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August 5th, 2004, 11:32 PM
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A black shield w/top corner missing...man swinging a hammer?? American General Rose killed by someone in #507. 
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August 6th, 2004, 12:32 AM
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I will give ya that!
Its of a blacksmith hammering a sword.
Your turn StuG Lover! [img]tongue.gif[/img]  [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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August 6th, 2004, 07:26 PM
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Well another reason I should get some reading glasses...could'nt tell he was a blacksmith. Be back with a question in a bit. 
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August 7th, 2004, 12:01 AM
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OK, Pacific Theater question: Vice-Admiral Nagumo,after defeated at Midway...what was his fate?
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August 7th, 2004, 11:12 AM
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He was relieved of his command and put in charge of a small naval flotilla in the Marianas. He shot himself on Saipan just before the American invasion on July 1, 1944.
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August 7th, 2004, 05:23 PM
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Correct. Over to you TA 152.
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August 7th, 2004, 06:02 PM
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What aircraft built in the US and started in WWII is still used in Canada today to fight forest fires.
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The Lockheed P-2 Neptune. though it missed the war entering squadron service in 1946.
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Good try, but wrong plane and planet. Think REALLY BIG plane.
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B-25 Mitchell. Wild guess, seem to recall seeing it in a movie.
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Martin "Mars"??
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Known as "the three great sinkings", name the three German ships torpedoed by Russian sub.
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FrameT would this be in 1945 ? Wilhelm Gustloff, Goya and ? excuse the spelling.........
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August 9th, 2004, 09:02 AM
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Erich, you are 1 short. "3 sinkings".
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General von Steuben
There were several others with less than 1000 dead.
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Over to you KnightMove.
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August 9th, 2004, 10:38 PM
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not to overswhadow KM's correct answer but I have a listing of transport German ships sunk during 45...
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Thx Framert.
What was the name of the English captain who smashed major parts of the German fleet landing at Narvik with 5 destroyers, but lost his life in the battle?
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Both the German Commander, Commodore Bonte, and the British Commander, Captain Warburton-Lee, were killed in the battle.
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August 12th, 2004, 07:31 AM
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Correct, your turn.
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Who was the 'Father' of the 7th SS Freiwillengen Gebirsgjager Division 'Prinz Eugen'..?
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August 12th, 2004, 10:24 AM
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7th SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs Division "Prinz Eugen", the 7th SS Volunter Mountain Division, named after Prinz Eugen of Savoy-Carignan, one of the greatest military commanders of the Austrian Hapsburg Empire.
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August 12th, 2004, 12:18 PM
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Er, no... Sorry. I mean the first commander, nicknamed the 'Father' of the Division as he helped it its setting up...
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August 15th, 2004, 09:22 PM
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