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January 17th, 2008, 08:07 PM
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Re: WWII Forums Quiz Part VII
Shucks, missed it by that much, Earl!
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January 17th, 2008, 08:12 PM
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Do unto others........
I took a "short-cut" on the way home today, saved that 30 seconds !
Almost too easy...wasn't it ?
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January 17th, 2008, 08:14 PM
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yup USS Enterprise. The second greatest ship to ever fly the American Flag
Your turn Skunk
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January 17th, 2008, 08:20 PM
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Another math question..."sorry scarface"
What number is the difference between the number of "Pilots" trained by the USAAF in World War II, and the number who "Washed Out" ?
hint
193,440 "passed" their training.
within a thousand...good enough
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January 18th, 2008, 12:36 PM
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_2_,0_0 washed out,
_9,4_0 is the number. 
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January 18th, 2008, 01:53 PM
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i've not been able to find anything, Earl.
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January 18th, 2008, 03:56 PM
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Does the wash out number include those killed during training?
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My source was not that specific as to what it all encompassed, I assume (I know what that divides into), just the ones who got an "F" in class....and became waist gunners, tail gunners, radio operators, flight engineers, and navigators (that is "if" any of those required .... less than the pilot seat did)
193,440 dun gadeated...
124,000 wuz all worshed up...
an the Majik nummer iz
69, 440
anyone.....take it away ! 
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January 19th, 2008, 03:01 AM
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Another math question..."sorry scarface"
What number is the difference between the number of "Pilots" trained by the USAAF in World War II, and the number who "Washed Out" ?
hint
193,440 "passed" their training.
within a thousand...good enough
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Dang it!.... now cut that out....
NO MORE MATH QUESTIONS!!!!
(.....please!)
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Okay.... I'll dive in.
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Sarah Barney Belcher (b. 6/26/1771 - Taunton, Mass, USA; died 10/14/1867 Chicopee Falls, Mass, USA)
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What is this woman's amazing connection to World War II?
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January 19th, 2008, 10:16 AM
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Doug MacArthur's Great Grandmother
Franklin D. & Winston's Great aunt, making
Douglas MacArthur the 8th cousin of Winston Churchill &
the 6th cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt once removed.
Whatever that means, that sure is alot of addin n subtrakin...math!
From "larry" the cable guy....
A friend came to me all distraught cause he said he had sex with his third cousin, I told him if it bothered him so much, quit countin.
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dang it, Skonk.... how do you KNOW all this stuff?!!!
you got it ... Roosevelt, Churchill and MacArthur were all (distantly) related.
Your go, sir!
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Ja Gut !
A (another) German secret weapon, used successfully once/one time/one engagement/battle (that I know of), before Allied counter-measures negated it's advantage. All that R&D down the drain again.
First appeared in mid 1943.
Can you name it ? (bonus points for the counter measure)
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hint?
In the "Atlantic"
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It's most vaunted success came against Convoy HX 229, by Group Leuthen.
When tried again against SC 143, Group Schlieffen got "Spanked".
Said to be, "The last dying struggle of a caged tiger".
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The acoustic torpedo?
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Yes indeed, the Zaunkonig torpedo, which was designed to home on to the precise pitch of the sounds generated by an escort vessel's propellers.
After months of uneventful convoy passage across the Atlantic the escorts were eager for the fray but they did not at first appreciate that they were the principle targets of the attack.
3 escorts and 6 merchantmen destroyed from a convoy of 66 vessels, protected by a powerful combined escort of 15 warships, for a loss of 3 U-Boats.
A counter-measure called "Foxer" was a pair of noisemakers towed astern of an escort, which negated future lopsided success's.
Your go.
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Three days past so I’m just going too jump on in here.
Which Marine Pilot and MOH recipient died while leading the USN’s first ever nightime fighter attack from an aircraft carrier
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Butch O'Hare
They named a little, out of the way airport after him.
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