Comments on: Australian-Made Torpedo Sinks US Warship: War Games - With Video

By: Kurt(the infidel)

Kurt(the infidel) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:57:02 +0000

them damn Australians! this means war!

just kidding. looks like the torpedo does its job very well. wonder if we’ll ever get the chance to use it on a worthwhile navy. sure wont help against iranian speedboats

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:00:44 +0000

with the Iranian speed boats you don’t need anything bigger than a drill to sink them. Just send in the SEALS to drill holes into their little rowboats and their navy’s incapacitated. ROFL

By: Q_Mech

Q_Mech — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:11:10 +0000

Fun Jolly Trivia Time: What was the only WWII US warship to be sunk by the British?

By: deathstar

deathstar — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:12:16 +0000

The Iranian navy has a handfull of bigger ships but Im not sure they would survive US airpower long enough for the subs to get them.

By: Unbreakable

Unbreakable — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:44:35 +0000

Q_Mech

The Argentine Navy ship General Belgrano during the Falklands War.

By: T-Bagg(aka T-Badd)

T-Bagg(aka T-Badd) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:46:45 +0000

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh307/T-BaggsPhotos/poster75178175gunboat.jpg?t=1217025968

By: Zachary

Zachary — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:10:04 +0000

Well I’ll be damned. They actually did make the Collins Class useful.

By: Q_Mech

Q_Mech — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:43:54 +0000

Unbreakable: NICE! You know no one I’ve met has ever answered that one correctly? The General Belgrano was previously the USS Phoenix. It was present at the Pearl Harbor attack and served through the entire war. It was sold to the Argentines afterwards, and the rest is history.

It is a wee bit of a trick question, I’ll admit.

By: Unbreakable

Unbreakable — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:52:39 +0000

Q_Mech

Correct on all counts. I am something of a student of history.

Who was the only non-British citizen to earn the Victoria Cross and where did he earn it?

By: Q_Mech

Q_Mech — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:12:59 +0000

Unbreakable, I understand that one was awarded to the Unknown Soldier here in the US. That’s the one I had heard about before. I just looked it up, though, and one website (http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/medals/vc/default.html) claims that, “The Cross has been granted to 13 persons of non-British origin, including three Danes, a German, a Swiss, a Belgian and one Ukrainian.”

Sounds like a story in there somewheres.

By: Unbreakable

Unbreakable — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:32:13 +0000

I was under the impression only one was awarded; at the battle of Rorke’s Drift. I must’ve read wrong, but an interesting story nonetheless.

“Worthy of note is Corporal Christian Ferdinand Schiess, the only non-British or Commonwealth VC winner, who died in poverty five years later on a ship to England and was buried at sea. His only possession was his Victoria Cross, which is now on display in the Regimental Museum beside others that were awarded for Rorke’s Drift.”

By: rightangle

rightangle — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:33:33 +0000

Q/A

Can you name the only British battleship sunk by the US in WWII?

Ans. Trick question. The Imperial Japanese Navy in 1912 had purchased the Kongo from the British shipbuilder Vickers. During WWII it had participated in battles at Midway and Leyte Gulf and others. On Nov. 21, 1944 the kongo was hit and sunk by torpedoes from the submarine USS Sealion II. It was the only Japanese battleship sunk by a submarine and the last battleship by a sub.