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[houstonscott]

Who shot down the first Japanese aircraft at Pearl Harbor and was underway and at GQ with live ammo and ready when they showed up. Hint; not the Navy.

HS

 

[k0ua]

Who shot down the first Japanese aircraft at Pearl Harbor and was underway and at GQ with live ammo and ready when they showed up. Hint; not the Navy.

HS

Army air corps? Just guessing here.

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

Speaking of WWII

Who was Claus von Stauffenberg? What did he do on July 20th 1944? What Happened to him?

Didn't he try to assassinate ******?

 

[houstonscott]

On december 6th the USCGC Taney had failed their gunnery drills. So the next morning the CO had the ship out and underway in the channel at full GQ ready to conduct gunnery drills. Locked and loaded. It just so happened that's when the Japanese showed up. The CGC Taney was the last ship that was at Pearl that day to be decommissioned. Always Ready.

HS

 

[bcp]

After the war the US was flooded with cheap junk form Japan. Mostly toys. Now collector items. Japan tried to disguise their origion.
What did they do???

 

[k0ua]

Didn't he try to assassinate ******?

He and many other conspirators sure did on July 20 1944 by placing a bomb at the conference table at the "wolf's lair" and thinking that ****** was dead they tried to pull off a carefully planned coup that almost succeeded. but ultimately failed and by midnight he was dead with 3 others. Over the next few months over 7000 people were arrested, and over 5000 of them were executed, many in very grisly manners with film cameras rolling so ****** could enjoy their agonizing deaths. The point is not all German soldiers were as crazy as Der Fuehrer.

 

[k0ua]

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Ha.. I remember that now... named some town Usa.. so they could say "made in Usa" Clever :laughing:

 

[crash325]

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I didn't know it was on a map. Pretty neat.

Now what was the first motor cycle made in Japan???

 

[k0ua]

I didn't know it was on a map. Pretty neat.

Now what was the first motor cycle made in Japan???

Well I looked it up so I am out.

 

[farmgirl19]

I know NOTHING about motorcycles, but the first ones I remember hearing about as a kid, were Honda. So, I'll make a WAG and say Honda.