View Full Version : A QUICK QUIZ - WW2
pdf27
08-18-2005, 01:03 PM
12 is William Joyce (aka Lord Haw-Haw)
PzKpfw VI Tiger
08-18-2005, 01:23 PM
11. Either Petain or a really bad pic of Charles DeGualle
Is that DeGualle :? It's a horrible pic if it is :shock:
Firefly
08-18-2005, 02:27 PM
11. is definately de-gaulle
Right cnuts, here's my feeble attempt:
Perhaps not full names, some of the buggers had loads of middle names but here's at least Christian & family monikers.
01. Adolf Hitler
02. Guy Gibson
03. Harry Truman
04. George Catlett Marshall
05. Benito Mussolini
06. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
07. Josef Goebbels
08. Michi Hirohito
09. Joseph Vissarionovitsj Dsjugasjvili Stalin
10. Bernard Law Montgomery
11. Charles DeGualle
12. William Joyce
13. Winston Churchill
14. Eva Braun
15. Anne Frank
16. Erwin Rommel
17. Betty Grabel
18. Heinrich Himmler
19. Sir Hugh 'Stuffy' Dowding
20. Vera Lynn
Now give me big prizes.
Gen. Sandworm
08-24-2005, 07:43 AM
Well cuts dont know what happened to tubby but I think you probably did better than me. So lets hand the question over to you.
I think Tubs went on ten days leave, so he should be back soon.
Shall we let him tell us the answers as it doesn't look like anyone else is up for it ?
Tsolias
08-24-2005, 09:14 AM
Cuts i think you should post a question.
Cuts, we'll wait another 24 hours.
Cuts, we'll wait another 24 hours.
In fact we waited more than 10 days! Sorry lads!
Tubbyboy is MIA so I will ask anybody to post a ww2 quiz!
Man of Stoat
09-13-2005, 07:43 AM
Cuts, we'll wait another 24 hours.
In fact we waited more than 10 days! Sorry lads!
Tubbyboy is MIA so I will ask anybody to post a ww2 quiz!
OK, an easy one:
What were the two codenames of the humanitarian effort in the Netherlands in 1945, and why was this operation so special? More detail gets extra bonus points.
Topor
09-13-2005, 09:15 AM
Operation Manna (UK)
Operation Chowhound (US).
A truce was agreed with the Germans in order for the Op's to go ahead.
Man of Stoat
09-13-2005, 09:22 AM
Operation Manna (UK)
Operation Chowhound (US).
A truce was agreed with the Germans in order for the Op's to go ahead.
Told you it would be easy :D:D:D
Gen. Sandworm
10-03-2005, 02:11 AM
Questions :?: :?: :?: :?:
Gen. Sandworm
10-07-2005, 03:23 AM
K what type of plane did Rudolf Hess steal to fly to England? Date too please!!!
Bf-110, sometime in 1941. Can't remember exactly.
Gen. Sandworm, please say something! :lol: :lol:
Gen. Sandworm
10-17-2005, 03:12 PM
Gen. Sandworm, please say something! :lol: :lol:
Sorry. BDL you got the plane and Dani got the date. So one of you its your turn.
I'll let BDL to input the quiz!
The English translation is 'Cherry Blossom', what am I talking about?
Tsolias
10-17-2005, 04:09 PM
I think that was the name of an airplane specifically designed for kamikaze attacks. :?
Or its not WWII related?
I think that was the name of an airplane specifically designed for kamikaze attacks. :?
Or its not WWII related?
Thought it might take longer than that :cry:
It's a Japanese jet powered kamizaze plane
Yokosuka MXY-7 Okha?
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5144/okha2225pc.jpg
(Okha=Cherry Blossom)
Edited: I had a bad connection!
Tsolias
10-17-2005, 04:44 PM
Thought it might take longer than that :cry:
It's a Japanese jet powered kamizaze plane
Well kamikazes was always one of my favoured WWII facts.
OK here's my question:
A valet employed in the British Embassy in Ankara, Turkey during WWII. While working there he used a duplicate key to open the Ambassador's safe and photographed all the documents he found there to pass on to the Germans. These included plans for the D-day invasion. He was paid 300,000 British pounds for this information, but later, when he tried to use this money to build a hotel, he discovered the notes to be counterfeit. he later wrote his memoirs which earned him quite a large sum but he died in poverty.
Name and codename?
Elyese Bazna alias Ulysses Diello - codename Cicero.
Edited: also you could check a movie!! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303102433/103-7259622-3363045?v=glance
Tsolias
10-17-2005, 05:01 PM
Elyese Bazna alias Ulysses Diello - codename Cicero.
Edited: also you could check a movie!! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303102433/103-7259622-3363045?v=glance
Dam it Dani :evil:
You're too fast!
Your turn.
Dam it Dani :evil:
You're too fast!
Your turn.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Which US Army General was first choice to be commander of American forces in Europe?
Topor
10-17-2005, 08:58 PM
Patton.
Removed from consideration after an incident involving a soldier suffering from what is now known as PTSD.
Patton.
Removed from consideration after an incident involving a soldier suffering from what is now known as PTSD.
The "slapping" incident happened on 12th August 1943. On 23rd August General Patton apologized to the 3rd Infantry Division and said, "I love every bone in your heads". Concluding his remarks, he walked from the stage but then turned dramatically and saluted the American flag and the Division’s standard before leaving without another word.
Also good reference: http://www.pattonhq.com/unknown/chap08.html
As for my quiz, search earlier then August '43! :D
festamus
10-18-2005, 06:40 PM
Dam it Dani :evil:
You're too fast!
Your turn.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Which US Army General was first choice to be commander of American forces in Europe?
My guess
Marshall, of "Marshall Plan" fame. Don't remember the first name since I didn't Google this or anything, but instead of taking the job Eisenhower took, he was Chief of Staff back in DC.
Am I close?
Firefly
10-18-2005, 07:11 PM
I would go with that, there was some talk of Ike and Marshall swapping jobs, Ike wasnt too happy about overseeing his former boss though and Marshall thought he should stay put.
Neither Marshall nor Eisenhower!
Clue: His name is very well known (but rather in other context than expected).
Firefly
10-19-2005, 10:02 AM
Not MacArthur?
Blitz
10-19-2005, 03:25 PM
Not over rated Omar Bradley, of Huertgen Forrest fame is it?
PzKpfw VI Tiger
10-19-2005, 04:20 PM
Not over rated Omar Bradley, of Huertgen Forrest fame is it?
Unfortunately not....... :shock:
I will let my quiz here for another aprox. 24 hours. Tomorrow at 22.30 GMT I will let you know the answer in case that nobody could find anything.
Which US Army General was first choice to be commander of American forces in Europe?
Clue: His name is very well known (but rather in other context than expected).
Lt. Gen. Frank Maxwell Andrews - and the context is "Andrews Air Force Base" !!!
