OT - WWII quiz

[Mad Russian]

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30) Which American fighter was shown to be the most maneuverable during test trials at the end of the war?

I am guessing on an early war fighter. Brewster Buffalo?

No, the Brewster Buffalo was known to be fairly unmaneuverable actually.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Shannon V. OKeets]

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30) Which American fighter was shown to be the most maneuverable during test trials at the end of the war?

I am guessing on an early war fighter. Brewster Buffalo?

No, the Brewster Buffalo was known to be fairly unmaneuverable actually.

Good Hunting.

MR

44) Patton?

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
30) Which American fighter was shown to be the most maneuverable during test trials at the end of the war?

Grumman F6F Hellcat ?

[composer99]

Easy question: what was the previous successful cross-Channel opposed landing prior to the Allied landings on June 6 1944?

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian

ORIGINAL: Orm

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30) Which American fighter was shown to be the most maneuverable during test trials at the end of the war?

I am guessing on an early war fighter. Brewster Buffalo?

No, the Brewster Buffalo was known to be fairly unmaneuverable actually.

Good Hunting.

MR

Then I try with another early fighter. P-40?

Just a note about the Brewster Buffalo. It is my imprsssion that the Buffalo got its bad reputation because it was less manuverable than the Zero. But one must remember that the Japanese Zero was one on the most agile planes of WWII.

[Orm]

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What aircraft was called "Whispering Death"?

The F4U Corsair.

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MR

No, not the Corsair.

[Froonp]

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What aircraft was called "Whispering Death"?

The F4U Corsair.

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MR

No, not the Corsair.

The F4U Corsair is the Whistling Death.
Whispering Death is the Bristol Beaufighter.

[Froonp]

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The F4U Corsair is the Whistling Death.
Whispering Death is the Bristol Beaufighter.

And the WW2 "Widow Maker" is ?

[Froonp]

And who Mad Russian's avatar really is ?

[Orm]

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ORIGINAL: Orm

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The F4U Corsair.

Good Hunting.

MR

No, not the Corsair.

The F4U Corsair is the Whistling Death.
Whispering Death is the Bristol Beaufighter.

Indeed.

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Orm
Just a note about the Brewster Buffalo. It is my imprsssion that the Buffalo got its bad reputation because it was less manuverable than the Zero. But one must remember that the Japanese Zero was one on the most agile planes of WWII.

The Finnish made excellent use from the Buffalo.

But they also made excellent use of some mediocre fighters too, such as the Morane MS.406 French Fighter, and the Fiat G.50 Italian Fighter. I wonder how they became so good riding such bad planes.

Maybe their opponents were poor quality russian pilots, I don't know. The russians had the I-16 type 24 that was a superior plane compared to the French & Italian fighters.

Anyone here with a clue as to how the Finns dominated the Russians so much ?

[Froonp]

Who was the "one-shot lighter" ?

[Mad Russian]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

Who was the "one-shot lighter" ?

Who was? Or what was?

The Sherman was known as the one shot lighter, the Ronson and the Tommy Cooker because it caught fire after being hit almost anywhere. There is a documented case of a Sherman catching fire after being hit on the drive sprocket.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

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ORIGINAL: Orm
Just a note about the Brewster Buffalo. It is my imprsssion that the Buffalo got its bad reputation because it was less manuverable than the Zero. But one must remember that the Japanese Zero was one on the most agile planes of WWII.

The Finnish made excellent use from the Buffalo.

But they also made excellent use of some mediocre fighters too, such as the Morane MS.406 French Fighter, and the Fiat G.50 Italian Fighter. I wonder how they became so good riding such bad planes.

Maybe their opponents were poor quality russian pilots, I don't know. The russians had the I-16 type 24 that was a superior plane compared to the French & Italian fighters.

Anyone here with a clue as to how the Finns dominated the Russians so much ?

Planes are like tanks. They are a balance of power, maneuverability, firepower and speed.

To see how a plane stacks up just looking at them sitting on the ground is pretty easy.

Big engine? Fast and powerful.

Long thin wings? Very maneuverable.

Big engine, short stubby wings? Fast but not maneuverable. That's the category of the Brewster Buffalo. Most successful American fighters fit that description. The P-47, F4F, F6F, F4U, F8F, P-36, Brewster Buffalo...etc...

