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Title: Name this?
Post by: B17Skull12 on January 09, 2004, 11:14:55 PM

was poking around on google and found this.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_115_1073714285.jpg)

Title: Name this?
Post by: Ridge 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!

Title: Name this?
Post by: Ridge 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...

Title: Name this?
Post by: B17Skull12 on January 09, 2004, 11:51:27 PM

don't know how credible the source is but your wrong both times.  (i think)

Title: Name this?
Post by: Ridge 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...

Title: Name this?
Post by: B17Skull12 on January 10, 2004, 12:21:36 AM

lany from navy history site.
(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h81000/h81279.jpg)
my picture i found
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_115_1073714285.jpg)
they langly has no tower on it

Title: Name this?
Post by: Ridge on January 10, 2004, 12:24:44 AM

Oh poo...Ark Royal?

Title: Name this?
Post by: Charon on January 10, 2004, 12:58:10 AM

The German carrier attempt, Graf Zeppelin

Charon

Title: Name this?
Post by: B17Skull12 on January 10, 2004, 12:58:21 AM

charon is right
found it here
http://www.voodoo.cz/ww2car/

Title: Name this?
Post by: Ridge on January 10, 2004, 12:58:48 AM

Charon, had my Ark answer been wrong, that was my next guess :P

Title: Name this?
Post by: Charon 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 :)

Charon