Quoted from http://www.dcmilitary.com/baseguides/airforce/andrews/aafb_namesake.html:
At the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, Allied Forces leaders determined time had come to establish a separate European Theater of Operations. General Marshall proposed that General Andrews command it. In February 1943, General Andrews assumed command U.S. Forces in the European Theater of Operations. A few months later, he died in an aircraft accident off the coast of Iceland on May 3, 1943. General Marshall delivered the eulogy at a memorial service in Washington, saying that Frank Andrews was one of the Army's few great captains.
On March 31, 1945, Mrs. Jeanette "Johnny" Andrews visited Camp Springs Army Air Field, Md., for the dedication ceremony to rename the installation Andrews Field in honor of her late husband. When the Air Force finally became a separate service on Sept. 18, 1947, as General Andrews had so long advocated for, the base was assumed the designation--Andrews Air Force Base.
End quote. My emboldment.
So anyone can add a quiz!
Firefly
10-20-2005, 02:57 PM
Well done Dani, that was a good one.
Thanks mate! You could add a quiz if you have one!
Blitz
10-20-2005, 05:57 PM
Can I? This is easy. " I do not believe in communism, anymore than you do. But ther is nothing wrong with the communist in this country; several of the best friends I have got are communist."
Who said the above quote?
Firefly
10-20-2005, 06:09 PM
Roosevelt?
Topor
10-20-2005, 08:16 PM
Can I? This is easy. " I do not believe in communism, anymore than you do. But ther is nothing wrong with the communist in this country; several of the best friends I have got are communist."
Who said the above quote?
How is this related to WWII :?:
Sturmtruppen
10-20-2005, 08:58 PM
Can I? This is easy. " I do not believe in communism, anymore than you do. But ther is nothing wrong with the communist in this country; several of the best friends I have got are communist."
Who said the above quote?
How is this related to WWII :?:
STALIN was soviet,he was communist,he was at the urss side,the urss fought in the world war 2,the americans did not like the communists.
any tip?,that's why it is relationated to ww2
PzKpfw VI Tiger
10-20-2005, 09:33 PM
I agree with Firefly....Roosevelt?
Blitz
10-21-2005, 05:00 PM
Yes indeed. I think Roosevelt was prez. during WW2. And an allie of Uncle Joe. It pertains. Thanks.
Firefly
10-21-2005, 05:23 PM
Well I agree with Roosevelt, nothing wrong with communists in a democratic society, thats what democracy is all about after all.
OK, an easy question.
What was the smallest German AFV to field the 75mm gun and what nation used it right into the 1970s.
Firefly
10-21-2005, 05:44 PM
bdl, NO.
Hetzer? Some small Middle East country?
Firefly
10-21-2005, 06:00 PM
50% correct my friend.
Firefly
10-21-2005, 06:14 PM
Again 50%, unless Argentina had them in the 70s, provide a link though...
pdf27
10-21-2005, 06:19 PM
Hetzer, Argentina?
If it's the Hetzer then the users will be the Swiss (who used Czech-built examples).
If you're looking for a random country using what was once quite high-tech kit well past it's sell by date then the Swiss are always a likely candidate ;)
Firefly
10-21-2005, 06:21 PM
Hetzer, Argentina?
If it's the Hetzer then the users will be the Swiss (who used Czech-built examples).
If you're looking for a random country using what was once quite high-tech kit well past it's sell by date then the Swiss are always a likely candidate ;)
Bannana and award to PDF, indeed the G-13 was used by the Swiss until the 70's.
You usual difficult question next matey....
Again 50%, unless Argentina had them in the 70s, provide a link though...
Was going to start working through the 'A's in my Ladybird World Atlas :wink:
Didn't have any link, for some reason WW2 kit and Argentina clicked in my mind, I blame Erwin posting those Shermans on his thread.
pdf27
10-21-2005, 06:27 PM
You usual difficult question next matey....
Righty, off to go and search out some awkward images. Shame you can't find any decent photos of the Rolls-Royce Crecy...
Quiz should be up in 10 minutes or so.
pdf27
10-21-2005, 06:38 PM
http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/8647/quiz011mm.jpg
http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/208/quiz027vt.jpg
http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/6595/quiz037xo.jpg
Quite a hard one, so to point you all in the right direction this was a Soviet aircraft. If there aren't any correct guesses by lunchtime tomorrow I'll post a second hint.
Topor
10-21-2005, 08:13 PM
Can I? This is easy. " I do not believe in communism, anymore than you do. But ther is nothing wrong with the communist in this country; several of the best friends I have got are communist."
Who said the above quote?
How is this related to WWII :?:
STALIN was soviet,he was communist,he was at the urss side,the urss fought in the world war 2,the americans did not like the communists.
any tip?,that's why it is relationated to ww2
That's like saying a question about Mirror Group Newspapers is relevant to WWII because its deceased former owner won an MC then :roll:
The question is not asked in the spirit of the quiz, or the site.
Topor
10-21-2005, 08:17 PM
Petlyakov Pe8.
Easy :P
Sturmtruppen
10-21-2005, 11:23 PM
Didn't have any link, for some reason WW2 kit and Argentina clicked in my mind, I blame Erwin posting those Shermans on his thread.http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/argentina/argentina.html
argentine tanks during ww2years.
enjoy!
pdf27
10-22-2005, 07:14 AM
Petlyakov Pe8.
Easy :P
Dammit, and I thought I was being obscure :(
Next question please...
Topor
10-23-2005, 06:00 AM
Easy one here, as I haven't had time to think up something more testing:
What was 617 Squadrun RAF's mission on the night before D-Day?
pdf27
10-23-2005, 07:50 AM
Easy one here, as I haven't had time to think up something more testing:
What was 617 Squadrun RAF's mission on the night before D-Day?
Pretending to be a convoy heading for the Pas de Calais to fool German radar? From memory there was a squadron of Stirlings doing the same job that night too.
Firefly
10-23-2005, 09:53 AM
I go with the above, they circled around ove the Pas De Calais dropping window. Moving slowly forwards at convoy speed?
Topor
10-24-2005, 06:13 AM
Yes.
They had to fly a very precise racetrack path, gradually advancing towards the coast in order for the Window to look like the invasion fleet.
So Topor, name the next quiz poster ( :D )
Topor
10-26-2005, 02:25 PM
pdf27 was first, so the "honour" goes to him :wink:
pdf27
10-26-2005, 05:10 PM
pdf27 was first, so the "honour" goes to him :wink:
Kind of busy right now, so an easy one. What is the motto of 617 squadron, and who is the statement originally attributed to.
Firefly
10-26-2005, 06:06 PM
pdf27 was first, so the "honour" goes to him :wink:
Kind of busy right now, so an easy one. What is the motto of 617 squadron, and who is the statement originally attributed to.
I withdraw from this one. They live near me.
