OT - WWII quiz

[Morval_slith]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

ORIGINAL: flipperwasirish

ORIGINAL: Froonp


An US Armoured Corps. It was a decoy of wooden and inflated ballon tanks in fact.
Defend the Pas de Calais.

Not correct.

Patton had command of the "fake" 1st US Army Group, whose goal was making the Germans believe the landing was coming at the shortest point across the channel at Calais.

This plan had a name but I don't remember it.

It was part of a larger plan called Fortitude North I think. It also involved deception plans for landings in Norway and Denmark (and probably somewhere else).

Cheers, Neilster

Operation Fortitude (only part of the huge deception plan to mask the Normandy invasion) had two components. Fortitude North, directed at Norway, was built around a fictitious British Fourth Army based in Scotland. Patton's "First US Army Group" was part of Fortitude South which was the feint against the Pas de Calais.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

ORIGINAL: terje439

Q1: What name is the Dornier Do 200 more known under?

Q2: What was the primary function of a Sherman Crab?

Q3: Krupp made two 800mm railroad gun that were named what?

Q4: What name was the Me 163 known under?

Q5: What part of the British armed forces was refered to as the Senior Service?

Q5: The Royal Navy

Cheers, Neilster

aye

[Norman42]

Q1 - What was the fate of the HMS Campbeltown?

Q2 - What was known as the "Flying Porcupine"?

Q3 - What were the names of the last 3 factories that the Soviets held in Stalingrad against the Germans in Oct 1942?

[christo]

1) fitted with a delayed action time fuse and used to blow up the largest dry dock for repair of the ? Bismark. Think it was St Nazaire (apologies for the spelling)

2) Short Sunderland flying boat

[Norman42]

ORIGINAL: christo


1) fitted with a delayed action time fuse and used to blow up the largest dry dock for repair of the ? Bismark. Think it was St Nazaire (apologies for the spelling)

2) Short Sunderland flying boat

1) Correct (it was the potential drydock for the Tirpitz that the commando raid on St. Nazaire was targetting).

2) Correct

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Norman42



Q1 - What was the fate of the HMS Campbeltown?

Q2 - What was known as the "Flying Porcupine"?

Q3 - What were the names of the last 3 factories that the Soviets held in Stalingrad against the Germans in Oct 1942?

Warspite1

Q3 There was a tractor factory, Barrikady? amd something else...

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Norman42



Q1 - What was the fate of the HMS Campbeltown?

Q2 - What was known as the "Flying Porcupine"?

Q3 - What were the names of the last 3 factories that the Soviets held in Stalingrad against the Germans in Oct 1942?

Warspite1

Re Q1: What was the code name for the raid on St Nazaire?

[Neilster]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Norman42



Q1 - What was the fate of the HMS Campbeltown?

Q2 - What was known as the "Flying Porcupine"?

Q3 - What were the names of the last 3 factories that the Soviets held in Stalingrad against the Germans in Oct 1942?

Warspite1

Q3 There was a tractor factory, Barrikady? amd something else...

Red October? It's something typically revolutionary like that I think.

Cheers, Neilster

[Neilster]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Norman42



Q1 - What was the fate of the HMS Campbeltown?

Q2 - What was known as the "Flying Porcupine"?

Q3 - What were the names of the last 3 factories that the Soviets held in Stalingrad against the Germans in Oct 1942?

Warspite1

Re Q1: What was the code name for the raid on St Nazaire?

Operation Chariot. I always remember that one because I think the St Nazaire raid was a real classic. It would make a brilliant subject for a new movie with killer CGI etc but it'll never get made due to the lack of Americans involved. Hrrumph!

Cheers, Neilster

[warspite1]

1. What was the ultimate fate of the light cruiser USS Phoenix?
 
2. Which much maligned aircraft was responsible for the sinking of the German cruiser Konigsberg in April 1940?
 
3. How many of the battleships sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor never re-entered service with the USN?
 

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Norman42



Q1 - What was the fate of the HMS Campbeltown?

Q2 - What was known as the "Flying Porcupine"?