A few tried to be maneuver fighters instead of speed/power fighters. The P-39, P-40 and P-51 are the most notable of those. Interestingly the P-51 wasn't made for the USAAF but for the RAF whose combat planes fit that model much more closely than USAAF fighters did.

Why the Finns did better is two fold.

1) They were better trained. The VVS pilots were in about the same state of training and readiness and the Soviet tank forces were.

2) They had better tactics. The Soviet pilots with little training were able to do only rudimentary combat formations the Finns on the other hand were well trained and very good in combat.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

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Overlord.

No, Operation Overlord was the largest amphibious operation of all time, and of course it was successful, but far from the largest land operation, successful or not.

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MR

"The Great Patriotic War"?



GSB

As a theater of war that would absolutely be correct. From a Soviet point of view and since you used the Soviet term for the Eastern Front I'm thinking that's the direction you're coming from.

However, the Great Patriotic War is not a single operation but many. An operation covers at most a few months. Operation Barbarossa covered only 6 months.

The most successful operation in WWII covered only a few weeks. Not years.

Hope that helps a little.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

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Lockheed P-38 Lightning with combat flaps ?

No, it was not the P-38.



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MR

The Hellcat?


GSB

Nope it wasn't the Hellcat either.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

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Easy question: what was the previous successful cross-Channel opposed landing prior to the Allied landings on June 6 1944?

Operation Jubilee at Dieppe. Depending on what you consider to be successful. The landings were successful. Staying on the continent proved more difficult.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

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I am guessing on an early war fighter. Brewster Buffalo?

No, the Brewster Buffalo was known to be fairly unmaneuverable actually.

Good Hunting.

MR

44) Patton?

Yes, that's correct.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Here are the original 50 questions and the correct answers so far.

1) Which Soviet tank during WWII caused Soviet infantry to flee from it in "tank terror"?

2) What was Patton's Headquarters known as?

3) What German vehicle was known as Guderian's Duck? JgPzIV

4) Which were the only two fighter planes in the IJN to fly off Japanese carriers? A4M Claude and A4M Zero.

5) What WWII AFV was known as the Land Battleship?  T-35 Soviet tank. Had five turrets and a ten man crew.

6) Which units used cricket makers for unit recognition? US Airborne Divisions during the D-Day night drop.

7) Which was the highest scoring American tanker? What was the name of the tank he rode in?

8) Which Allied nation was cannibalizing and decommissioning divisions to keep it's armies fighting in the field to the end of the war? Britain. There was an extreme shortage of manpower in Britain by mid 1944.

9) What aircraft was know as String Bag? The British biplane torpedo bomber Swordfish.

10) During the night raid on the Scope, Moehne and Eder dams on the Ruhr River. special bombs were made that had to be dropped from an exact speed and height. How did the British determine the height of their aircraft off the water during the night raid? Two lights were placed on the aircraft pointing down at an angle. When the two lights merged into one on the water the aircraft was at the correct height.

11) What was the first IJN carrier sunk during the war? Shoho. The carrier was hit by thirteen bombs, seven torpedoes and an aircraft.

12) What are the two places known in WWII as the most bombed place on earth? One was bombed by the Axis, the other was bombed by the Allies. Malta is the place most bombed by the Axis. What is the place most bombed by the Allies?

13) Was the German tank force destroyed during the Battle of Kursk? No, it was barely affected. The Soviets told a lie about the damage done to the German tank force. They lost an entire tank army worth of tanks on the southern shoulder of the Kursk salient while only containing German armored thrusts.

14) What is the largest successful military operation of all time?

15) What is the largest unsuccessful military operation of all time? Operation Barbarossa is the largest military operation in world history. It was however, unsuccessful in achieving it's goal of defeating the Soviet Union.

16) Which American general thought the 75mm gun armed Sherman was big enough to win the war without up-gunning it? Patton.

17) Which Allied tank was so successful that they tried to camouflage it's appearance. German gunners were ordered to fire at it first. The British Firefly. British tankers did everything possible to disquise the barrel, including planting it different colors and adding fake muzzle brakes 2/3 of the way down the barrel.

18) Which Allied AFV had the main gun pointing over the rear of the vehicle instead of facing forward? The British Archer tank destroyer.

19) Who recommended that the T-34 be sent back to Germany and put into production? Guderian

20) The US, British and German aces are all well known. What about some of the others though, who was Italy's highest scoring ace in WWII and what was his score?