Here is a site for the interested though:
http://www.dambusters.org.uk/
Topor
10-26-2005, 08:19 PM
Marie Antoinette
Oops, missed out the motto;
"Apres moi, le deluge"
pdf27
10-27-2005, 02:44 AM
Right squadron, wrong person on the quote. Close, though.
Topor
10-27-2005, 09:05 AM
Louis XV on his deathbed then. :)
pdf27
10-27-2005, 02:32 PM
Louis XV on his deathbed then. :)
That's the one.
Topor
10-27-2005, 04:14 PM
What was the smallest independent Command in the British Army during WWII?
Crab_to_be
10-27-2005, 04:15 PM
Dwarf Command!
Firefly
10-27-2005, 04:59 PM
Wouldnt Gnome Command be smaller though?
2nd of foot
10-27-2005, 05:26 PM
I thought Gnome command came under garden command, and was it not shut down in WW2 as part of the dig for victory campaign and only reintroduced after rationing stopped.
Topor
10-27-2005, 08:52 PM
Stop it!
You're being silly :P
Sturmtruppen
10-27-2005, 09:29 PM
Stop it!
You're being silly :P
:wink: Wise words mate,wise words....
LargeBrew
10-27-2005, 09:57 PM
Yes stop it Topor and Erwin are right your being silly we all know it was those little blokes in the midget submarines.
Topor
10-28-2005, 08:27 PM
Yes stop it Topor and Erwin are right your being silly we all know it was those little blokes in the midget submarines.
I said ARMY you tit :P
Since when did they operate bleedin' submarines :?: :roll: :wink:
LargeBrew
10-28-2005, 09:37 PM
Excuse me Topor but that would be drunken tit thankyou very much.
Right as I am now fully recovered from last nights excess any chance of a clue
Topor
10-29-2005, 02:23 PM
North Africa & Italy :wink:
pdf27
10-29-2005, 02:28 PM
North Africa & Italy :wink:
Don't suppose it's going to be something boring like Stirling & Stirling by any chance?
Topor
10-29-2005, 07:04 PM
Nope :D
An unresearched guess which may well be shot down in flames, but is it Popski's Private Army ?
Topor
10-30-2005, 12:23 PM
An unresearched guess which may well be shot down in flames, but is it Popski's Private Army ?
That's the one :)
Topor
11-01-2005, 06:51 PM
C'mon Cuts, get yer thinkin' 'ead on & gizza question.
Been to see the Crowman and Wurzel's got his thinkig head again.
Slightly off period* but influenced events that echo to this day.
What was Airman Ross' last steed ?
* FOGB hint here
LargeBrew
11-01-2005, 09:20 PM
If the Airman Ross in question was TE laurence then would it be a Brough Superior
Got it in one LargeBrew !
LargeBrew
11-02-2005, 05:24 PM
Righty oh
Thursday and wednesday are linked by which Kid
LargeBrew
11-02-2005, 08:49 PM
I'll tap those two answers into the computer......computer says no
Just to help things along here's a clue US actor/WW2 veteran.
Topor
11-02-2005, 08:59 PM
Audie Murphy
LargeBrew
11-02-2005, 09:21 PM
Topor, no this guy served in south east Asia.
Gen. Sandworm
11-02-2005, 11:17 PM
I'll tap those two answers into the computer......computer says no
Just to help things along here's a clue US actor/WW2 veteran.
Pappy Boyington
LargeBrew
11-03-2005, 12:07 AM
General Sandworm, no
more clues
Wednesday and Thursday are'nt days of the week one of them was an Op.
This THING is'nt difficult if you knew what IT was than you would LURCH towards this mans most famous tv role.
Topor
11-03-2005, 06:41 AM
Jackie Coogan.
Flew a glider carrying Wingate's Chindits into Burma during Op Thursday.
LargeBrew
11-03-2005, 10:20 AM
Topor, correct Jackie Coogan started his acting career in the 1920's as the Kid in the Charlie Caplin movie of the same name but is most remembered as Uncle Fester( Wednesday was his niece) in the Addams family.
Given the Operational environment and the job he did he clearly had bigger ball's than John Wayne.
Topor
11-03-2005, 01:33 PM
Who & what was Rebecca's partner?
LargeBrew
11-04-2005, 02:24 PM
Go on give us a clue then
Topor
11-04-2005, 07:24 PM
SOE :wink:
Timbo in Oz
11-04-2005, 10:35 PM
Name the staff officer principally responsible for the disastrous, Jock column, flying columns, and defended BOX, tactics that caused the 8th army to be beaten soundly twice - despite superiority in equipment, both times.
Stemmed from the perceived neccessity of using 25pders for A/T protection of infantry, from 1941 on, and German all-arms coordinated tactics, esp A/T arty and tanks.
Which Commonwealth Division's refused to be split up in this way? (max of 4) and which one of these division's performance in the July/August 1942 especially their proper artillery support stunned the Germans, as they hadn't copped it for a long time. the period known to some as 'first alamein' which rather dignifies it too much IMO.
Within a few days the German's knew that 'they' were back.
Lord Haw-Haw etc.
Hint for 1. he was fired when Monty turned up, I don't think he worked again, thank God.
2. think the actual Battle of El Alamein in November and the heavy, culminatory, crumble fighting in the North - by an infantry division - against panzers and panzergrenadiers.
Timbo
LargeBrew
11-05-2005, 11:23 AM
Timbo, Topor is in the chair and the person that correctly guess's his question gets to set the next one. If you go back a few pages on this thread you will get the gist.
By the way have you got any idea as to the answer to Topors question as I am still scratching head and murmuring WTF.
GEE? (assuming you're talking about the nav. aid)
Topor
11-05-2005, 01:34 PM
GEE? (assuming you're talking about the nav. aid)
Close but no banana :wink:
GEE? (assuming you're talking about the nav. aid)
Close but no banana :wink:
Didn't want to win your stupid quiz anyway
*goes into the corner to sulk*
Topor
11-05-2005, 07:29 PM
Ook :!: :wink: :P
GEE? (assuming you're talking about the nav. aid)
Brilliant system - beat seven colours out of Decca (codename ELSAN)
Topor
11-06-2005, 07:42 AM
Another clue:
Archimedes 8)
Topor
11-07-2005, 10:45 AM
As in what Archimedes exclaimed when he made an important discovery.
C'mon you lot, it can't get much easier :wink:
FluffyBunnyGB
11-07-2005, 10:57 AM
The Eureka / Rebecca / BABS / Lucero radio location beacon system?
Topor
11-07-2005, 11:38 AM
'tis indeed Rebecca-Eureka :)
BABS etc. were variations/improvements on the system.
Took yer long enough :P
FluffyBunnyGB
11-07-2005, 12:55 PM
I didn't have the foggiest about it until your last clue.
I'll think up a question and post it soon. I'll be away from Tues lunch until Friday. Is there anyone who will volunteer to keep an eye on the answers for me?
