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11-03-2007, 05:03 AM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer
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 | Wekly Quiz Number 16 - The Big Ships Quiz Number 16 Mostly easy. Geoff, question 9 has a QDR of 3 - for you it is a 1. Cheers everybody, Gerry |
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11-03-2007, 05:23 AM
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| I Like Tanks  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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11-03-2007, 07:06 AM
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| Legendary Member  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Your Score is: 90% - You are near the top of the ladder. Guessed wrong on the Soviet vessel.
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 27-04-2007 at 06:57 AM. |
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12-03-2007, 01:54 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: House of Bedfords, Perth, Western Australia
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 | 80%. Guessed the Soviet ship wrong and for some bizarre reason selected Repulse which I am still shaking my head over!
__________________ Cheers Andy Apres moi le deluge But there are deeds that should not pass away....And names that must not wither - Byron HMAS Sydney II - lost with all hands and waiting to be found |
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12-03-2007, 03:21 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NW Kent, England
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| 100% - but had to look up the Soviet vessel, and one or two others were informed guesses
__________________ for heathen heart that puts its trust in reeking tube and iron shard all valiant dust that builds on dust and guarding, calls not thee to guard thy mercy on thy people, Lord (Kipling) |
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12-03-2007, 11:32 AM
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| Pog mo thon   Join Date: Apr 2004
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__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian | |
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26-04-2007, 05:00 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hampshire
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__________________ In memory of 1891923 Sgt Albert George Edward Mount RAFVR, 115 Squadron Bomber Command, whose Lancaster was shot down on 8th June 1944 over Montchauvet, Yvelines. |
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27-04-2007, 06:59 AM
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| Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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