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Discussion in 'Warfare / Military' started by DA60, Feb 28, 2012.

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  1. DA60

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    Well done - where did you get these numbers from?
     
    DA60, Mar 10, 2012
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    Second part was Wikipedia- the other part I don't still have up- took me 10 minutes or so to find.....why? I don't know....I got curious.
     
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    I am going to jump into line with another question:

    Name the production U.S. aircraft armed with 20 mm cannon.

    I am not including the Hellcat.

    I am looking primarily for 2- bonues points if you get 4
     
    SFJEFF, Mar 10, 2012
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    P-61 Black Widow
    B-29 Superfortress (tail turret)
    P-38 Lightning
    Tigercat (don't recall the number - A7U?)?
     
    DA60, Mar 10, 2012
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    Fascinating- was shooting for the P-61 and the P-38.

    I hadn't thought about the Tigercat- saw one of those fly way, way back in the 70's as a air tanker- but don't think they were operational in WW2.

    The 20 mm on the B-29 was un-expected, and not what I was thinking of- the other two flew operationally in WW2 but both were lesser known varients.
     
    SFJEFF, Mar 11, 2012
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    What were the other two?

    A-20?
    Don't know if it had cannon.

    Good question you came up with.
     
    DA60, Mar 11, 2012
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    A B-25 variant mounted a 75mm cannon in the nose. It was the largest gun carried by allied aircraft.
     
    Jason Bourne, Mar 11, 2012
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    ..........
     
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    You got me on this one.
     
    DA60, Mar 11, 2012
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    Yeah....I don't know that one either...and feeling to lazy to try to look it up...excellent question though.
     
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    Stumbled across it when I was looking at the Beaufighter, which took me to the P-61 and this tidbit in Wikipedia:

    The P-61 therefore became one of the few U.S.-designed fighter aircraft to have 20 mm (.79 in) cannons as factory-standard in World War II. Others were the P-38 Lightning, the F4U-1C (a limited-production Corsair sub-variant), and the A-36 Apache dive-bomber (an early form of the P-51 Mustang). While some F6F Hellcats and repossessed British lend-lease P-39 Airacobras (renamed P-400) were also fitted with 20 mm (.79 in) cannons, it was not standard practice.

    Which I found interesting. Always thought it interesting that the U.S. moved from .30 calibers to .50 calibers sooner than most, but then stayed with the .50 when everyone else was moving to 20 mm or even 30 mm.
     
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    Hint: the last Pearl Harbor veteran sunk in combat was an American cruiser.
     
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    Helena??..
     
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    USS Northampton?
     
    Albert Di Salvo, Mar 11, 2012
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    Was the Indianapolis at Pearl Harbor on dec. 7/41?
     
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    No...........
     
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    Then I'll stick with Helena.
     
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    No. She was home ported at Pearl but she was on a training cruise on 07 December 1941.
     
    Jason Bourne, Mar 12, 2012
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    Thanks for the info.
     
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    Not the Helena...though the same ship type (CL).
     
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    I think I can speak for this thread by saying that we give up.

    Which ship is it?
     
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    USS Phoenix. She was commissioned at Philly in 1938, served most of the war in the South Pacific with the 7th Fleet, bombarding in support of many island invasions. She was part of Admiral Ohlendorf's fleet at Surigao Strait, and supported the invasions of Bataan and Corregidor. She was enroute to Pearl for an overhaul when Japan surrendered. She was decommissioned & mothballed July 3, 1946, and was anchored at Philadelphia from then until April 9, 1951.

    That day, she was sold, along with sister ship USS Boise, to Argentina. Boise was renamed Nueve de Julio, Phoenix was renamed 17 de Octubre. After the 1955 coup, she was renamed General Belgrano. Boise/Nueve de Julio, which had suffered severe damage at Cape Esperance that did nothing good for her structure, was scrapped in 1979. Belgrano, which had been modernized with anti-ship and surfece-to-air missiles, as well as more modern radar & anti-aircraft autocannon, remained in commission.

    May 2, 1982, she was stalked & sunk off Burdwood Bank by two torpedoes fired by submarine HMS Conquerer.
     
    Jarlaxle, Mar 12, 2012
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    Wow. Is there anything you don't know? Ask another question please.
     
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    What US submarine ended its brief (8 month) but spectacularly-sucessful career when it was sunk by one of its own malfunctioning torpedoes?

    And I'm full of random bits of information. I may need to defragment my brain.

    (And I didn't know ALL of that...I knew the Phoenix was at Pearl, knew she was sold to Argentina & sunk in the Falkland War. I filled in the rest through Google, mostly from Wiki.)
     
    Jarlaxle, Mar 12, 2012
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    I know about Swede Momsen so I know the answer to this question. USS Tang. Is that correct?
     
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