Thanks
Fluffy
FluffyBunnyGB
11-07-2005, 01:48 PM
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a362/FluffyBunnyGB/quizpic03.jpg
3 questions about the WW2 tank in the picture above, in ascending order of difficulty:
a. What country made it?
b. What was it called (model name will do, unless you're a real ninja smartarrse :D )
c. What was this particular variant designed to do?
Kind regards
Fluffy
I didn't have the foggiest about it until your last clue.
I'll think up a question and post it soon. I'll be away from Tues lunch until Friday. Is there anyone who will volunteer to keep an eye on the answers for me?
Thanks
Fluffy
I haven't got a clue mate, PM me the answer if you want and I'll watch it
FluffyBunnyGB
11-07-2005, 03:39 PM
Thanks BDL.
PM to follow.
F
Topor
11-08-2005, 11:04 AM
a) Australian
b)Sentinel (MkIV, I think)
c)It was fitted with two 25pdr guns to test the turret prior to fitting the 17pdr gun that they didn't yet have.
This particular tank; E1 was subsequently fitted with the 17pdr.
You're right mate. According to FB - the Sentinal was cancelled before the 17pdr version was ever used in anger.
Topor
11-09-2005, 07:08 PM
OK, easy one (so I can pass on responsibility :P ).
In which type of aircraft did the RAF's highest scoring fighter pilot gain the majority of his victories?
Timbo in Oz
11-09-2005, 09:04 PM
he did well on Gladiators before that, too.
I know he's NOT the RAF's official highest scorer, Johnnie Johnson is IIRC.
But Pattle is reliably known to have shot down a lot of aircraft in Greece.
Topor
11-10-2005, 01:54 PM
Pattle's the pilot that I'm referring to.
Which aircraft though?
pdf27
11-10-2005, 06:14 PM
Pattle's the pilot that I'm referring to.
Which aircraft though?
15 in the Gladiator, 9 confirmed and roughly 25 unoffical in the Hurricane (probably confirmed at the time, but the squadron records were lost in the fall of Greece).
Topor
11-10-2005, 06:41 PM
pdf27:
Same figures as I have.
Your turn
Timbo in Oz
11-11-2005, 01:30 AM
so Do I get to ask a question now?
so Do I get to ask a question now?
You have to get the previous question right first mate
pdf27
11-11-2005, 10:06 AM
What was the most successful British submarine of WW2 in terms of tonnage sunk?
(easy I know, but I'm running out of ideas)
Timbo in Oz
11-11-2005, 09:39 PM
If we're talking about fighter pilot Pattle, and you read the heading of my post you will see Hurricane I in the text, no?
So my post WAS the first correct answer, no?
And, Topor did not ask for numbers,
But JBTW - 'Pat' Pattle's score in Greece, on Hurricanes, was 40, not 25 according to 33 Sqn's survivors. I met some of them. My Dad was in 3 Sqn RAAF at the same time.
And if we're talking the two gun tank q'n, if an Aussie doesn't know about the Sentinel, I don't know who else would.
There is a 'single 25pder' armed one, on the hill behind Duntroon RMC, here in Canberra dontcha know - more were made with 2 or 6pders. I think only one with a 17pder was made, before shelving the project.
Sentinel was distinguished by a single, one-piece casting, hull.
NOW, can you all try and answer my question about the pommie staff officer?
please?????!!!!!!
TIA?
Warmly, ;-)!
Timbo in Oz
I believe Timbo was first with correct answer - surely it's his crack now ?
pdf27
11-12-2005, 09:44 AM
I believe Timbo was first with correct answer - surely it's his crack now ?
He's more than welcome to if he wants to - I was just going on Topor's comments saying it was my turn.
Topor
11-12-2005, 01:42 PM
he did well on Gladiators before that, too.
I know he's NOT the RAF's official highest scorer, Johnnie Johnson is IIRC.
But Pattle is reliably known to have shot down a lot of aircraft in Greece.
Timbo
There's no mention of the Hurricane in your post which was the answer I was looking for, so that's why I gave pdf the OK for answering the question.
My apologies for sticking my oar in.
I will now retire to the Mess and write out fifty times, "I must RTFQ !"
As an extra penance I'll have a wet for each line.
Timbo in Oz
11-12-2005, 06:07 PM
HurricaneI - I left out the space, I admit.
WHY oh WHY, are the headings in such TINY script?
'kay?
and his combined score WAS above 40.
Timbo in Oz
11-12-2005, 06:14 PM
HEADINGS?????? Topor, eh?
Could you please, please, develop the habit of reading, the heading, always, and first.
'kay?
;-)!
Or I'll come into cyberspace - 'and rip your bloody arms off and I will, too!'*
*apologies to the Auntie Jack show.
Timbo
Timbo in Oz
11-13-2005, 07:30 PM
THIS is what I posted.
No?
"Post subject: Pat Pattle? In a Hurricane Ialmost certainly, hard to know.
he did well on Gladiators before that, too.
I know he's NOT the RAF's official highest scorer, Johnnie Johnson is IIRC.
But Pattle is reliably known to have shot down a lot of aircraft in Greece."
Okay?
LargeBrew
11-13-2005, 08:24 PM
Timbo I went back and read your post and this time noticed your heading. You did answer the question correctly.I'm sure everything will be cleared up when Topor gets back.
I for one never add a heading as until you pointed it out I did'nt realise you could put one in. I tend to just wack up the reply box and start banging away and having had a look at this thread I'm not alone .
I'ts been rememberence day here which often means post parade drinks with the old boys and making sure they get home safe which is why I've only just got on line ( 01.40 GMT)
Topor
11-13-2005, 10:07 PM
I thought I posted a reply this AM but it's not there :?
I think we all missed the Hurricane reference with it being in the Subject bar, as nobody generally uses it except for new threads.
I hope you now realise why I missed it.
As there's been another question posted since, I'll pass next time I get one right & you can have the slot.
Topor
11-13-2005, 10:18 PM
As for the most successful sub., I'll go for HMS Upholder under Captain Wanklyn.
Timbo in Oz
11-14-2005, 12:19 AM
<nt>
For God sake Tmbo! Will you stop using "The post subject:" issue??
As you might notice, that issue it is about a subject and not a sentence or phrase!!!
If you want to post something, post like anybody else and eventually input A SUBJECT in "The post subject" line.
Topor
11-14-2005, 06:50 AM
"Post subject: Gee, then you ahd better get one right real soon, Topor!"
I made an offer that you reply to with this "smart Alec" comment in return.
I suggest you calm down a little & give up on the attitude.
This little gem, along with your post in the "Which LMG" thread doesn't exactly endear you to myself, or others.
You put your reply in the wrong place, where I & many others missed it, EOS.
Can we get back on topic now?
FluffyBunnyGB
11-14-2005, 08:17 AM
Can I have Timbo's go then?
