This quiz is for your enjoyment. Please do not send the answers here - they will appear in KTB #162 next month.

Answers

256. Although alcohol was strictly prohibited aboard USN ships, submariners called theirs ‘depth charge whiskey’. It has also been known by other names, including ‘torpedo juice’ and just plain ‘sick bay alcohol’.

257. Okay, there is no way you could not have known that the Skipper who sank the first ship of World War II was Fritz-Julius Lemp in command of U-30. While we all should know this anyhow, it was the answer also to question #253, printed about three inches above this question in KTB #160 last month.

258. It was Horst Kessler commanding U-704 who tried to sink RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH. On 9 November 1942, he fired a four torpedo spread (fan of fate) at the QUEEN and heard one detonation, but no damage. At the time of WW II, rumor was that Hitler himself would give a quarter of a million dollars to the Skipper who could sink either of the QUEENs, it just wasn’t true.

259. When SS DORCHESTER was sinking, the famous ‘Four Chaplains’ were George L. Fox, Clark V. Poling, John P. Washington and Alexander D. Goode. There were not enough life jackets aboard, so these four gave theirs to soldiers and were last seen at the rail of the sinking ship. They were famous in the US at that time.

260. Calvin Graham was decorated with a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for action aboard the battleship USS SOUTH DAKOTA (BB 57) - and then the US Navy learned that he was just twelve years of age!

Questions

For KTB #162 next month, do you know:

261. What was the only I.J.N. battleship to survive WW II?

262. What was the only RN aircraft carrier to survive WWII?

263. What were the ship’s bands who were finalists in the ‘Battle of Music’ at Pearl Harbor the night of September 6 December 1941?

264. Where were Japan’s midget subs designed and built?

265. What was the ‘Darkest Day’ for American submarines?

Remember - the answers will be in KTB #162 next month.