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Post subject: Question #12 [Correct answer by EvilKobra]
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What WW2 vessel took out a tank on shore with a torpedo? 
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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.
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This question is driving me nuts.
I NEED TO KNOW NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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.
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The Aquila
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DD/DE during the South Italy Campaign - Salerno maybe...
Just a wild guess 
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| Fri May 16, 2008 8:49 am |
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That would've been HMS Safari then, under Cdr Ben Bryant.
Osprey's "British Submarines 1939-1945", page 47.
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| 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 
"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
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Yup, EK got it.
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| 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! |
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| 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".
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| 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!!! |
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| 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. 
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