Trivia!

Is it the Reina Mercedes? She fits some of the criteria.
J

 

Cool,try this...

I had a busy war. I was afloat at the start and still afloat at the end. I shot down a B-17 while in a left prong. I was bombed and came back. I was torpedoed and came back. I was mined and eventually sunk by the Newfoundland as a target. Who am I?

J

 

That sounds familure...

 

Nothing, WOW. Maybe this will help;
I am Japanese.

 

I was just starting to search that direction. I was thinking of Yamamoto's Flagship from the attack on Pearl.

 

That was Nagato, but it wasn 't her.
J

 

I firgured as much because she went down at Bikini Atoll.

 

HIJMS Takao

 

Takao it is. You're up crzyhawk.
J

 

I was one of only two ships of my type from my nation to see action at Pearl Harbor, I missed Coral Sea but was present for the other carrier duels at Midway, Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz, Philippine Sea, and Leyte Gulf. I was finally knocked out in mid 1945.

Who am I?

 

The Tone.
Once i found it, i realized that it was the obvious choice for you.

 

BAH, too easy. I was trying to bait people into the obvious (but incorrect) answer of USS Enterprise. Of course, that would have required people to assume I was counting the USS Lexington as the second US Carrier at Pearl Harbor.

 

I thought that the US was the obvious side, so i went to Japanese carriers. then i saw you meant type and i looked up the order of battle.
Wiki taught me the rest. You may go again, as i have nothing.

 

Who was the first US naval aviator to receive credit for downing an enemy aircraft in WW2. Where did it happen?

 

Report of Action with Japanese at Oahu on December 7, 1941.
One Japanese plane was definitely shot down by Lieutenant C. E. Dickinson Jr., USN, and MILLER, William C., RM1c, USN, in 6-S-4.

 

Here is an interesting bit I happen to run across.

Dec 1942: - Eight PT boats (PT 36, PT 37, PT 40, PT 43, PT 44, PT 48, PT 59, and PT 109) turn back 8 Japanese destroyers attempting to reinforce Japanese forces on Guadalcanal.

 

Now this contradics what I had stated earlier!!!

Dec 10, 1941 - PBY piloted by LT Utter of VP-101 shoots down Japanese ZERO in first Navy air-to-air kill during World War II.
This happened in the Philippines.

 

Doh, I phrased that poorly. I suppose I should have said "fighter pilot". The answer I was looking for was Ens Rawrie from Fighting 6 at Taroa, 01 FEB 1942. It seems there is some controversy in your own sources as to who gets the distinction, so I'll give it to you!

EDIT: I just looked over LT Dickinson's AAR from Pearl Harbor, and he did not see the plane that his gunner RM1 Miller shot up hit the ground. He fired into another aircraft before being forced to bail out, but didn't kill it. Also, ENS McCarthy was the pilot of 6-S-9, as wingman to LT Dickinson. Dickinson was flying 6-S-4.

 

What WW2 mine layer could carry up to 600 mines?

(Yes if I get my floating mine perfected, this is the ship I will be buliding to deploy them!)