I Am bored

[Parche]

Ask me anything about airplanes, or WWII Pacific
and I will give you an answer Jeopardy!!





:woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:
:patriot:

[LSK]

1. what happened on June 27, 1944??

:shrug:

[Parche]

5. Saipan Was Secured

Either that, or wasnt that the day that Bush Sr was shot down, and left his crew to perish in the
Avenger, and the USS Finback picked him up , near Chi Chi Jima?

:shrug: :hi:

[LSK]

10. I don't know, I picked the date out of thin air

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

2. why doesn't Jetblue fly to IAH? I'm looking for flights and i do not want to fly

in to Hobby.

[Parche]

7. from where?

what dates?

[AlCzervik]

8. smf july 11th through the 15th.

[Parche]

12. Frontier

PRICING OPTION 2 TOTAL AMOUNT 355.88USD
ADT TAX INCLUDED
1 F9 226 Q 11JUL SMFDEN 1043A 159P 319 Q10NR9
2 F9 146 Q 11JUL DENIAH 320P 643P 319 Q10NR9
3 F9 147 G 15JUL IAHDEN 723P 855P 319 G21QNR9
4 F9 221 G 15JUL DENSMF 935P 1100P 319 G21QNR9
>FS02· >FS*2· >FQN2· >MORE*2·


$356 roundtrip

[AlCzervik]

17. is that stopping in Denver first?

i found a round trip direct at Continental for $454 round trip, i'm waiting to hear back from friends on the dates, i really want to go direct.

[Parche]

20. yes change in denver with that sked above

:woohoo: :hi:

[taterguy]

3. How long did it take the Enola Gay to get to Nagasaki?

[Parche]

6. enola gay bombed hiroshima

bocks car went to kokura, and eventually Nagasaki

and over 5 hours at least

:hi:

[taterguy]

9. What kind of worthless answer is that?

I know it's a long way to Japan from the Marianas but I never knew exactly how long.

And what are the odds that I would be listening to the song "Gonna Put My Face On a Nuclear Bomb" at the exact moment that I typed this message?

[Parche]

11. Its over 1400 miles

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke:


USS Indianapolis carried some of the parts to the atomic bomb to Tinian
and was sunk by 2 torpedoes 31July 1945 Capt Mcvey

[taterguy]

13. So how long would it take a B-29 to fly that distance?

[Parche]

14. 6hours

one-way

i remember they were over the target around 8am:?

[4_Legs_Good]

4. How about WW II Mediterranean?

How did Indiana Jones jump on that sub and then stay on it while they went to the island to open the Ark? Did he sneak inside? Did they not submerge? I seem to remember one of them turning this thing that seemed to be something that one would turn to submerge a sub.



David

[Bucky]

15. How long did it take the Soviets to mop up the Japanese army in Manchuria?

And what sort of planes did the US Navy launch off of its carriers? Weren't the B-29s just used by the Army Air Force?

[Parche]

16. navy planes

TBD Devastators, SBD Dauntless, F4F Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, Corsairs, Helldivers,

1st question i dont know....................

[lost-in-nj]

18. WHY???

:shrug:


:hug:


lost

[Parche]

19. because gorn

did you know 4June 1942 battle of midway
we sank the Japanese carriers Kaga, Akagi, Hiryu, Soryu, and the heavy cruise Mikuma
mostly with SBD's from the our carrier USS Enterprise CV-6, the Yorktown SBD's sank the Soryu,
Hornet SBD's missed altogether....................


a little history lesson for gorn


:hi:

:hug:

found history gorn lesson