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Widewing · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2003, 01:02:07 PM »

French Battleship Jean Bart in Casablanca harbor, November 1942.

My regards,

Widewing

frank3 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 09, 2003, 02:44:35 PM »

knowing widewing it's pointless to say otherwise...

..I go with him

hazed- · « **Reply #3 on:** August 09, 2003, 03:19:33 PM »

brady tell him you was asking about the 3rd boat from the bottom of the screen and hes got it wrong!

hey if Batman (widewing) is so smart why does he wear his underpants on the outside?

frank3 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 09, 2003, 03:26:33 PM »

....how do you know?

brady · « **Reply #5 on:** August 09, 2003, 07:57:12 PM »

Jean Bart in Casablanca harbor, it is:)

Man I was woried about this pic dident know if anyone would get it:)

Which ship is named after Captian Archers dog?

APDrone · « **Reply #6 on:** August 09, 2003, 08:16:41 PM »

LOL Brady,

Considering Captain Archer's dog wont exist for another hundred and a handfull years, I'd venture to say that nobody before 1950 would be able to know.

Call it a hunch..

brady · « **Reply #7 on:** August 09, 2003, 10:33:42 PM »

You miis the episode whaer they Time travel back to Casablanca:)

Lev354 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 09, 2003, 10:44:39 PM »

Is that part of the Porthos visible at the top of the photo near the left?

Lev.

APDrone · « **Reply #9 on:** August 09, 2003, 10:46:20 PM »

Wait.. I did miss one episode.. but.. but..

NNNNAAAAWWWW.. you gotta be pullin' my leg!!!

brady · « **Reply #10 on:** August 09, 2003, 11:41:34 PM »

The freighter Porthos is partialy visable in the upper left hand corner.

Widewing · « **Reply #11 on:** August 10, 2003, 10:38:18 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by frank3
knowing widewing it's pointless to say otherwise...

..I go with him

Actually, this is a well known photo.

Unable to go to sea, the Jean Bart opened fire on the American invasion force. The Massachusetts responded, silencing the the French guns in short order. Jean Bart was of the latest French Dreadnaught class, about 795 feet in length, displacing around 42,000 tons full load. However, its guns and armor were inferior to the American battlewagon and being unable to leave the dock, it was a helpless sitting duck.

Later, after a repair party managed to get one of Jean Bart's turrets operating again, the USS Ranger sent in SBDs with 1,000 pound SAPs to deliver the final blow. All in all, the French Vichy fleet at Casablanca was utterly devestated (most sortied out to oppose the American landings) by Naval gunfire and the SBDs and TBFs of the American carriers. The French ran out a Light Cruiser, six destroyers, and 20+ smaller patrol vessels, as well as eleven submarines. Every ship was disabled or sunk, and seven of the subs went down with their crews.

My regards,

Widewing