:P
2nd of foot
11-14-2005, 03:56 PM
"Post subject: Gee, then you ahd better get one right real soon, Topor!"
I made an offer that you reply to with this "smart Alec" comment in return.
I suggest you calm down a little & give up on the attitude.
This little gem, along with your post in the "Which LMG" thread doesn't exactly endear you to myself, or others.
You put your reply in the wrong place, where I & many others missed it, EOS.
Can we get back on topic now?
Give him a break Topor, they have lost to us AGAIN and he may be feeling a little upset. :lol:
What was the most successful British submarine of WW2 in terms of tonnage sunk?
(easy I know, but I'm running out of ideas)
As for the most successful sub., I'll go for HMS Upholder under Captain Wanklyn
Get back to topic. pdf27 please confirm it or not.
pdf27
11-14-2005, 05:16 PM
Get back to topic. pdf27 please confirm it or not.
Yup, that's correct. Sorry for the delay, been busy for a day or two.
Topor
11-14-2005, 06:41 PM
OK Timmo; your shout as offered.
Topor
11-16-2005, 07:24 PM
Helloooo Timmoooo......... :?:
Timbo in Oz
11-16-2005, 10:15 PM
Name the staff officer principally responsible for the disastrous, Jock column, flying columns, and defended BOX, tactics that caused the 8th army to be beaten soundly twice - despite superiority in equipment, both times.
Stemmed from the perceived neccessity of using 25pders for A/T protection of infantry, from 1941 on, and German all-arms coordinated tactics, esp A/T arty and tanks.
Which Commonwealth Division's refused to be split up in this way? (a possible max of 4) and which one of these division's performance in the July/August 1942 battles including their proper artillery support stunned the Germans, as they hadn't copped such for a long time.
This is the period known to some as 'first alamein' which rather dignifies it too much, IMO. Within a few days the German's knew that 'they' were back.
Lord Haw-Haw had to come up with a new name for them, witty though this new one was - 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thousand Thieves'.
Hint for 1. he was fired when Monty turned up, I don't think he worked again, thank God. Monty got to 'know him well' at SC when this person was on the DS staff!!!!!
2. Think Tobruk, before the Poles and the Sth Africans, and the actual Battle of El Alamein in November and the heavy, culminatory, crumble fighting in the North - by an infantry division - against panzers and panzergrenadiers. Renewed after 10 Corps and Ramsden wet their pants.
Timbo
SS. Kallan
11-17-2005, 03:53 AM
I dont quite understand that, Timbo. How many questions are you asking and why?
Timbo in Oz
11-17-2005, 05:32 PM
Okay,
1. Who was this idiot? (paraphrasing the Goon Show)
2. a) Which British C'wlth Division, definitely refused to adopt the above tactics and thus retained it's real power - via arty support, and THUS gave the PAA, and its core the DAK, a big shock when it returned to action in July 1942?
2 b) What other Cw'lth Infantry Divisons, if any, also refused to be split up even as training. I have an idea but I'm not certain.
One British Division that did was I think the 51st Highland who arrived late enough under Wimberley, and the 46(?)th who were the 8th Armies remaining reserve?
And, why?
Well I am exploring the knowledge here on the 1942 campaigns in the Western Desert. aka the Benghazi handicap, the shit fights to 'stabilise' at Alamein and the final Battle of ....... .
'kay?
Crab_to_be
11-18-2005, 03:32 AM
All of the above in 1500 words, you have two hours. You may turn over your papers and start writing.
Firefly
11-18-2005, 03:58 AM
LOL, I have no idea about this at all, I dont even understand the question, let alone be able to give an answer.
LOL, I have no idea about this at all, I dont even understand the question, let alone be able to give an answer.
I think that Timbo must read the name of this topic.
"A QUICK QUIZ"
South African Military
11-19-2005, 01:44 AM
LOL, I have no idea about this at all, I dont even understand the question, let alone be able to give an answer.
I think that Timbo must read the name of this topic.
"A QUICK QUIZ"
haha. I wonder whos up to the challenge... i know Im not :)
Timbo in Oz
11-19-2005, 07:39 PM
d'ja want me to give the answers?
1. Dorman-Smith, who believed, by late 1941, that Infantry just 'couldn't cope'.
2a. The Australian 9th Division, Haw Haws other name for whom wsas 'The Rats of Tobruk' who pretty effectively put the lie to that nonsense - IN 1941 - at Tobruk, and definitely from July 1942 on.
In "The Battle of El Alamein", their only tank support was 23rd Brigade with Valentines, and they engaged and severely damaged all but one of the DAK PZ and PG divisions in the extended crumbling fighting in the North. IE after the mid-point of the battle when Monty finally realised the armour / 10 Corps just would not 'get up into the fire fight'.
NB Something that all the C'wlth Div'ns Commanders had said would happen, during the planning stages. Freyberg, Morshead, et al.
The main reason they did cope was they remained a true division with integral artillery fire support, able to reach up to corps and Army for additional support.
Few formations in the 8th Army WERE able to do this, speedily or at all in July 1942.
My father remembers returning pilots reporting the sheer size and speed of the artillery concentrations the 9th Division began using, with just one Brigade up, early on in July 1942.
Viz. Not one armoured Divison's Commander was in the habit of travelling tactically with his CRA - in Div. tac HQ. Monty had to order them to, repeatedly.
2b. re not going alond with D-S's tactics? I believe one of the Sth African Divisions refused too, and the Indian infantry division.
Dorman-Smith went in to deserved obscurity in September '42, along with another idiot Corbett.
Timbo in Oz
11-19-2005, 07:46 PM
During the early part of the war , three british cruisers fought the Admiral Graf Spee commerce raider, dmaging it sufficiently for it to take refuge, in neutral Montevideo harbour, within the Plate estuary.
Name the cruiser which was not RN.
South African Military
11-19-2005, 08:14 PM
During the early part of the war , three british cruisers fought the Admiral Graf Spee commerce raider, dmaging it sufficiently for it to take refuge, in neutral Montevideo harbour, within the Plate estuary.
Name the cruiser which was not RN.
Thats better :D
HMNZS (Her Majesty's New Zealand Ship) Achilles.
pdf27
11-19-2005, 08:22 PM
Thats better :D
HMNZS (Her Majesty's New Zealand Ship) Achilles.
<pedant mode> His Majesty's New Zealand Ship Achilles</pedant mode>
Anyway, your question I presume?
Till SAM's returning, please find 12 quick quiz :D
http://www.skylighters.org/visquiz/
Till SAM's returning, please find 12 quick quiz :D
http://www.skylighters.org/visquiz/
Well, maybe I try a new one.
In 101st Airborne usergroup Tsolias posted in our quiz section as follows:
On December 1941, SS Reichsführer Himmler issued the following instructions to the Gestapo.
