OT - WWII quiz

[chacal83000]

14) What is the largest successful military operation of all time? It was in the largest land theater of the war.
Operation Bagration ?

99) "Tora, Tora, Tora", literally tranlated means, "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger". What did it mean to the Japanese Navy?
That Pearl Harbour bombing is successful ?

[monkla]

81) "Kilroy Was Here" is a famous US quote. Where did it originate?
A US Navy Shipyard?

92) What is the difference between an Elephant and a Ferdinand?
One had a machine gun, the other didn't?

99) "Tora, Tora, Tora", literally tranlated means, "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger". What did it mean to the Japanese Navy?
Surprise had been achieved over Pearl Harbour

[ItBurns]

Hi, your quiz has finally forced me out of lurking status.

26) By the end of the war Canada was making 60% of which Allied machinegun?
I take a stab and say the Bren gun.

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?
I remember that Rommel's 7th used them in France so I imagine they still had them in Russia. Going to guess that the 5th was the third as I remember that the 3 that used Czech equipment in France were consecutively numbered.

40) What was the single most effective weapon that airforces of all nations employed during WWII not counting the atomic bomb?
I'm hoping its not something as obvious as the gun.

48) Which Allied fighter is credited with destroying more Axis aircraft than any other?
I vaguely remember the P-38 being credited with shooting down the most Japanese planes so I'm going with that as a guess.

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?
The British 1st Airbourne?

62) Who did the first combat assault of the Rhine River?
Its either the French in their half hearted 1939 invasion of Germany or the Germans themselves in the assault on the Maginot line.

75) What was the first enemy ship captured on the high seas, by the US Navy, since 1815?
U-505?

80) The Electric Boat Company was the largest builder of what type of ship for the US Navy?
The liberty ships.

96) Where is the last Japanese soldier known to have surrendered?
He wandered out of the Jungle in 1975 in the Phillipines I beleive.


Here's a small one back at you - can you name the congressional medal of honor winner who only joined the army to avoid jail, did not get along well with his fellow air man and only ever flew one combat mission. When the brass arrived to award him his medal he couldn't be found at first because he ticked off the officers again and had been assigned to kp as punishment.

[Plainian]

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?
Well it will either be the 6th/7th or 8th? (ex Leichte Divs) One of the OOB's in the game WIR (War in Russia) shows the 6th as having 2 Bats of Pz35t's so I'll go for that.
42) Which German Panzer Division entered Russia by driving submerged under a river?
50/50 chance here. Its either the 3rd or 4th Pz Dv which crossed R.Bug south of Brest Litovsk. (Part of Guderians 2nd Pz Gruppe) I'll pick the 3rd. I think only some of the tanks were converted not the whole Division.
43) What does the term "cat fur" refer to when talking about German tanks?
Is it the Zimmermit paint?
46) The T-34 was the most produced vehicle by the Soviet Union. What was the Soviet Union's second most produced vehicle?
I'll go for the T-60 light tank.
 
 
 

[brian brian]

I'll go backwards I guess (which is what a lot of these answers are)

Tiger, Tiger, Tiger meant Pearl Harbor had been located and attacked by the Japanese planes.

I think the Lutzow had it's stern blown off by a British submarine off Norway.

The Japanese had a radar set delivered to them from Germany via U-Boat.

The Electric Boat Company built US SUBmarines.

The US Navy sank it's first U-Boat by ramming it.

The Polish Parachute Brigade made a combat assault across the Rhine to link-up with the British 6th Para's bridgehead downstream from Arnhem. September 1944.

Reindeer were also used for transport animals on the Eastern Front.

Was the 'Backhand Manuever' Guderian's turn south to surround Kiev, done under extreme protest?

Kharkov changed hands the most times, but I can't count them.

I would think the Germans first encountered the T-34 on June 22, 1941.