21) What is the largest ship ever sunk by a submarine? IJN Carrier Shinano. This was the third Yamoto class battleship and was converted to a carrier. She was sent to sea without her bulkheads and watertight damage control systems working. Six torpedoes from Archerfish sealed the carriers doom.

22) Who in the German Army was simply known as "The Count"?

23) Which country entered WWII with a rifle it thought too ineffective, stopped production of the weapon, then restarted it's production which then lasted to the end of the war? Italy.

24) How many Soviet Tank and Mechanized Corps were there from 1942 to the end of the war? Counting Guards units as well.

25) The United States had how many cavalry divisions during WWII?

26) By the end of the war Canada was making 60% of which Allied machinegun?

27) Where is Hangman's Hill? At Monte Cassino, Less than 1000 yards to the southeast of the monastery.

28) What did the Soviets call the M3 Lee tank supplied to them as Lend Lease? A grave for seven brothers.

29) Which German fighter aircraft had an engine and propeller at both the front and the back of the aircraft? The Dornier 335 Pfeil.

30) Which American fighter was shown to be the most maneuverable during test trials at the end of the war?

31) What was the largest operational tank in WWII? Meaning, which was the largest tank ever ordered into combat in WWII.  Panzer Maus. There were two prototypes of the Maus at Kummersdorf to the southeast of Berlin. One was a vehicle mockup without a gun. The other was fully functional. The fully functional vehicle was ordered to move to Berlin and defend the capital. The Soviets claim to have knocked it out in combat and the Germans claim it broke down. Either way the Soviets have the vehicle at Koblinka Tank Museum I believe.

32) What German city did Eisenhower consider just a "geographic location"? Berlin. After the Yalta conference Berlin was in the Soviet zone and Eisenhower did not consider it an objective any longer.

33) What did the term "rock soup" mean?

34) What two hammer blows were triggered on the anniversary of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union? They were the same year and were set to compliment each other. Operation Overlord followed 16 days later by Operation Bagration. Operation Overlord was timed to draw German reinforcements to counter it and then have the Soviet offensive hit Army Group Center.

35) What was Churchill referring to when he was talking about "the Beast"?

36) Who was Finland's highest scoring ace?

37) What does the word Currahee mean and who used it as a battlecry? During their training, the US 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne were ordered to climb Mt Currahee (Cherokee for "We Stand Alone"); the name of this mountain became their battlecry.

38) Which German Panzer Divisions used the Pz35(t) as their main equipment during the fighting in Russia? 6th Panzer is one of them...what are the others?

39) What American piece of equipment soon came to be feared by Allied tankers after it's introduction into combat? The Panzerschrek was a copy of the American bazooka which the Germans captured in Tunisia.

40) What was the single most effective weapon that airforces of all nations employed during WWII not counting the atomic bomb?

41) Who was the first foreign soldier to capture an intact Soviet T-34 tank and drive it?

42) Which German Panzer Division entered Russia by driving submerged under a river?

43) What does the term "cat fur" refer to when talking about German tanks?

44) When called a "Lucky Bastard" which American general replied, "I'd rather be lucky than good. Good will only take you so far but luck will take you all the way." General Patton.

45) Which country used dogs to attack tanks? Russia. The mine dogs were trained to run under tanks to get fed. The Soviets then strapped an antitank mine to their back. When they ran under a tank the mine was detonated. In combat though the dogs got confused and scared when shot at and ran back to Soviet lines. Then they went and hid....under Soviet tanks.

46) The T-34 was the most produced vehicle by the Soviet Union. What was the Soviet Union's second most produced vehicle?

47) The British tried to deploy the Mosquito aircraft to the Pacific theater. Why was it called back?

48) Which Allied fighter is credited with destroying more Axis aircraft than any other?

49) Which is the only unit to have fought at Normandy, Arnhem, Aachen, the Huertgen Forest, in the Ardennes offensive, at the Reichswald and in the Ruhr Pocket?

50) What plane did the Japanese call the "Whistling Death"? The F4U Corsair.

We have a ways to go.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Shannon V. OKeets]

12) What are the two places known in WWII as the most bombed place on earth? One was bombed by the Axis, the other was bombed by the Allies. Malta is the place most bombed by the Axis. What is the place most bombed by the Allies?

14) What is the largest successful military operation of all time?

12 - Bremen?

14 - Napoleon's 1806 invasion of Austria?