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THE FREEPER CANTEEN - THE U S History Quiz - Wednesday, July 26, 2017
The bestest troops and vets in the whole world....and their families, too! | Tuesday, July 25, 2017 | LUV W and The Canteen Support Crew

Posted on 07/25/2017 6:00:03 PM PDT by luvie

~ Freeper Canteen ~
Canteen Mission Statement

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies' military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Today We Want You To Take The.....

U S History Quiz
HT--PRO




Click HERE to take the quiz!

To share your results, click on the green "HTML" button & copy & paste the code into a "Reply" box.

Have Fun!!

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support and entertain our troops and veterans and their families, and is family friendly!


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To: lightman

I got 9 of 10 but I don’t consider pop culture questions to be real American History questions (just grousing about not remembering the director of Rosemary’s Baby). For having scored a “5” on my American History AP Exam in 1976, I claim that right.


21 posted on 07/25/2017 6:37:54 PM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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To: LUV W
Today is the 122 anniversary of the Army Air force Exchange services which was started July 25, 1895 so Soldiers would not have to pay steep prices for their needs.

This year the Exchange is allowing Veterans to buy online Tax Free and shipping free.

22 posted on 07/25/2017 6:39:22 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: yarddog

Hai! I got nine out of ten. I think the one I missed must have been about that WW2 ship. I said it was an ice cream making ship.


23 posted on 07/25/2017 6:41:02 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: LUV W

Hi Luv. Sez here this week I am Don Larsen. Perfect.

You got 10 out of 10

Perfect score! You are a genius! Very impressive.


24 posted on 07/25/2017 6:41:04 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("Silence is violence.")
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To: henkster

Oh, knowing you, you’ll get 10/10. :)


25 posted on 07/25/2017 6:41:12 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: LUV W

Got all ten, AND got Blue back tonight.

It was a Voltage regulator, just as i thought.


26 posted on 07/25/2017 6:44:38 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: LUV W

perfectomundo!

27 posted on 07/25/2017 6:46:42 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MAKOTHEDOG

same here


28 posted on 07/25/2017 6:47:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: mountainlion

Now, that’s some great history to know! Thanks for sharing!


29 posted on 07/25/2017 6:48:22 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: left that other site

Now, that’s good news! I hope fixing that wasn’t $$ca-ching!


30 posted on 07/25/2017 6:53:23 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: smokingfrog

Yooooooo....good for you, man!


31 posted on 07/25/2017 6:54:02 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: LUV W

10/10, and I am NOT signing on to Facebook to share my score.


32 posted on 07/25/2017 6:55:57 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: LUV W

10 out of 10. But that shouldn’t surprise you.


33 posted on 07/25/2017 6:55:59 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Very good! I hope I do even close to Perfection! :)


34 posted on 07/25/2017 6:56:06 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: LUV W

Not too bad. About 5 weeks pay. (But I only make $24.00 a week! LOL!)


35 posted on 07/25/2017 6:57:34 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

No worries! LOL! We just like to share amongst us here in the Canteen!

Good score!


36 posted on 07/25/2017 7:02:44 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: Publius

Not at all surprised, Mr. P! :)


37 posted on 07/25/2017 7:03:15 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: LUV W

10/10

I’ve never seen even one episode of Cheers though...


38 posted on 07/25/2017 7:04:06 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: LUV W

On the night of March 26-27, 1942, ATIK was cruising alone several hundred miles southeast of the Virginia Capes. An undetected U-boat, operating in darkness on the surface, fired a single torpedo at ATIK around 1945 hours, which struck the cargo vessel’s port side just below the bridge. The resultant explosion caused an immediate fire, and the ship quickly began to list to port, as sea water poured into a huge hole in her hull. Shortly before 2300 hours that same evening, radio monitoring stations in New Jersey and New York received the following distress message:

SOS Lat. 36-00 N, Long. 70-00 W, CAROLYN burning forward, not bad.

Two minutes later a second message was received:
Torpedo attack, burning forward; require assistance.

Then, nothing…

At the scene of the attack, after closing in to observe the results of his attack, the U-boat’s captain noted that his victim was dead in the water. In classic Q-ship fashion, the crew of the ATIK lowered a lifeboat and pretended to abandon ship. As the U-boat turned, ATIK suddenly resumed speed, paralleling her attacker’s course.

Her guns were unmasked and ATIK’s navy crew commenced firing. Shells from the Qship’s 4-inch guns hit wide of their mark, but .50-caliber machine gun fire ricocheted around the U-boat’s conning tower. One German on the U-boat’s bridge was mortally wounded. Pulling out of range, her captain later wrote: “We had been incredibly lucky”.

The U-boat submerged, re-approached her target and at 2129 hours a second torpedo plunged into ATIK’s machinery spaces. The U-boat surfaced shortly thereafter and her crew watched the plucky cargo vessel sinking bow first; her single screw high out of the water. Some of the ATIK’s crew was seen embarking in lifeboats; this time for real.

At 2250 hours, an enormous explosion tore the ship to pieces; killing most if not all of her crew. Any survivors of that blast were apparently lost during a severe gale that hit the scene shortly after the Q-ship went down. The cause of that explosion remains unknown.

At dawn the next day, aircraft were dispatched to search the area from which the distress signal had emanated, but found nothing. A destroyer and a tug were later sent out to investigate, but had to turn back, due to gale conditions.

ASTERION (ex-EVELYN), on patrol miles away, intercepted the ATIK’s distress messages. Without hesitation, she steamed towards the scene of the attack to hopefully render assistance to her sister. When she eventually got there, days later, her crew found no signs of wreckage, lifeboats or survivors...just trackless ocean.

The loss of the ATIK (ex-CAROLYN) with all hands essentially ended America’s experiment with Q-ships. By the end of 1943, a system for protecting convoys of merchant ships using warships and aircraft had been instituted, and her sister ship and the several other converted Q-ships had all been assigned to other duties.

http://www.nnapprentice.com/alumni/letter/Q_Ships_of_Newport_News.pdf


39 posted on 07/25/2017 7:04:25 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SkyDancer
They made Pavlova on US Atkin ☺
40 posted on 07/25/2017 7:07:48 PM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)
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