"After lengthy consideration, it is the will of the Führer that the measures taken against those who are guilty of offenses against the Reich or against the occupation forces in occupied areas should be altered. The Führer is of the opinion that in such cases penal servitude or even a hard labor sentence for life will be regarded as a sign of weakness. An effective and lasting deterrent can be achieved only by the death penalty or by taking measures which will leave the family and the population uncertain as to the fate of the offender. Deportation to Germany serves this purpose."
How is this action known (by what name)?
Would you help us with the answer? :wink:
Firefly
12-08-2005, 02:56 PM
OK, its been a whole week, give us a clue?
:oops: Sorry mate! I forgot (like most of us :( )about this topic.
Here is the answer:
The Night and Fog Decree.
I bet that Tiger wouldn't be upset if I'll propose that anyone could post a quiz (this time only).
Tsolias
12-08-2005, 04:55 PM
OK here it is:
One of Japan’s methods of destroying tanks was to bury a very large artillery shell with on ly the nose exposed. When a tank came near enough a soldier would whack the shell with a hammer.
..True or false?
Timbo in Oz
12-08-2005, 05:41 PM
True. They used Allied unexploded bombs, in a similar way.
their approaches infused the Koreans, VC, and NVA.
instant counter attacks, digging - concealed bunkers etc etc.
human wave charges.
Jitter parties at night.
Timbo in Oz
12-08-2005, 05:43 PM
Which Soviet ace scored most of his victories in Bell fighters?
I can't remember, mind.
The top ace in the P-39 and number four overall was Guards Major Gregoriy Rechkalov, who shot down 50 of his total 56 kills while flying a P-39.
Quoted from: http://www.acepilots.com/planes/p39_airacobra.html
Gen. Sandworm
01-17-2006, 09:24 AM
Dani your turn I think
Well, I'll post one in several hours (when I'll reach home).
Edited: Much, much eralier, here it is:
What was Sichelshnitt?
Hanz Lutz
01-17-2006, 10:29 AM
Well, I'll post one in several hours (when I'll reach home).
Edited: Much, much eralier, here it is:
What was Sichelshnitt?
Maybe The German attack through the Ardennes called Sichelschnitt?
SS Tiger
01-17-2006, 11:14 AM
Is it a spicey German sausage? Just kidding, I think it was an offensive plan that was used in 1940 on the western front?
The German offensive through the Ardennes was called Sichelshnitt, meaning Sickle cut.
They had intended to sever the advancing Allied line, cutting it in two then to capture Antwerp.
It was then planned to sweep north in a curve (like a sickle,) to encircle and destroy four Allied armies.
This according to Hr Schikelgrüber, would force the Allies to negotiate a peace treaty with advantages to Germany.
Erich von Manstein received the position of Chief of Staff of the Army Group A. On February 1st of 1940, he received the command of 38th Infantry Corps (which he successfully commanded in France and was first across the River Seine) and later proposed his own new plan of the attack on France based on his experiences in Poland, where he mastered the technique of Blitzkrieg. He completely ignored originally intended Schlieffen Plan dating back to 1914 and devised his own plan named Operation Sichelschnitt (sickle-stroke/cut/slice). The main idea of his plan was to attack using a concentrated Panzer force through the Ardennes Forest to seize the bridges over the River Meuse before striking eastwards, while outflanking the Maginot Line and cutting off French Armies in the North.First his plan was rejected by the German Army's High Command (OKH), but once it was brought to Hitler's personal attention on February 7th, it was quickly accepted. During the French Campaign, Erich von Manstein was promoted to the rank of General and on June 19th of 1940, after the success of Fall Gelb, he was awarded the Knight's Cross.
Quoted from http://www.achtungpanzer.com/gen8.htm
Any of you, meaning Clauss, SS Tiger or Cuts could post a quiz
Tsolias
01-23-2006, 06:43 AM
Name this device:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v40/spiros/quiz23.jpg
For sure it wasn't Flettner 282 Kolibri
http://www.studenten.net/customasp/axl/plane.asp?cat_id=5&ple_id=507&page=0
Nor Focke Wulf FW 61
http://www.studenten.net/customasp/axl/plane.asp?cat_id=5&ple_id=512&page=0
Didn't found any similar: http://www.helis.com/UpTo50s/
Linked to RN perhaps?
PzKpfw VI Tiger
01-23-2006, 07:43 AM
Who was the Cheif of Air Staff from 1940 to 1945?
Hold your horses Tiger! Tsolias is needed to enlight me (at least). :lol:
Topor
01-23-2006, 08:16 AM
The photo shows the Focke Achgelis Fa-330 Bachstelze, rotary winged kite. Used on U-boats to give an observer a greater view than from the conning tower.
I'm sure that Topor is right!
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4803/helo17602sy.jpg
Tsolias
01-23-2006, 08:50 AM
The photo shows the Focke Achgelis Fa-330 Bachstelze, rotary winged kite. Used on U-boats to give an observer a greater view than from the conning tower.
Well done mate-your turn.
Nice try Dani-love those links!
Topor
01-23-2006, 07:57 PM
What were the small explosive charges, moulded into coloured plaster of paris & spread on the roads of Southern Italy by British SF called?
(I can go to bed for a bit now :lol: )
Tsolias
01-24-2006, 12:50 PM
What were the small explosive charges, moulded into coloured plaster of paris & spread on the roads of Southern Italy by British SF called?
(I can go to bed for a bit now :lol: )
OK wake up please and provise a hint! :x
Explosive coal?
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/3913/05coalbombsm1fd.gif
"The Clam"?
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/1537/05theclamsm5jn.gif
Topor, I see you online now. :D
(I can go to bed for a bit now :lol: )
I think that student-scaley must ask Topor how to deal with the insomnia in the other thread! :lol:
Wake up Topor and enlight us!
Tsolias
01-29-2006, 05:43 PM
Can we walk forward with this please? :evil:
Topor
01-29-2006, 08:26 PM
Oops :oops:
Sorry people but I forgot to check this.
The exploding coal is pretty close.
Clue:
Popski's Private Army
LargeBrew
01-29-2006, 11:06 PM
I seem to remember somthing about mines being diguised as camel dung in North Africa so could the answer be somthing along similar lines but either donkey of horse dung.
Topor
01-30-2006, 12:59 PM
Close enough Largebrew.
They were known as "Mule's Turds, Calabrian", from where they were used.
The fake turds had enough explosive in them to blow a wheel off a truck but the main effect was the deployment of German troops as guards & on security sweeps, rather than at the front where they were needed.
So Topor, you'll allow LargeBrew or you'll post another one?
LargeBrew
01-30-2006, 02:26 PM
Crack on Topor I'm swamped with work at the moment
Till Topor's returning here it is a new one:
Which was the world's biggest submarine(s) in ww2?
Firefly
01-31-2006, 02:57 PM
Japanese Navy I-401?
http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/106425.html
Topor
01-31-2006, 03:01 PM
Japanese "I-400" class, at in excess of 5000tons surface displacement.
