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To: Vermont Lt

What other ships are there named after an enemy nation (or enemy city-state)?


27 posted on 05/03/2022 10:24:12 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right; Dan in Wichita

We do have the USS Belleau Wood, which was enemy held at the time, or the USS Saipan, which was real enemy territory, part of the nation of Japan even before the war, as was the USS Iwo Jima.


34 posted on 05/03/2022 11:16:01 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Tell It Right

Ya may be over-thinking it a tad. Tripoli was also a battle - and the naming is a memorium to a famous battle. Similar names would include Guadalcanal and Meuse-Argonne.


39 posted on 05/03/2022 12:01:59 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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