Q3 - What were the names of the last 3 factories that the Soviets held in Stalingrad against the Germans in Oct 1942?

Warspite1

Q3 There was a tractor factory, Barrikady? amd something else...

Red October? It's something typically revolutionary like that I think.

Cheers, Neilster

Warspite1

Damn - I think you`re right - should always go for something revolutionary sounding!! Oktober is always a favourite....

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Norman42



Q1 - What was the fate of the HMS Campbeltown?

Q2 - What was known as the "Flying Porcupine"?

Q3 - What were the names of the last 3 factories that the Soviets held in Stalingrad against the Germans in Oct 1942?

Warspite1

Re Q1: What was the code name for the raid on St Nazaire?

Operation Chariot. I always remember that one because I think the St Nazaire raid was a real classic. It would make a brilliant subject for a new movie with killer CGI etc but it'll never get made due to the lack of Americans involved. Hrrumph!

Cheers, Neilster

Warspite1

Correct - and I echo the sentiment. Nothing against the US who at least honour their heroes, but the UK film industry that is too full of right-on left wing intellectuals for whom such deeds of self sacrifice and heroism is sooooooo passee darling. [:@]

[paulderynck]

ORIGINAL: Neilster
Operation Chariot. I always remember that one because I think the St Nazaire raid was a real classic. It would make a brilliant subject for a new movie with killer CGI etc but it'll never get made due to the lack of Americans involved. Hrrumph!

Cheers, Neilster

It was made into a movie: "Attack on the Iron Coast" released in 1968, starring Lloyd Bridges. It was a bit of a turkey.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Correct - and I echo the sentiment. Nothing against the US who at least honour their heroes, but the UK film industry that is too full of right-on left wing intellectuals for whom such deeds of self sacrifice and heroism is sooooooo passee darling.

...and it was made in the UK.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

Operation Chariot. I always remember that one because I think the St Nazaire raid was a real classic. It would make a brilliant subject for a new movie with killer CGI etc but it'll never get made due to the lack of Americans involved. Hrrumph!

Cheers, Neilster

Oh, Neilster. Have faith in Hollywod and American movies. I am sure they can come up with a movie that portraits an epic assault on St. Nazaire. And in the end scene the 2 captured American officers standing ing on HMS Campeldown slay the evil nazists and escape just before the ship blows up.

-Orm

[brian brian]

Here is great WiF applicable quote - "There are only two rules in war. Don't invade Russia. Don't invade China." Who said it?




Didn't Avalon Hill make a game out of the St. Nazaire operation? Or maybe just a scenario of ASL with it's own special board? Somehow I seem to remember this making the cover of the General? Or maybe my memory of 20 year old issues of game magazines is getting fuzzy.

[Espen]

ORIGINAL: Norman42

Q3 - What were the names of the last 3 factories that the Soviets held in Stalingrad against the Germans in Oct 1942?

Wasn't that Red Barricades? That's the name of an ASL-campaign...

[composer99]

Here is great WiF applicable quote - "There are only two rules in war. Don't invade Russia. Don't invade China." Who said it?

 
Stillwell, I believe.

[csharpmao]

ORIGINAL: composer99

Here is great WiF applicable quote - "There are only two rules in war. Don't invade Russia. Don't invade China." Who said it?

Stillwell, I believe.

I think it was Montgomery.

[monkla]

ORIGINAL: brian brian





Didn't Avalon Hill make a game out of the St. Nazaire operation? Or maybe just a scenario of ASL with it's own special board? Somehow I seem to remember this making the cover of the General? Or maybe my memory of 20 year old issues of game magazines is getting fuzzy.

Definitely was a game in its own right. I don't own a copy but I have played it. I seem to recall it was even a solitaire game.

[Sewerlobster]

ORIGINAL: Espen

ORIGINAL: Norman42
Q3 - What were the names of the last 3 factories that the Soviets held in Stalingrad against the Germans in Oct 1942?

Wasn't that Red Barricades? That's the name of an ASL-campaign...

That would have been my guess.