OT - WWII quiz

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Kaletsch2007

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: paulderynck



Q2 Grant and Sherman?

Q3 The plan to use an iceberg as a huge floating aircraft carrier?

Q2: Well you are kinda close [;)] but not on the mark.
Q3: Were would the inflated rubber be used? So nope.

Q2 If that was close, let me try. Washington and Lee ?
Q3 Put the rubber on roofs of buildings ?

Q2 You nailed one but missed by 100 years on the other [;)]
Q3 Nah, as stated, think HUGE [:D]

Oh, and by HUGE, I mean really really really really HUUUUGE!

[cockney]

Gen E Lee and 'Stonewall' Jackson?

heard that Spike Milliagan and Harry Secombe wanted to be build a full size floating UK to fool the Germans. It couldn't be that could it?

[Neilster]

Re Gallipoli...the movie was very good but there were many factual errors and it did have an anti-British slant.

The campaign has now achieved mythic status in Australia and New Zealand as a glorious defeat and people look for some excuse as to why. Bungling British officers are an easy target. I actually agree that it was a bold strategic move but the whole thing was poorly planned and executed.

Cheers, Neilster

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: cockney

Gen E Lee and 'Stonewall' Jackson?

heard that Spike Milliagan and Harry Secombe wanted to be build a full size floating UK to fool the Germans. It couldn't be that could it?

ding ding ding.

Correct on both.
Actually did not think Q3 would be solved that fast. It was indeed suggested to build a full size floating UK to fool German aviators.

[composer99]

Not too far-fetched an idea... I believe the Germans built replicas (perhaps not full-sized) of some cities to fool RAF night bombers.

[terje439]

Well a city is one thing (espesially against night bombing) however a fake floating UK? And were would you place it, it is 1:1 in size...

[NeBert]

ORIGINAL: composer99

Not too far-fetched an idea... I believe the Germans built replicas (perhaps not full-sized) of some cities to fool RAF night bombers.

I think fake cities were also used during the battel of britain (by the british) and it worked well.

[Norman42]

ORIGINAL: terje439

a fake floating UK? And were would you place it, it is 1:1 in size...

I can just see the communique:

UBoat Command - "Mein Fuhrer, UBoat Kapitan Prien claims to have sunk the entire United Kingdom with 1 torpedo!"

Hitler - "..."

[Ohio Jones]

What two famous film scribes met while doing intelligence work in Canada?

[terje439]

Q1: What famous American writer formed a partisan group in France after D-Day?

Q2: Why was the person in Q1 upset with his wife during operation Overlord?

Q3: When talking WW2, what was a Goliath?

[cockney]

Q3 a Goliath was a German romote controled mini tank filled with expolosives

[terje439]

correct

[panzers]

ORIGINAL: terje439

Q1: What famous American writer formed a partisan group in France after D-Day?

Q2: Why was the person in Q1 upset with his wife during operation Overlord?

Wiliam Shirer?

Q3: When talking WW2, what was a Goliath?

[jesperpehrson]

ORIGINAL: terje439

Q1: What famous American writer formed a partisan group in France after D-Day?

Ernst Hemmingway?

[terje439]

Sorry Panzers, and correct Capitan. It was Ernest Hemmingway.

[jesperpehrson]

hehe that was a lucky guess! I remember him fighting in Spain during the civil war so why not in France?

[micheljq]

Someone has hearded about a canadian ace pilot of WWI who did fly his airplane below the Arc of Triumph in Paris when the allies were doing the parade to celebrate the victory and the end of WWI? without permission.

[Ohio Jones]

ORIGINAL: micheljq

Someone has hearded about a canadian ace pilot of WWI who did fly his airplane below the Arc of Triumph in Paris when the allies were doing the parade to celebrate the victory and the end of WWI? without permission.

Was it Billy Bishop? And is it apocryphal, or can it be attributed to a reliable source?

[terje439]

I will answer my remaining question as noone has even guessed.

During Operation Overlord both Ernest Hemingway and his wife both worked as a corrospondent for different newspapers. During D-Day Ernest was not allowed ashore, but his wife dressed up as a Red Cross nurse and was thus allowed ashore, where she would start writing and taking pictures. This was something her husband did not forgive her that easily.


Q1: What tank is this?





Q2: What new assignment did Himmler recieve at November 26th 1944?

Q3: The British tank A22 or Infantry Tank MArk IV was also known under what name?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: terje439

I will answer my remaining question as noone has even guessed.

During Operation Overlord both Ernest Hemingway and his wife both worked as a corrospondent for different newspapers. During D-Day Ernest was not allowed ashore, but his wife dressed up as a Red Cross nurse and was thus allowed ashore, where she would start writing and taking pictures. This was something her husband did not forgive her that easily.


Q1: What tank is this?

Warspite1

Panther - Panzer MkV