be mounted on the wing and controlled remotely (by the wires in the case) or mounted in the Waist Gunner’s position for hands on target practice. Bravo  You may proced MP. More info on: ww2weaponsforum.com/showthread.php?616-Japanese-Machine-Gun-Camera |
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Post by Major Pain on Mar 25, 2012 3:19:42 GMT 1
Xmen: You were pretty close... Would you please do me a favor and ask a question? It would really help me out and I would appreciate it. MP
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Post by LouisXIV on Mar 28, 2012 21:29:11 GMT 1
Okay, nothing's happening here, so I'm hijacking this thread.
Off to the Pacific with some easy questions.
Only one U.S. aircraft carrier survived the whole war. Name her.
Two U.S. fleet carriers and two Japanese fleet carriers were not originally intended to be fleet carriers? Why not?
(No Major Pains need apply.)
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Post by Major Pain on Mar 28, 2012 21:36:11 GMT 1
And the third part?
I don't even have to look that up.
One of you guys better get this right the first time.
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Post by LouisXIV on Mar 29, 2012 9:35:15 GMT 1
Well, Colonel, I didn't have to look anything up to come up with the questions.
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Post by tedi88 on Mar 29, 2012 12:32:19 GMT 1
Well about the first part I think it's USS Enterprise (CV6).
Regarding part deux: Japanese aircraft carriers converted were Kaga and Akagi. US had Saratoga and Langley converted from Lexington class Battle Cruiser #3 and USS Jupiter (AC-3) respectively. Btw, Japs conversions were from Tosa-class battleships and Amagi-class battlecruiser respectively. Both Conversions were because of Washington Naval Treaty.
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Post by LouisXIV on Mar 29, 2012 13:57:16 GMT 1
Not quite right. The Saratoga and Lexington were the only U.S. carriers started as something else (battlecruisers) but completed as carriers. The Ranger and Langley were rebuilt as carriers after being put into use.
I was hoping you might also mention that the Kaga was only built as a fleet carrier after the Akagi's sister Amagi was destroyed by an earthquake. Since Kaga was a battleship and not a battlecruiser she was about 3 knots slower than her half-sister.
Close enough, tedi88. Do you have any questions?
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Post by tedi88 on Mar 29, 2012 15:52:49 GMT 1
Well I read about Amagi. ;D Didn't know if it was relevant so i didn't included that peculiar piece of information. Now regarding questions:  I'm interested in: what operation (was it successful) when and where? |
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Post by Major Pain on Mar 29, 2012 16:19:43 GMT 1
In March No. 2 Commando plus demolition experts from Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 12 Commandos took part in Operation Chariot the St Nazaire Raid. The destroyer HMS Campbeltown had 24 Mark VII depth-charges (4 1/4 tons) cemented below decks behind the forward gun support. Accompanied by 18 smaller ships, the Campbeltown sailed into port where she was rammed directly into the Normandie dock gates. The Commandos engaged the German forces and destroyed the dock facilities. Eight hours later, delayed-action fuses set off the explosives in the Campbeltown which wrecked the dock gates and killed some 360 Germans and French. A total of 611 soldiers and sailors took part in Chariot; 169 were killed and 200 (most wounded) taken prisoner. Only 242 returned immediately. Of the 241 Commandos who took part 64 were posted as killed or missing and 109 captured. Among participants in the raid two commandos Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Charles Newman and Sergeant Thomas Durrant together with three members of the Royal Navy were awarded the Victoria Cross, while 80 others received decorations for gallantry. Photo: 28 March, 1942. Note: There are several images of these two British Commandos taken prisoner. They were marched through the center of the area for propaganda and moral purposes.   Yes... it was successful... |
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Post by fallschirmjager on Mar 29, 2012 21:36:10 GMT 1
So what the only one U.S. aircraft carrier that survived the whole war?
I can't see answer to this question anywhere! Anyone could kindly shed a light to it please?
FJ
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Post by tedi88 on Mar 29, 2012 22:47:28 GMT 1
Correct Major. You can proceed.
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Post by Major Pain on Mar 29, 2012 23:57:01 GMT 1
Ok... I'm staying on the water for another...
Which US Carrier was the most heavily damaged and still survived WW2?
And...
What was Gary Cooper's relationship to it?
For those that don't know who Gary Cooper is... he protrayed Sgt York in the movie of the same name.
Enough hints...
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Post by LouisXIV on Mar 30, 2012 2:18:01 GMT 1
My guess would be the USS Franklyn one of the Essex class. I know she made it home under her own power but was so badly damaged so close to the end of the war that the powers that be decided it was not worth the expense and effort to rebuild her as a fleet carrier.
That reminds me of a cute story involving one of the Essex class carriers. During the invasion of Okinawa the British made a full task force available in the pacific, including 4 of their most recent fleet carriers. The US, of course, produced 4 task forces, each of greater size.
Before the invasion took place, while anchored at Ulithi, the British sailors took a lot of ribbing from their American counterparts. The Americans thought it was terribly funny that, despite the fact that the British carriers were almost as large as the US ones, they could only take an air group of about half the size. This was because they were designed for use in the Mediterranean, where land-based aircraft are always a short flight away. Their flight decks and hangar decks were concrete sandwiched between steel. All that armour restricted the number of aircraft that could be stored and serviced in the hangar deck and service deck. The US flight decks were just thick wooden beams laid crosswise.
On the first day of operations against Okinawa, a whole flight of kamikazis came out to greet the Allied fleet. One of them hit one of the Essex class carriers right in the middle of the flight deck right beside the bridge structure. Most of the flight deck was smashed and burnt, and several aircraft in the hangar deck went up in flames. The carrier made for Ulithi, and ended up going back to Pearl Harbor for a major refit.
At almost the same time one of the British carriers was hit by a kamikaze in almost exactly the same place. The British crew hosed the burning wreck down, bulldozed it off the deck, and were back in full operation a half an hour later. They repainted part of the flight deck overnight and looked like new the next morning.
Apparently word of this got around the US fleet and the British sailors were never kidded on this subject again.
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Post by Major Pain on Mar 30, 2012 2:44:14 GMT 1
USS Franklin (CV-13) is correct.
Little known fact: The day that the Franklin got hit, The Black Sheep Squadron was on board. Half perished.
Sooooooo..... how does good old Gary fit in?
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Post by fallschirmjager on Mar 30, 2012 21:22:31 GMT 1
Thanks Nephilim, but the answer covers two aircraft carriers . . . ..
FJ
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