Going back to the first set, it is difficult to recall exact divisions. I would guess either the 2nd or 10th Panzer was outfitted with Czech (t)-38 tanks....a Panzer division formed in the late spring of 1941 via promotions from existing divisions, and not used in June 1941 as it was still forming-up? (Jul/Aug reinforcement phase I guess). Possibly the 20th also. I am not surprised one is the 6th Panzer, which I think was regularly given experimental equipment, such as the little radio-controlled vehicles loaded with explosive charges, used in the assault of Sevastopol in 1942. This is why the 2nd German engineer unit in WiF, the motorized 2-5, is designated '6 Pz'. That could be a good trivia question....what was the first country to use a military robot in combat? Not even sure if that would qualify though.

A German division used the experimental "Schwimmpanzer" devices to cross the Bug River during the first week of Barbarossa. I would guess the 3rd Panzer. This has led to the creation of a WiF counter in the last counter sheet, one I very much look forward to toying with on some victorious German campaign racking up objective hexes in the Indian Ocean or something. Anyone get that thing across a beach yet?

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
61) Besides the horse what other animal was used for transportation on the Eastern Front?

Yak ?

91) What is a hornisse?

A Me410.

That's one. What is the other?

Me210.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
83) Where did the Japanese get a radar unit to use as an example to help them develop their own radar sets?

Singapore?

94) Can you name the five different types of tiger tanks that were used in combat in the war?

Tiger 1 Ausf E
Tiger B (King Tiger)
Are the only real combat version I know about, but I know that there were a later "model" with a bigger engine, as well as some 50 or so Tigers built with the "Porsche"-turret (are those two different versions in this answer?)

95) What is the last year that a version of the PzII was produced?

1944, the Lynx version

97) How many B-25's flew in the Doolittle Raid?

16

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
94) Can you name the five different types of tiger tanks that were used in combat in the war?

Tiger 1 Ausf E
Tiger B (King Tiger)
Are the only real combat version I know about, but I know that there were a later "model" with a bigger engine, as well as some 50 or so Tigers built with the "Porsche"-turret (are those two different versions in this answer?)

Hey, there is also that dreaded JagdTiger, isn't it ?

Edit : Humm, there is also that bizarre hybrid with a Tiger hull and some kind of ugly mortar-like gun, isn't it ?
I'm not too much skilled in tanks. [:D] All the same, except the Panther, king of all Tanks !!! [:D]

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
94) Can you name the five different types of tiger tanks that were used in combat in the war?

Tiger 1 Ausf E
Tiger B (King Tiger)
Are the only real combat version I know about, but I know that there were a later "model" with a bigger engine, as well as some 50 or so Tigers built with the "Porsche"-turret (are those two different versions in this answer?)

Hey, there is also that dreaded JagdTiger, isn't it ?

Edit : Humm, there is also that bizarre hybrid with a Tiger hull and some kind of ugly mortar-like gun, isn't it ?
I'm not too much skilled in tanks. [:D] All the same, except the Panther, king of all Tanks !!! [:D]

Ah, but the Jagdtiger is a tank-destroyer and not a tank [:D]
And a tank chassis with an artillery-piece mounted on it is a self propelled artillery [:D]

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: terje439
Ah, but the Jagdtiger is a tank-destroyer and not a tank [:D]
And a tank chassis with an artillery-piece mounted on it is a self propelled artillery [:D]

Ah, do you think that Mad Russian have excluded them from his question ? He is mad after all [:D].
Tank, TD, SPG, bah, all the same creeping crap [8D].
Tiny insects for aviators [8D].

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
35) What was Churchill referring to when he was talking about "the Beast"?

I'm guessing Communism

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Froonp
Ah, do you think that Mad Russian have excluded them from his question ? He is mad after all [:D].
Tank, TD, SPG, bah, all the same creeping crap [8D].
Tiny insects for aviators [8D].

Well, we'll see, but he'd better [;)]

[terje439]

From JGN

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
91) What is a hornisse?

Nashorn

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
(61) Besides the horse what other animal was used for transportation on the Eastern Front?

Reindeer

[Shannon V. OKeets]

61 - Mules were used extensively. Or is a mule considered a 'horse'?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian


Warspite 1

60) Japanese

Yes, that's correct.