I wus busy at work :P
What was the "forgotten army"? (easy this :D )
Trooper
01-31-2006, 03:46 PM
THe British army in Burma?
Topor
01-31-2006, 08:01 PM
Yes
14th Army
You & Firefly can argue about who gets to ask the next one 'cos it's nuffink to do wiv me :P :P
It's very simple. If Trooper wouldn't post in 12 hours, Firefly will goes with the next one.
Trooper
02-01-2006, 02:42 AM
OK here's another easy one.
Name the village in Normandy where Michael Wittman distinguished himself.
Tsolias
02-01-2006, 05:45 AM
OK here's another easy one.
Name the village in Normandy where Michael Wittman distinguished himself.
Villers-Bocage?
Trooper
02-01-2006, 07:38 AM
You got it Tsolias... over to you.
Tsolias
02-01-2006, 09:43 AM
Thanks.
During WWII the British forgery section run by Ellic Howe produced cigarette paper to be dropped on Germany on a number of occasions. These black items were given "H" numbers. Some of those known are H.329 (5000 packs of EFKA cigarette paper), H.381 (EFKA-PYRAMIDEN cigarette paper), H.443 (GIZEH cigarette paper), and H.446 (GIZEH cigarette paper). It is known that in some of these cigarette paper packs, of the 50 sheets, at least 10 were printed.
What was the text about?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v40/spiros/quiiz.jpg
Some of the papers had accurate gen on the German towns and cities that had been bombed, and how many foreign workers were 'entertaining' the hausfrau or fraulein at home.
There were instructions on how to 'swing the lead' to get out of war work or active service.
There were also papers with info on how the German sldrs could desert and which countries would not repatriate them.
Tsolias
02-01-2006, 06:57 PM
There were instructions on how to 'swing the lead' to get out of war work or active service.
Correct enough for me.
Your turn.
Easy one:
Where did the BEF very much mistakenly believe it would hang out it's washing ?
FluffyBunnyGB
02-06-2006, 01:15 PM
On the Siegfried Line?
starts whilstling a little tune ....
Thassit !
Hello FluffyBunnyGB, fire mission...
FluffyBunnyGB
02-07-2006, 03:49 AM
Unusually for me, a question with no pictures (I'm away from home at the moment)
What connects Maj William Martin RM and Aston Martin, the car maker.
Mechanized Warfare
02-07-2006, 07:15 AM
They are both British? :?
Unusually for me, a question with no pictures (I'm away from home at the moment)
What connects Maj William Martin RM and Aston Martin, the car maker.
Is this a really obscure jobbie ?
Temp Capt, acting Maj William Martin RM was a fictional offr who was invented by Brit Int bods in WWII when they dropped the body of a man in RM uniform off the coast of Spain for Op Mincemeat.
A briefcase chained to his wrist contained false invasion plans which the Spanish authorities 'accidentally' opened then passed the gen on to the Germans.
Very James Bond.
When Broccolli wanted a car for 'Goldfinger' his minions originally approached Jaguar for an E-type, but William Lyons of Jag fcuked them off at the high port. Next stop Newport Pagnell & the DB5 drove into the shady world of spies...
Aston Martin has been the James Bond car ever since.
Capt WGS Aston RM commanded 833 Sqn RNAS in WWII while the Aston Martin company made aircraft parts.
All very obscure and cryptic, and therefore eminently suitable for a Radio Four programme, but I suspect the real answer is a lot simpler than my ramblings.
Mechanized Warfare
02-07-2006, 04:28 PM
Unusually for me, a question with no pictures (I'm away from home at the moment)
What connects Maj William Martin RM and Aston Martin, the car maker.
Is this a really obscure jobbie ?
Temp Capt, acting Maj William Martin RM was a fictional offr who was invented by Brit Int bods in WWII when they dropped the body of a man in RM uniform off the coast of Spain for Op Mincemeat.
A briefcase chained to his wrist contained false invasion plans which the Spanish authorities 'accidentally' opened then passed the gen on to the Germans.
Very James Bond.
When Broccolli wanted a car for 'Goldfinger' his minions originally approached Jaguar for an E-type, but William Lyons of Jag fcuked them off at the high port. Next stop Newport Pagnell & the DB5 drove into the shady world of spies...
Aston Martin has been the James Bond car ever since.
Capt WGS Aston RM commanded 833 Sqn RNAS in WWII while the Aston Martin company made aircraft parts.
All very obscure and cryptic, and therefore eminently suitable for a Radio Four programme, but I suspect the real answer is a lot simpler than my ramblings.
Then in that case Maj William Martin RM body was dropped off by one of the planes using Aston Martin's aircraft parts! :lol: Makes sense to me.
FluffyBunnyGB
02-07-2006, 04:53 PM
All the above may well be true, but not the answer for which I sought.
I'll give it another day, then pop the answer up if it has still eluded you all.
Obscure in the extreme though .....
Temp Capt, acting Maj William Martin RM was a fictional offr who was invented by Brit Int bods in WWII when they dropped the body of a man in RM uniform off the coast of Spain for Op Mincemeat.
A briefcase chained to his wrist contained false invasion plans which the Spanish authorities 'accidentally' opened then passed the gen on to the Germans.
Very James Bond.
Oh yes I read about it, it was not very succsessfull though.
Henk
Then in that case Maj William Martin RM body was dropped off by one of the planes using Aston Martin's aircraft parts! :lol: Makes sense to me.
Good idea, but "Maj Martin" was dropped into the sea, (after a short service,) by submarine.
Temp Capt, acting Maj William Martin RM was a fictional offr who was invented by Brit Int bods in WWII when they dropped the body of a man in RM uniform off the coast of Spain for Op Mincemeat.
A briefcase chained to his wrist contained false invasion plans which the Spanish authorities 'accidentally' opened then passed the gen on to the Germans.
Very James Bond.
Oh yes I read about it, it was not very succsessfull though.
Henk
Where did you read about it Henk ?
THE WORLD AT ARMS - The Readers Digest Illustrated History of WW2.
Why mate did you think I made it up?
Henk
No I didn't think you made it up at all boet, I just wondered who had written that it wasn't very successful.
The op saved thousands of Allied lives so I'd have called that a success - of course it depends on which side the writer was on ! :D
FluffyBunnyGB
02-08-2006, 12:44 PM
I shall deploy the answer, otherwise we may be here a while ......
I was fairly sure this would be a Googleproof question :-)
Maj William Martin (real identity kept a secret to protect the privacy of his family etc) was dropped into the sea off the coast of Spain, apparently carrying invasion plans for Sardinia (?) to divert German defences when the real attack would be against Greece (again ?).
The pre-eminent Aston Martin racing driver either side of WW2 was StJohn "Jock" Horsfall, who won the Spa 24 Hrs in 1946 but was sadly killed in 1949 in a racing accident.
There is an annual memorial race for pre-War Aston Martins, the "StJohn Horsfall", usually held at Silverstone.
