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Offline B17Skull12

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« on: January 09, 2004, 11:14:55 PM »
was poking around on google and found this.
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II/JG3 DGS II

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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2004, 11:23:40 PM »
US Escort or "Jeep" carriers, designed to escort supply convoys across the Atlantic and maintain air cover over the fleet!

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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2004, 11:26:15 PM »
WAIT! I was wrong! Its the USS Langley, first American aircraft carrier! A converted destroyer, if I remember right...

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« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2004, 11:51:27 PM »
don't know how credible the source is but your wrong both times.  (i think)
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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2004, 12:11:42 AM »
I am my sources, and I am about 95% sure that is the Langley. I can post a pic I found on a US Navy website of her, if you want...

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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2004, 12:21:36 AM »
lany from navy history site.

my picture i found

they langly has no tower on it
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« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2004, 12:24:44 AM »
Oh poo...Ark Royal?

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« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2004, 12:58:10 AM »
The German carrier attempt, Graf Zeppelin

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« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2004, 12:58:21 AM »
charon is right
found it here
http://www.voodoo.cz/ww2car/
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« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2004, 12:58:48 AM »
Charon, had my Ark answer been wrong, that was my next guess :P

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« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2004, 01:20:08 AM »
It didn't have an allied appearence and it was still floating... only one carrier it could be :)

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