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January 21st, 2008, 02:17 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
Okay, Earl. Go out to websites and find the pics.
What is this ship that the crew is abandoning?
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January 21st, 2008, 02:56 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
That is the Hornet. She is the only carrier of that class to carry a "sploches" camoflauge pattern (there was not official measure for that camoflauge). Her pattern was a variation of the Measure 8 camoflauge she was initially painted in after commissioning.
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January 21st, 2008, 03:54 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
Correct Terry.
your thread.
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January 22nd, 2008, 06:41 PM
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Have to pass until I fix the computer at home. Have a good one but no way to put it up right now.
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January 22nd, 2008, 07:00 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
anyone else want to take Terry's turn?
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January 22nd, 2008, 10:55 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
May I take a turn?
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January 22nd, 2008, 11:31 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
USS Ommaney Bay?
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January 23rd, 2008, 12:12 AM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
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USS Ommaney Bay?
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January 23rd, 2008, 12:19 AM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
Can't remember what ship your father was on, is it that one?
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January 23rd, 2008, 12:26 AM
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Can't remember what ship your father was on, is it that one?
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Yep, but the pic is from before he embarked on her.
Extra credit. What types are the planes on the deck?
Still need the name of the ship.
No fair looking at my past posts.
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January 23rd, 2008, 12:32 AM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
I think I remember the ship's name.
Aircraft A20s, P-47s, B-25s and can tell what the single engine craft lining the port side of the deck are. Will have to look closer, almost look like P-40s.
Edit---looks like a P-38 squeezed in there too.
Edit again. Those are also A-20s I thought were B-25s at the stern.
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January 23rd, 2008, 12:53 AM
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The Fanshaw Bay?
Pretty crammed with aircraft, nice pic.
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January 23rd, 2008, 01:06 AM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
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Bingo. CVE 70. There are more of her at bosamar.com. I have many more pics that were my dad's.
I know of at least 2 trips she made to Australia with a load of planes, one of which was entirely P-38s. I have pics of that load. Of course she was present at the Battle off Samar, when Taffy 3 went toe-to-toe with Kurita. Kurita blinked.
BTW, the Fanny Bee was the only flat-top, big or small, that garnered TWO Presidential Unit Citations, in addtion to another one from the president of the Phillipines. I'll post some more info on her when I get time.
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
This one may be a little tougher:
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January 23rd, 2008, 01:27 AM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
The Soviet battleship Marat. You can easily tell from the superstructure forward in details and from the boom arrangement on the main mast. Her sisters the Oktyabrskaya Revolutisya and Parizhskaya Kommuna have much heavier cranes / booms on the main mast than the Marat. Also, with such a good clear picture it is probably one of Marat at the coronation of King George VI in May 1937.
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January 23rd, 2008, 01:49 AM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
The Marat is the ship that Hans-Uhlrich Rudel sank with his Stuka.
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January 23rd, 2008, 08:19 AM
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Too easy, well done T.A. Actually sh is docked in Poland.
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February 3rd, 2008, 08:26 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
Okay, I'm picking up the thread.
What is this ship?
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February 3rd, 2008, 09:07 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
I think its of the Minas Gerais Class Battleships from Brazil,
I do believe its the Sao Paulo,
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February 3rd, 2008, 09:36 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
No, It saw action in the early days of the war in the ETO for one of the combatants there.
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February 3rd, 2008, 11:18 PM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
Darn! I thought I had it.
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February 4th, 2008, 12:00 AM
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Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2
pre-dreadnought, Deutschland class, either Deutschland, Pommern, Hannover, and most probably, Schleswig-Holstein.
She did open fire on Danzig, Poland.
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