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The former Argentinian BattleCruiser General Belgrano sunk during the Falklands War, was a former US world war 2 cruiser and a survivor of the Pearl Harbor Attack.
What was the name of the ship before she was sold to Argentina?
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USS Phoenix (CL-46) [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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AHHH..You gotta be quick around here...yeah TA's right for sure the Phoenix, thats why I always remember it. The Phoenix bird rises from the ashes, in this instance, it was ironic that it did so at Pearl only to be sunk in the Falklands by an Exocet Missile I believe it was...
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You got it TA [img]smile.gif[/img]
Panzerknacker The Phoenix was virtually untouched at Pearl Harbor.
http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/trivia1.html
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I will keep the theme naval again.
During WWI and WWII there were shortages of steel and iron. In WWI they made some cargo ships out of cement. In WWII they experimented with making ships out of wood chips and what other item ?
Hints; The allies tried this and it would not work in the Pacific theater. Prototypes were made in Canada.
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ICE!
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Styrofoam? 
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Trust me Red Dog, it was Ice. THe brits had this crazy idea to make an aircraft carrier out of Ice.
Besides, i dont believe styrofoam had even been invented.
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I didnt know about the air carrier idea, but there were tries for destroyers in the North Atlantic where the hull was ice I think......
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Yeah I was going to guess ice, but you took it  So I just made up with a wild guess
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You got it GE, over to you. [img]graemlins/rk.gif[/img]
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Name the Top three Members of VMF 214 (Marine Fighting Squardon) in numbers of enemy aircraft shot down.
Thats name, and number of ac shot down
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John Bolt 6
Chris Magee 9
Greg Boyington 22 or 28 or some other number depending if you count his Flying Tiger kills and how many kills he had during his tenure as a Flying Tiger. I have seen several different numbers. I don't think he left them on good terms so you get different stories.
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Sry Ta, not quite, u have Boyington And Magee right, but there were a few in between Magee and the next one you listed.
Btw, im one of those few believers that think that Boyington really did get 28 [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Indeed it's ironnic, but General Belgrano was sunk by HMS Conqueror, a nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy with a torpedo. The first ship to be sunk by a submarine attack since WWII. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Thanks for clearing that up Fried.
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I was just reading about this squadron, think I got it here.......
Greg Boyington 22 or 28
Chris Magee 9
Bob Case 8
Others
Paul Mullen 6.5 kills
Bob McClurg 7
Good thing I read up on carrier based squadrons eh.
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How can you kill 6.5 men?
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The question was about aircraft, not men. I fire at a 'plane, you fire at the same 'plane, we both hit it, down it goes....
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