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Yesterday's Trivia Subject: WWII - Ships Lost in the Atlantic

Yesterday's Trivia Challenge Answers

1. What was the only U.S. aircraft carrier -- after being torpedoed by a German U-Boat near the Azores on May 28, 1944 -- to be sunk in the Atlantic?

  USS Hancock
  USS Block Island
  USS Franklin
  USS Bennington
  USS Randolph

2. What destroyer -- later immortalized in a Woodie Guthrie song -- was the first U.S. Navy ship to be sunk in the Atlantic on October 31, 1941?

  USS Houston
  USS Wasp
  USS Helena
  USS Bunker Hill
  USS Reuben James

3. What U-Boat sank the British Carrier HMS Eagle, and was itself later sunk by the USS Woolsey and the USS Trippe?

  U-47
  U-73
  U-107
  U-156
  U-196

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