JR is starting to look very smart when he decided to keep Rivera just one more year.

[PhillyB]

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

 

What do I win?

 

pie.

 

you have also hit on the double or nothing WWII trivia challenge! if you choose to accept the next question and get it right, you can keep your pie for the answer AND get a random pie on another unrelated post... but if you accept it and get it wrong, you get no pie, and you lose your pie for the last correct answer.

 

do you accept?

[BBQ&Beer]

the F6F outperforms both the F4F and the F2M though... the F2M and F6F have comparable durability (whereas the F4F is a freaking block of solid metal) but F6F can out-climb, out-turn, and outdive just about everything but a P-41. i'd take the F6F ten times out of ten

Understandable, I just like the fact that the performance is close but the plane is smaller.

[PhillyB]

Understandable, I just like the fact that the performance is close but the plane is smaller.

 

this thread is now much better than the OP and i also am tempted to go buy a cheap-ass joystick and find my old copy of combat flight simulator

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

Yamamoto also the name the space battleship of the clasic anime StarBlazers!

.....Named after Admrial Yamamoto's Battleship which was the flagship of the Japanese Navy.

[BBQ&Beer]

this thread is now much better than the OP and i also am tempted to go buy a cheap-ass joystick and find my old copy of combat flight simulator

Mine is already booted up, just waiting for my dom to go to sleep.

[PhillyB]

Mine is already booted up, just waiting for my dom to go to sleep.

 

1, 2, or 3?

[BBQ&Beer]

Yamamoto also the name the space battleship of the clasic anime StarBlazers!

.....Named after Admrial Yamamoto's Battleship which was the flagship of the Japanese Navy.

Actually she's the Yamoto. (I have an obsession with that show. Straight geekdom.)

[Marguide]

pie.

 

you have also hit on the double or nothing WWII trivia challenge! if you choose to accept the next question and get it right, you can keep your pie for the answer AND get a random pie on another unrelated post... but if you accept it and get it wrong, you get no pie, and you lose your pie for the last correct answer.

 

do you accept?

 

Of course. Bring it on bubba.

[BBQ&Beer]

1, 2, or 3?

3. The P51 is my poo.

[PhillyB]

Of course. Bring it on bubba.

 

the following naval battle took place during the latter stages of the war in the pacific theater of operations: during the first night of engagements several IJN heavy cruisers were downed by U.S. submarines, including the lead admiral's flagship. three days of intense fighting included a midnight gun battle between U.S. and IJN battleship lines (the closest thing to Plan Orange seen in WWII), extensive carrier-based strikes on IJN fleets that decimated the remainder of their carrier fleet, sunk the Musashi (sister ship of the Yamato, largest battleship in the world) and culminated in a group of exposed U.S. light carriers and destroyers holding off a massive fleet of IJN battleships and heavy cruisers at close range and inexplicably causing the Japanese admiral to turn back on the verge of crushing the U.S. defense periphery that would've allowed them unfettered access to helpless U.S. landing forces gathered off the coast.

 

without looking it up, which battle was this?

[PhillyB]

3. The P51 is my poo.

 

i cut my teeth on CFS 1, played 2 for a while, stopped playing a few years before 3 came out... i've never played it. i may have to change this

[Marguide]

the following naval battle took place during the latter stages of the war in the pacific theater of operations: during the first night of engagements several IJN heavy cruisers were downed by U.S. submarines, including the lead admiral's flagship. three days of intense fighting included a midnight gun battle between U.S. and IJN battleship lines (the closest thing to Plan Orange seen in WWII), extensive carrier-based strikes on IJN fleets that decimated the remainder of their carrier fleet, sunk the Musashi (sister ship of the Yamato, largest battleship in the world) and culminated in a group of exposed U.S. light carriers and destroyers holding off a massive fleet of IJN battleships and heavy cruisers at close range and inexplicably causing the Japanese admiral to turn back on the verge of crushing the U.S. defense periphery that would've allowed them unfettered access to helpless U.S. landing forces gathered off the coast.

 

without looking it up, which battle was this?

 

Leyte Gulf.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course I looked it up. I'm not one of those grizzled old guys you see on the History Channel, smoking a pipe and recounting war stories, I just know how to use the internet.

[PhillyB]

Leyte Gulf.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course I looked it up. I'm not one of those grizzled old guys you see on the History Channel, smoking a pipe and recounting war stories, I just know how to use the internet.

 

pie for quick research skillz, i tried to make it as nebulous as possible

[Qu1million]

welp guess we're back to obscure WWII trivia

Q: What famous Japanese admiral and Pearl Harbor mastermind was intercepted by a squadron of P-38 fighters and shot down over Bougainville in the Solomon Islands in 1943 during a morale-boosting trip after following U.S. intelligence's capture of his itinerary?

Ben Affleck