What U-Boat sank the British Carrier HMS Eagle, and was itself later sunk by the USS Woolsey and the USS Trippe?
Military Daily Trivia Challenge
1. What was the only U.S. aircraft carrier -- after being torpedoed by a German U-Boat near the Azores on May 28, 1944 -- to be sunk in the Atlantic?
USS Hancock
USS Block Island
USS Franklin
USS Bennington
USS Randolph
2. What destroyer -- later immortalized in a Woodie Guthrie song -- was the first U.S. Navy ship to be sunk in the Atlantic on October 31, 1941?
USS Houston
USS Wasp
USS Helena
USS Bunker Hill
USS Reuben James
3. What U-Boat sank the British Carrier HMS Eagle, and was itself later sunk by the USS Woolsey and the USS Trippe?
U-47
U-73
U-107
U-156
U-196
Comments
Q #3's answer is U73.
I stand corrected, thank you Jim, must have mis-bolded
Posted by: Jim Smith | November 7, 2009 10:18 AM