Remember, this information is for your enjoyment only, so please don’t send the answers here – they’ll be in KTB #168 next month.

The two Royal Navy battleships sunk at Alexandria by the Italian “charioteers” on 19 December 1942 were HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH and HMS VALIANT.

The battleship USS PENNSYLVANIA was hit by a torpedo off Okinawa on 12 august 1945 and so became the last major American warship damaged in WW II. She was the only American battleship that was not seriously damaged in the Japanese surprise air raid on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor.

Shame on you if you didn’t know this one – surrender ceremonies for the Japanese were held aboard the USN battleship USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay.

Sir Bertram Ramsey, Allied Expeditionary Force Naval Commander was killed in a plane crash in Paris on New Year’s Day 1945.

The highest casualty rate sustained by the US Marines happened during the 81 day Okinawa campaign in 1945. The 29th Marine Corps Regiment suffered 2,821 battle casualties of a group of 3,512 men. That was more than 80% casualties.

For KTB #168 next month, do you know:

What was the first American battleship launched after the war began in Europe?
What was the Japanese ship AWA MARU carrying when she was sunk by the American submarine USS QUEENFISH on 1 April 1945?
What was the name of the first Liberty Ship ever built?
What were the two Japanese warships sunk in the 11 December 1941 Japanese invasion of Wake Island?
Who took the only American aerial photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

Remember, answers will be in KTB #168 next month, but this will test your memory of World War II history.