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January 14th, 2003, 05:54 AM
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Sorry...Pvt Helmut Romer, not Rover....
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January 14th, 2003, 06:13 PM
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Hold until relieved.....
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Well done, urqh:
Your turn [img]smile.gif[/img]
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January 14th, 2003, 07:16 PM
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Thanks Redcoat, think once anyone has heard of Pegasus Bridge story it is hard to foget..
Far east, the leader of the "axis" Indian National Army..?
Name the guy?
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January 14th, 2003, 07:17 PM
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Well that will confuse...sorry should say the leader of the Indian Nationalist army...
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January 15th, 2003, 06:31 AM
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G'day Urgh
Do you mean Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Nice story of him on
http://axis101.bizland.com/IndianStamps.htm
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January 15th, 2003, 07:59 AM
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Yup, Im going to have to stop thinking of first thing that comes into my head on these questions.
You lot are past this lot.
Over to you mate..
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January 15th, 2003, 10:53 AM
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Thanx Guys!
That´s a great trick question answer! Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Or just keep chanting the name to a rhythm at work... And the friends will keep at a further distance than before...
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January 15th, 2003, 12:31 PM
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OK
Why didn't B.L.Montgomery get a Distinguished Service Cross?
Do your worst.
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This is obviously a trick question & I'm hopeless with awards so let's put my foot in it first....
I thought the DSC was an American medal, issued to personnel serving in the US Army for 'distinguished acts of extraordinary heroism'? If so, can't see any of that fitting Monty.... 
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January 15th, 2003, 04:26 PM
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Nope Martin
The DSC is British.
Good Hunting
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January 15th, 2003, 04:44 PM
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Because he wasnt in the navy???
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January 15th, 2003, 04:45 PM
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Because he wasnt in the navy???
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January 15th, 2003, 04:57 PM
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That's it Urgh
(both times)
It is also an American Award, but the British used this one for the Navy and is comparable with the Military Cross for the Army and Distinguishe Flying Cross for the RAF.
Your turn Urgh
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January 15th, 2003, 05:34 PM
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Yep, this stutter, everything comes out twice...
Had to look up the DSC, was news to me too.
OK, which British Royal was the cause of many Royal Navy deaths in October 1942, and why?
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January 15th, 2003, 08:54 PM
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OK, which British Royal was the cause of many Royal Navy deaths in October 1942, and why?
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Would the "Royal" be the liner "Queen Mary"
because on the 2nd October 1942 she accidentally rammed and sank the AA cruiser CURACOA with the loss of over 300 men off the coast of Ireland.
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Damn....Yep thats it. Over to you again then...
Sorry did I not ask the second part of the question....?
Next time Ill ask for the names of all the troops on the liner....
Your go.
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Who can name the submarine which holds the record for being the only submerged submarine to sink a submerged enemy submarine.
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I know im wrong but--ill throw them in just in case.
USS Bowfin?
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January 16th, 2003, 07:32 PM
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Hms Salmon sunk U36 in Norwegian waters 1940? Dont know if they were both submerged?
Hms Triton did a good one in September 39, Sunk Hms Oxley...
Suppose they werent enemies though...not sure if they were submerged either..
Funny you doing this and Ive just picked up a book...Fatal Descisions first chapter deals with Submarines...
Ill have to have a better looksee...
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Hello folks [img]smile.gif[/img]
Answers to replies so far;
C. Evans
USS Bowfin is credited with sinking a Japanese frigate and 44 merchant ships, but no submarines
urgh;
U-36 and HMS Oxley were both on the surface when sunk ( or should that be, before they were sunk )
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This is NOT the right answer, but in trawling around the internet for the correct answer ( which I can't find !  ) I found out about the O-21 sinking the U-95 near Gibraltar.
Now, I never knew that a Dutch submarine sank a U-Boat, or even in fact that there were any Dutch submarines.
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SHOCK!!! HORROR!!!
Even the knowledgable Martin Bull learns something new everyday...
My go at the question, was it Wolfgang Luth's boat, U-181 sinking HMS Doris???
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What...??? we had an HMS Doris??? Blimey I bet the guys on that one had a lot of fights when they went into bars ashore....
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January 17th, 2003, 09:06 PM
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Thanks for the clarification Redcoat.
Ryan--I dont recall U 181 ever sinking another sub--I can check the Verlag book I have and see if there is any mention of a Doris--since I finally refound my Uboat book. I had thought it was long lost or in storage but--I looked at it in amazement yesterday.
FYI--there are only 7 U 181 vets still living including only one officer who was U 181s Engineering Officer. 
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I'm pretty sure it was Doris....or was it Floris???
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