63) Patton`s FUSAG

Yes, that's correct.

73) Spitfires?

Yes, that's correct.

74) Starvation of the population

Yes, that's correct.

76) Indianapolis

Yes, that's correct.

77) 3 - the last of the three, Ted Briggs died not to long ago

Yes, that's correct.

79) Bob Hope

Yes, that's correct. Few Americans realize he was born in England.

84) Lutzow - courtesy of HM Submarine Spearfish

That's not the ship I'm looking for but I'll have to see if that ship qualifies. Sometimes there is more than one strange and similar incident.

88) Eagle Day - the first day of the Battle of Britain

Yes, that's correct.

90) The destruction of convoy PQ17

No, that's not correct.

99) The Japanese had approached Pearl Harbor safely

Not exactly. They knew when they launched the aircraft that they had reached Pearl Harbor safely. That's close but not exactly the right answer.

100) It tipped them over with its wings

Yes, that's correct. The Tempest was fast enough to catch the V-1 and then they flipped them over with their wingtips and made them crash.

Good Hunting.

MR

Warspite1

84) Please let me know which ship you are referring to - Lutzow is the well known one.
90) I think you are wrong on Rosselsprung

[Mad Russian]

ORIGINAL: Plain Ian

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?
Well it will either be the 6th/7th or 8th? (ex Leichte Divs) One of the OOB's in the game WIR (War in Russia) shows the 6th as having 2 Bats of Pz35t's so I'll go for that.
42) Which German Panzer Division entered Russia by driving submerged under a river?
50/50 chance here. Its either the 3rd or 4th Pz Dv which crossed R.Bug south of Brest Litovsk. (Part of Guderians 2nd Pz Gruppe) I'll pick the 3rd. I think only some of the tanks were converted not the whole Division.
43) What does the term "cat fur" refer to when talking about German tanks?
Is it the Zimmermit paint?
46) The T-34 was the most produced vehicle by the Soviet Union. What was the Soviet Union's second most produced vehicle?
I'll go for the T-60 light tank.
 

Well it will either be the 6th/7th or 8th? (ex Leichte Divs) One of the OOB's in the game WIR (War in Russia) shows the 6th as having 2 Bats of Pz35t's so I'll go for that.
42) Which German Panzer Division entered Russia by driving submerged under a river?
50/50 chance here. Its either the 3rd or 4th Pz Dv which crossed R.Bug south of Brest Litovsk. (Part of Guderians 2nd Pz Gruppe) I'll pick the 3rd. I think only some of the tanks were converted not the whole D

Okay then, let's talk Panzer Divisions.....

Fall Weiss (Case White - The Invasion of Poland)

1st Panzer Division
1st Panzer Brigade
1st Panzer Regiment - 39 PzI, 60 PzII, 20 PzIII(37mm), 28 PzIV(75mm short), 8 PzBef
2nd Panzer Regiment - 54 PzI, 62 PzII, 6 PzIII(37mm), 28 PzIV(75mm short), 6 PzBef

2nd Panzer Division
2nd Panzer Brigade
3rd Panzer Regiment - 62 PzI, 78 PzII, 3 PzIII(37mm), 8 PzIV(75mm short), 9 PzBef
4th Panzer Regiment - 62 PzI, 77 PzII, 3 PzIII(37mm), 9 PzIV(75mm short), 11 PzBef

3rd Panzer Division
3rd Panzer Brigade
5th Panzer Regiment - 63 PzI, 77 PzII, 3 PzIII(37mm), 9 PzIV(75mm short), 8 PzBef
6th Panzer Regiment - 59 PzI, 79 PzII, 3 PzIII(37mm), 9 PzIV(75mm short), 8 PzBef
Panzer Lehr Battalion - 20 PzII, 37 PzIII(37mm), 14 PzIV(75mm short), 2 PzBef

4th Panzer Division
5th Panzer Brigade
35th Panzer Regiment - 99 PzI, 64 PzII, 6 PzIV(75mm short), 8 PzBef
36th Panzer Regiment - 84 PzI, 66 PzII, 6 PzIV(75mm short), 8 PzBef

