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
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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
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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
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