OT - WWII quiz

[michaelbaldur]

ORIGINAL: michaelbaldur

ORIGINAL: michaelbaldur

ORIGINAL: michaelbaldur


1.I delivered battalions to some of the most famous divisions

2. i am a regiment
3. my battalions fought mostly in France and north Africa
4. the regiment was nearly totally annihilated after the defeats in Singapore, Crete and France
5. one of the battalions was train as air land troops. and was part of a para drop

6. my battalions in France was not part of the Dunkirk evacuation

7. only small parts of the division escaped France. and had to be reformed in UK

[JeffroK]

I give up.

[michaelbaldur]

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

the 7. and 8 battalion was part of the original 51 highlander division in France

the 1. battalion was part of 14th Brigade on Crete

the 2. battalion was part of 12th Indian brigade at Singapore

all 4 of them were almost completely destroyed

they started the war with only does infantry battalion. the rest of the battalions were reserve or had been converted

the 5. and 6. had been converted to anti tank and the 9. became anti air.

[JeffroK]

3. Fought mostly in France & North Africa Also in Italy, Burma, Malaya, Belgium, Holland & Germany.
4. Regiment was almost totally annihilated -- The loss of a Bn or 2 at seperate times does not mean annihilation, the following list of battle honours shows it was very much alive and kicking
The Second World War– Somme 1940, Odon, Tourmauville Bridge, Caen, Esquay, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Falaise, Dives Crossing, Aart, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Rhine, Uelzen, Artlenburg, North-West Europe 1940, 44–45, Abyssinia 1941, Sidi Barrani, El Alamein, Medenine, Akarit, Diebel Azzag 1942, Kef Ouiba Pass, Mine de Sedjenane, Medjez Plain, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1940–43, Landing in Sicily, Gerbini, Adrano, Centuripe, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Sangro, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Aquino, Monte Casalino, Monte Spaduro, Monte Grande, Senio, Santerno Crossing, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943–45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, North Malaya, Grik Road, Central Malaya, Ipoh, Slim River, Singapore Island, Malaya 1941–42

5Bn & 6Bn converted to Anti Tank Artillery (91 & 93 AT Rgt) in Nov 41 & 6Bn to 54 & 58 LAA Rgts.

5. one of the battalions was train as air land troops. and was part of a para drop ??

Some of these questions are similar to How long is a piece of string?? and are authors interpretations instead of factual.

[brian brian]

found a new one the other day

Name three ways Robert E Lee's name was used in WWII

[terje439]

The M3 Lee would be one (the easy one [:D])

[David Clark]

1. As a proper noun.

2. Allegorically.

3. As part of an inferential argument.

[brian brian]

ha, very good. I'm sure the US Army used #2 and #3 quite often.

But of course I was looking for 3 proper nouns. The tank is the easy one. I'll give you a second - The US Army Quartermaster school in WWII was at Camp Lee, now Fort Lee, Virginia (where else?)

edit: the where else was rhetorical…not a second location named after Lee.

I was also hoping some of the many new members might enjoy this older thread.

[Anonymous]

Wasn't there a Robert E. Lee transport vessel?

[brian brian]

ORIGINAL: csiemers

Wasn't there a Robert E. Lee transport vessel?

there you go. A Type IXC U-Boat sank the Robert E. Lee (I don't think it was a USN ship, civilian), a 'passenger steamer', about 45 miles off the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico. About 45 passengers of 400-some drowned. A few minutes later the U-Boat was sunk in turn by a USN P-3 aircraft with a loss of all hands. The U-Boat wreck was recently discovered and there is an interesting set of new underwater photos circulating on the web right now.

[brian brian]

here is a sad one - what city suffered the most civilian casualties in WWII?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

here is a sad one - what city suffered the most civilian casualties in WWII?

warspite1

I'd be staggered if its not Tokyo.

[brian brian]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: brian brian

here is a sad one - what city suffered the most civilian casualties in WWII?

warspite1

I'd be staggered if its not Tokyo.

A good guess, but no.

[Centuur]

Leningrad. That's to say: if you also include casualties due to hunger.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: brian brian

here is a sad one - what city suffered the most civilian casualties in WWII?

warspite1

I'd be staggered if its not Tokyo.

A good guess, but no.

warspite1

Well I'm staggered then [;)] I am assuming you are talking 1939-45.

[brian brian]

I would have guessed Tokyo as well, until recently.

Centuur has it correct however - a Wikipedia footnote explains it:

Walzer, Michael (1977). Just and Unjust Wars. p. 160. ISBN 978-0465037070. More civilians died in the siege of Leningrad than in the modernist infernos of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, taken together.


Note the "taken together" there - Leningrad civilians suffered between one million and 1.5 million fatalities, largely from starvation though with plenty of aerial bombing and artillery shelling thrown in as well. Hitler planned to raze the city to the ground, after killing ALL of the inhabitants.

[warspite1]

Well that was dumb [8|]. As soon as I read that question I immediately thought bombing. Didn't give any other factor a thought. When you see it the answer is so obvious its ridiculous - what a klutz ....

[brian brian]

Well, that is what makes it an interesting trivia question, thought the topic is decidedly non-trivial. And relatively unknown.

[Centuur]

Tokyo doesn't even come in second. Warsaw comes in second place, with almost 400.000 casualties, mostly Jews, if one looks at confirmed figures. However, it may be that some Chinese cities even had higher casualty rates during the war, but there are no reliable figures from that country, only estimated ones.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Centuur

Tokyo doesn't even come in second. Warsaw comes in second place, with almost 400.000 casualties, mostly Jews, if one looks at confirmed figures. However, it may be that some Chinese cities even had higher casualty rates during the war, but there are no reliable figures from that country, only estimated ones.

warspite1

No, it comes in first..... if you are stupid enough to only think in terms of strategic bombing, which is what I did.