5th Panzer Division
8th Panzer Brigade
15th Panzer Regiment - 72 PzI, 81 PzII, 3 PzIII(37mm), 8 PzIV(75mm short), 11 PzBef
31st Panzer Regiment - 80 PzI, 63 PzII,6 PzIV(75mm short), 11 PzBef

10th Panzer Division
8th Panzer Regiment - 57 PzI, 74 PzII, 3 PzIII(37mm), 7 PzIV(75mm short), 9 PzBef

Panzer Division Kempf
7th Panzer Regiment - 61 PzI, 81 PzII, 3 PzIII(37mm), 9 PzIV(75mm short), 10 PzBef

1st Light Division
6th Panzer Brigade
11th Panzer Regiment - 45 PzI, 75 Pz35(t), 27 PzIV(75mm short), 6 PzBef35(t)
65th Panzer Battalion - 20 PzI, 37 Pz35(t), 14 PzIV(75mm short), 2 PzBef35(t)

2nd Light Division
66th Panzer Battalion - 41 PzI, 42 PzII, 2 PzBef

3rd Light Division
67th Panzer Battalion - 23 PzII, 55 Pz38(t), 2 PzBef38(t)

4th Light Division
33rd Panzer Battalion - 41 PzI, 23 PzII, 5 PzBef


25th Panzer Regiment - 78 PzI, 58 PzII, 6 PzIV(75mm short), 9 PzBef


1st Panzer Battalion/10th Panzer Regiment - 28 PzI, 34 PzII, 3 PzIII(37mm), 9 PzIV(75mm short), 10 PzBef



Fall Gelb (Case Yellow - The Invasion of France May 1940)

1st Panzer Division
1st Panzer Brigade
1st Panzer Regiment - 26 PzI, 49 PzII, 28 PzIII(37mm), 20 PzIV(75mm short), 4 PzBef
2nd Panzer Regiment - 28 PzI, 49 PzII, 30 PzIII(37mm), 20 PzIV(75mm short), 4 PzBef

2nd Panzer Division
2nd Panzer Brigade
3rd Panzer Regiment - 22 PzI, 55 PzII, 29 PzIII(37mm), 16 PzIV(75mm short), 8 PzBef
4th Panzer Regiment - 23 PzI, 60 PzII, 29 PzIII(37mm), 16 PzIV(75mm short), 8 PzBef

3rd Panzer Division
3rd Panzer Brigade - 117 PzI, 129 PzII, 42 PzIII(37mm), 26 PzIV(75mm short), 27 PzBef

4th Panzer Division
5th Panzer Brigade
35th Panzer Regiment - 69 PzI, 50 PzII, 20 PzIII(37mm), 12 PzIV(75mm short), 5 PzBef
36th Panzer Regiment - 66 PzI, 55 PzII, 20 PzIII(37mm), 12 PzIV(75mm short), 5 PzBef

5th Panzer Division
8th Panzer Brigade
15th Panzer Regiment - 51 PzI, 61 PzII, 24 PzIII(37mm), 16 PzIV(75mm short), 15 PzBef
31st Panzer Regiment - 46 PzI, 59 PzII, 28 PzIII(37mm), 16 PzIV(75mm short), 11 PzBef

6th Panzer Division
11th Panzer Regiment - 60 PzI, 118 Pz35(t), 31 PzIV(75mm short), 14 PzBef35(t)


7th Panzer Division
25th Panzer Regiment - 31 PzI, 68 PzII, 91 Pz38(t), 24 PzIV(75mm short) 8 PzBef38(t)

8th Panzer Division
10th Panzer Regiment - 58 PzII, 116 Pz38(t), 23 PzIV(75mm short) 15 PzBef38(t)

9th Panzer Division
10th Panzer Regiment - 30 PzI, 54 PzII, 41 PzIII(37mm), 16 PzIV(75mm short) 12 PzBef

