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Jameson

Question #12 [Correct answer by EvilKobra]

What WW2 vessel took out a tank on shore with a torpedo?  Shocked


[edit by N.D.: You can post only one answer each]
NeuralDream

If you want, it can be considered official olympic quiz question. If it's difficult enough and not easily googlable, I'll move it there.
Jameson

Sounds good to me. I'll PM you with the source.
Jesse_James

This question is driving me nuts.

I NEED TO KNOW NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jameson

Mwahahahaha!
Jameson

People have PM'd me asking if this is some sort of trick question; It is not. A vessel actually took out a tank on land with a torpedo.
The Mighty A

woo
The Aquila

I have no clue.  But I would like to hear about it.
Richter von Manthofen

DD/DE during the South Italy Campaign - Salerno maybe...

Just a wild guess Wink
Jameson

A Hint: RvM is at least sailing in the correct Sea.  Wink
EvilKobra

That would've been HMS Safari then, under Cdr Ben Bryant.

Osprey's "British Submarines 1939-1945", page 47.
Cmdr_Clint

EvilKobra wrote:
That would've been HMS Safari then, under Cdr Ben Bryant.

Osprey's "British Submarines 1939-1945", page 47.


I think you found it Smile

"An interesting aside is that Cdr Bryant once deliberately set a torpedo to run shallow, and hit a German tank unloading on a beach in North Africa!"

http://www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/a...s.pl?id=6086&sc=1023&ac=d
NeuralDream

Yup, EK got it.
f6f5hellcat

This is correct, this scenerio even made it into a movie. Carry Grant spoted a IJN oil tanker and sank a truck! Sea movie pink submarine. Well worth watching if for no other reason then that!
USS Virginia BB 13

f6f5hellcat wrote:
This is correct, this scenerio even made it into a movie. Carry Grant spoted a IJN oil tanker and sank a truck! Sea movie pink submarine. Well worth watching if for no other reason then that!

The movie is "Father Goose".
Jaws

Correction: The Movie was "Operation Petticoat" with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. "Father Goose" was the movie where Cary Grant played a drunken American boat captain who was tricked into becoming Austrialian Coastwatcher by Leslie Howard. Both were a riot!!!
seisen

Jaws wrote:
Correction: The Movie was "Operation Petticoat" with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. "Father Goose" was the movie where Cary Grant played a drunken American boat captain who was tricked into becoming Austrialian Coastwatcher by Leslie Howard. Both were a riot!!!


Trevor Howard.  Great movies!

Sorry Jaws, couldnt resist. blow up
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