During WW2, Jock Horsfall worked in some rather secretive government departments, including working on Op MINCEMEAT.
At some point, Maj Martin's body was ferried in the back of a green van across Britain, driven by Jock Horsfall at some speed.
When my final journey comes, I'm hoping that I will have Michael Schumacher driving the hearse :-)
I shall pose an easy question to give someone else a crack now:
How many CENTURION tanks had been shipped to Europe by the end of the War?
George Eller
02-08-2006, 01:27 PM
I shall pose an easy question to give someone else a crack now:
How many CENTURION tanks had been shipped to Europe by the end of the War?
Six were rushed to Germany in May 1945, but hostilities had ceased by the time they arrived.
Hey, it rhymes - almost. :)
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FluffyBunnyGB
02-08-2006, 02:16 PM
My sources say 5 or 6, so that's a "correct" for George.
Your turn sir .....
George Eller
02-08-2006, 05:16 PM
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My sources say 5 or 6, so that's a "correct" for George.
Your turn sir .....
This should be easy. The nickname for the British General known for his development of specialized armoured vehicles, particularly for the Normandy invasion.
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PLT.SGT.BAKER
02-08-2006, 05:28 PM
Hobart's funnies. A.K.A. "the Funnies" named after Percy Hobart. Is that right, George?
George Eller
02-08-2006, 06:20 PM
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Hobart's funnies. A.K.A. "the Funnies" named after Percy Hobart. Is that right, George?
You're getting warmer, but I did ask for the nickname of the General. :wink:
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PLT.SGT.BAKER
02-08-2006, 06:24 PM
hmmmmm? Is it Hobo Hobart?
George Eller
02-08-2006, 06:30 PM
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hmmmmm? Is it Hobo Hobart?
You are correct sir. (I was looking for "Hobo")
Your turn :)
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PLT.SGT.BAKER
02-08-2006, 06:54 PM
The USS Nevada, was used after WWII as a target ship for the bikini atomic experiments, it survived and decommisioned August 29. It was sunk by what near Hawaii July 31, 1948?
George Eller
02-08-2006, 06:54 PM
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hmmmmm? Is it Hobo Hobart?
You are correct sir. (I was looking for "Hobo")
Your turn :)
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They Called Him 'Hobo'
The Little-Known Story of Percy Hobart
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n1p-2_Constable.html
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No I didn't think you made it up at all boet, I just wondered who had written that it wasn't very successful.
The op saved thousands of Allied lives so I'd have called that a success - of course it depends on which side the writer was on ! :D
Nee boet what I meant it was not as successfull as the Allies hoped it whould be. They hoped to get the German secret service to take notice of it, but the agent in Spain did not make a move.
I only meant that it was not as successfull as it was hoped. The book does not take side that is why I bought it, because of that. I do not buy a book that take sides when it comes to history because you must wright out of both point of views and not just from the one side.
Sorry for being off topic.
Henk
Topor
02-08-2006, 08:36 PM
USS Nevada was sunk by a combination of torpedoes & gunfire after OP BAKER(I think that was the nuke test code).
Too contaminated to go for scrap.
What was the heaviest bomb carried by operational, twin engined RAF bombers in WWII & which aircraft carried it?
PLT.SGT.BAKER
02-08-2006, 08:38 PM
USS Nevada was sunk by a combination of torpedoes & gunfire after OP BAKER(I think that was the nuke test code).
Too contaminated to go for scrap.
You are correct.
The heavyest bomb ever carried by a RAF aircraft was the 9.9 tonne / 22000 lb and the 6 tonne Tallboys that was used in the attack on the Tirpitz and also sunk it.
I just thought it would be interesting to know.
Henk
festamus
02-09-2006, 05:10 PM
Stab in the dark - 4,000lb "Cookie" carried by the Mosquito?
Stab in the dark - 4,000lb "Cookie" carried by the Mosquito?
Thank you, but read my post again. I did not say it was the answer to the qestion.
Henk
Topor
02-09-2006, 09:01 PM
Stab in the dark - 4,000lb "Cookie" carried by the Mosquito?
Festamus takes the biscuit :wink:
Your turn matey
Mechanized Warfare
02-17-2006, 06:39 AM
Stab in the dark - 4,000lb "Cookie" carried by the Mosquito?
Festamus takes the biscuit :wink:
Your turn matey
He hasnt answered in about 8 days. :? Is it okay if I post a question?
Topor
02-17-2006, 04:20 PM
OK by me.
Firefly
02-17-2006, 04:42 PM
The heavyest bomb ever carried by a RAF aircraft was the 9.9 tonne / 22000 lb and the 6 tonne Tallboys that was used in the attack on the Tirpitz and also sunk it.
I just thought it would be interesting to know.
Henk
Slight correction, the Heaviest was the Grand Slam, see here:
http://www.bismarck-class.dk/tirpitz/miscellaneous/tallboy/tallboy.html
Mechanized Warfare
02-17-2006, 06:29 PM
OK by me.
Sweet! Alright heres my question!
Name the German general that commanded the 6th army which surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad in February 1943?
Get double points if you can name the general and the panzer army that was fighting in support of that area. :wink:
Panzerknacker
02-17-2006, 09:14 PM
1-Von Paulus.
2- Fighting inside the encirclement was the 24ª Pz Dv, outside the encirclement the 17 Pz Div make an effort to make a hole in the russian attack to help the sieged germans, I think that it was comanded by Frido von Senger und Etterling
Mechanized Warfare
02-17-2006, 10:38 PM
1-Von Paulus.
2- Fighting inside the encirclement was the 24ª Pz Dv, outside the encirclement the 17 Pz Div make an effort to make a hole in the russian attack to help the sieged germans, I think that it was comanded by Frido von Senger und Etterling
First one is right. Second one, not saying its wrong, but im looking for a different answer. 8)
Panzerknacker
02-18-2006, 10:14 AM
Well, I also have my doubts about that, maybe you mean Von Manstein.
Mechanized Warfare
02-18-2006, 03:42 PM
Well, I also have my doubts about that, maybe you mean Von Manstein.
Keyword here is Panzer Army. So who commanded it and what army was it? 8)
festamus
02-19-2006, 06:03 PM
Sorry about my not answering in days. Been rather busy with work and forgot to check back! :)
*feels guilty for holding up progress*
Grishnak
02-27-2006, 01:03 PM
1. Von Paulus
2. 4 Panzerarme, general Hollidt
Mechanized Warfare
03-01-2006, 01:30 PM
1. Von Paulus
2. 4 Panzerarme, general Hollidt
Close enough. Von Paulus is correct and 4th panzer army is also correct. However the 4th panzer army was commanded by General Hoth.........but its all good. Your turn Grishnak.
Grishnak
03-01-2006, 03:49 PM
Ok, something easy for my first try then:
Which allied aircraft was called "Whispering death" by the japanese?
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