Ship Trivia Quiz

During World War 2 seven carriers received Presidential Unit Citations. Besides Enterprise, which other CV's won this award during the war?

EDIT: "won" is a poor choice of words for a medal of valor. Let's stick with "received".

My answer depends on whether you are counting CVLs as CVs.

I found seven (eight if you include Enterprise):

CV-9 Essex

CV-10 Yorktown

CV-12 Hornet

CV-16 Lexington

CV-17 Bunker Hill

CVL-28 Cabot

CVL-30 San Jacinto

You need to read the question again. It is carefully worded.

USS BELLEAU WOOD   (CV-24\CVL24)

Essex, Yorktown, Hornet, Lexington and Bunker Hill, plus non CV's Belleau Wood, Cabot, San Jacinto received PUC's after the war.

OK, we'll step down a little in size:

St. Lo CVE-63

White Plains  CVE-66

Kalinin Bay CVE-68

Fanshaw Bay CVE-70

Kitkun Bay  CVE-71

Gambier Bay CVE-73

They all took part in the Battle off Samar as Taffy 3.

Yes- the answer to the question is:

NO other CV won a PUC during the war. The other six carriers were CVE's in "Taffy 3" along with other ships, for taking on Japanese battleships at the battle of Leyte gulf in 1944. Gambier Bay and St. Lo were sunk. Stay in touch, my CVE model is on the "ways".

Over to you Subfixer.

Thanks, Bondo, for asking a question that didn't require a trip to the Arcane Library of Obscure Tomes in order to answer it. Tricky somebody you are, just the same.

OK,

  What CV came to the rescue after Wasp was sunk and Enterprise taken out of action in the Battle of Santa Cruz that left Saratoga alone in the Pacific?

hms victorious aka uss robin.

You are correct ddp59, the next question is yours.

Here is a link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victorious_(R38)

Here is Saratoga  and Victorious (USS Robin) Noumea New Caledonia, in 1943.

was the Indomitable painted in USN colors during her sojourn with the USN?

No, because the country that owned her still had a notion she was theirs...

what major(?) difference is there between clc-1 northampton & her baltimore ship sisters besides guns & superstructure?

Other than they're being two entirely different classes of ships? Give us something to go on here.

Northampton's main deck was one deck higher than the CAs.

(All in all, that's really an oxymoron, since the Main deck is always the highest full length deck.  But you know what I mean - there was one more level below the main deck on Northampton than on the others)

One was a communications ship

surface line has it right. your turn.

Break 1-9;  surfaceline, ya got yer ears on?

This a nudge to Surfaceline.

I think it is time for a toss-up. First one to respond gets to ask the next question.  Sorry Surfaceline.

Since Surfaceline wont respond I will ask the next question. 

part:1 What was the fate of the sister ship of the Gneisenau?

part:2 What's the name of the sister ship of the Gneisenau?

1 sunk by hms duke of york  http://www.scharnhorst-class.dk/scharnhorst/history/scharnostfront.html

2 Scharnhorst

congrats ddp59 you got that right!

You chance to ask your question.

Angus

after ww2, what was the nevada used for & what happened to her?

She was utilized as a target ship for the Bikini atomic bomb tests. After surviving that, she was towed to Pearl Harbor, examined, then used as a gunnery target by the Iowa.  After surviving that, she was finally sunk by an aerial torpedo.

correct.

What was the name of Japan's first steam powered screw driven warship?

The anser to that one is the Kanrin Maru she was the Japanise first sail and screw driven ship.

Angus

You've got it, celt.

Here she is in 1855:

O.K here it is!

Witch carrier was it that torpedo squadron 8 under John Waldrons comand atacked the Japinse force atacking the midway atoll?