10th Panzer Division
4th Panzer Brigade
7th Panzer Regiment - 22 PzI, 58 PzII, 29 PzIII(37mm), 16 PzIV(75mm short), 9 PzBef
8th Panzer Regiment - 22 PzI, 55 PzII, 29 PzIII(37mm), 16 PzIV(75mm short), 9 PzBef


Operation Barbarossa 22 June 1941


1 Panzer Division
1st Panzer Regt.
43 Pz II
71 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

3 Panzer Division
6th Panzer Regiment
58 Pz II
29 Pz III (37mm gun, Models E & F & G)
81 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
32 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

4 Panzer Division
35th Panzer Regiment
44 Pz II
31 Pz III (37mm gun, Models E & F & G)
74 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

6 Panzer Division
11th Panzer Regiment
47 Pz II
155 Pz35t
30 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

7 Panzer Division
25th Panzer Regiment
53 Pz II
167 Pz38t
30 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

8 Panzer Division
10th Panzer Regiment
49 Pz II
118 Pz38t
30 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

9 Panzer Division
33rd Panzer Regiment
8 Pz I
32 Pz II
11 Pz III (37mm gun, Models E & F & G)
60 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

10 Panzer Division
7th Panzer Regiment
45 Pz II
105 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

11 Panzer Division
15th Panzer Regiment
44 Pz II
24 Pz III (37mm gun, Models E & F & G)
47 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

12 Panzer Division
29th Panzer Regiment
8 Pz I
32 Pz II
109 Pz38t
30 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

13 Panzer Division
4th Panzer Regiment
45 Pz II
27 Pz III (37mm gun, Models E & F & G)
44 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H),
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

14 Panzer Division
36th Panzer Regiment
45 Pz II
15 Pz III (37mm gun, Models E & F& G)
56 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

16 Panzer Division
2nd Panzer Regiment
45 Pz II
23 Pz III (37mm gun, Models E & F & G)
48 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

17 Panzer Division
39th Panzer Regiment
12 Pz I
44 Pz II
106 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
30 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

18 Panzer Division
18th Panzer Regiment
6 Pz I
50 Pz II
99 Pz III (37mm gun, Models E & F & G)
15 Pz III (long barrel 50mm gun, Model G & H)
36 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

19 Panzer Division
27th Panzer Regiment
42 Pz I
35 Pz II
110 Pz38t
30 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

20 Panzer Division
21st Panzer Regiment
44 Pz I
31 Pz II
121 Pz38t
31 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

100 Flamm Panzer Battalion
25 Pz II
42 Flamm Panzers (Pz II models)
5 Pz III

101 Flamm Panzer Battalion
25 Pz II
42 Flamm Panzers (Pz II models)
5 Pz III



Panzer Divisions sent to Russia after Barbarossa started:

2 Panzer Division (arrived September 1941)
3rd Panzer Brigade
63 Pz II,
105 Pz III (long 50mm gun, Model J)
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)

5 Panzer Division (arrived September 1941)
31st Panzer Brigade
55 Pz II
105 Pz III (long 50mm gun, Model J)
20 Pz IV (short 75mm gun, Models D, E & F)


Good Hunting.

MR

[GI_Tom]

62) Who did the first combat assault of the Rhine River?
7th Armored?
 
94) Can you name the five different types of tiger tanks that were used in combat in the war?
I think I can only get 4 of them, Tiger I, Tiger II, King Tiger, Jagdtiger
 
99) "Tora, Tora, Tora", literally tranlated means, "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger". What did it mean to the Japanese Navy?
Surprise achieved and they could launch the second wave.
 
 

[FrednBoise]

The most manueverable plane in WWII was the Northrop P-61 Black Widow.  As a night fighter it had Northrop's "Flaperons" that gave the big plane amazing control.

[paulderynck]

97) 14
 

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: GI_Tom
94) Can you name the five different types of tiger tanks that were used in combat in the war?
I think I can only get 4 of them, Tiger I, Tiger II, King Tiger, Jagdtiger

The 5th is the Sturmtiger.