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 Dec. 9th, 2007

Dear Patriots,

 

    Congratulations to Phil from Greentown, IN who is this week's history challenge winner!  Phil will be shipped a "2008 Civil War Calendar".  November 8th, 1861 was the correct answer to this weeks history challenge;  Click here for the resource information! Mike from Wright Patterson Air Force Base was the Bonus Challenge Winner. The USS Alligator at location E8 (off the coast of Cape  Hatteras, NC), was the answer to the Bonus Challenge;  Click here to see the solution for the Bonus Challenge.

 

The USS Alligator was the first official U.S. submarine to:

1. Be ordered and built for the U.S. Navy

2. Have a diver's lockout chamber.

3. Be deployed to a combat zone.

4. Have onboard air compressors for air renewal/diver support.

5. Be commanded by a U.S. Naval Officer.

6. Be designed with an air purifying system.

7. Have an underwater test witnessed by a U.S. President (Lincoln)

8. Have electrically-detonated limpet mines.

9. Undergo an overhaul in a U.S. naval shipyard.

10. Utilize oars as a propulsion system

 

Sincerely,

Chris Peterson

 TigerDirect

 
 

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Weekly History Challenge

This week's prize is the book "War Stories II Heroism in the Pacific" with Oliver North (includes DVD)

 

The Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 was only one step in a larger plan to dominate the Pacific. Just a few days later on December 10th, the Japanese would land troops in the Philippines and Guam where they would captured over 500 American Soldiers. Our allies would also take heavy loses on December 10th,  where the British Navy Dispatched Force Z from Singapore to engage a Japanese landing force near Kuantan (a town on the east coast of Malaya). The fleet was hit by three waves of Japanese planes resulting in the lost of a battleship and a battlecruiser with over 820 sailors lost. Churchill would remark "In all the war, I never received a more direct shock". Name either one of these British Ships that was lost on December 10th, 1941.

 

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