OT - WWII quiz

[ezzler]

JeffK was right . Wingate. One of the many eccentric, possibly insane, leaders of WW2.

[JLPOWELL]

What is this for and did it work?

[JLPOWELL]

What was used here? Hint it was much brighter slightly louder and a little heaver than Rush Limbaugh

[JLPOWELL]

Ah Burma...
Gen Frank Messervy
... Ok I admit all I remembered was Frank something in Burma but Google provided the last name quickly enough.[:D] (sorry I just couldn't post 'Frank something')

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: JLPOWELL

What is this for and did it work?

Bomb dropped on the Rhur (?) dams? One of them worked.

[JLPOWELL]

Correct a 'skipping bomb' used for dam busting.[:D]

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

ORIGINAL: JLPOWELL

What is this for and did it work?

Bomb dropped on the Rhur (?) dams? One of them worked.

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: patchogue

Bill Slim?

No, but not too far away.

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

I was born in Trinidad in 1893
I fought in WW1 in France, Palestine, Syria & after the war in Kurdistan.
In Sept 1939 I was promoted as Colonel.

I earned my spurs fighting in an "Out of the way" theatre of war.

I was Officer Commanding of 5 different divisions (NO, not all at the same time)

[JeffroK]

Sorry, JLPOWELL got it right.

Messervy led an adhoc group called "Gazelle Force", based around elements of 5th Indian Infantry Division during the invastion of Eritrea and the attacks on Keren. During the attacks at Keren he was promoted to command 9th Indian Infantry Bde.

He returned to the Western Desert and commanded 4th Indian Infantry Division, 1st & 7th Armoured Divisions, 43rd Indian Armoured Division, 7th Indian Infantry Division, IV Corps and malaya Command. Post war he was the first commander in chief of the Pakistani Army.

Messervy has the record of having his Divisional HQ overrun twice by 2 different Armies but escaping and returning to the battle. First was 7th Armoured Div HQ by DAK in the Sidi Rezegh battles and then by the japanese in the Arakan battle know as the Battle of the Admin Box.

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: JLPOWELL

How about some visual questions (not toooo hard) but tough to Google.

Where is this? And what is the 'Famous Quote" associated with it?

Corregidor.

I've come through, I shall return.

Macarthur

[JLPOWELL]

Correct !!! [:D]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

ORIGINAL: JLPOWELL

How about some visual questions (not toooo hard) but tough to Google.

Where is this? And what is the 'Famous Quote" associated with it?

Corregidor.

I've come through, I shall return.

Macarthur

[paulderynck]

ORIGINAL: JLPOWELL

What was used here? Hint it was much brighter slightly louder and a little heaver than Rush Limbaugh

Nagasaki. 2nd A-bomb on Japan. (seen upside down from normal)

[Extraneous]

Hiroshima - Little Boy
Nagasaki - Fat Man

(both more acurate than the left wing media)

Is the picture right now?

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: JLPOWELL

Correct !!! [:D]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

ORIGINAL: JLPOWELL

How about some visual questions (not toooo hard) but tough to Google.

Where is this? And what is the 'Famous Quote" associated with it?

Corregidor.

I've come through, I shall return.

Macarthur

According to wipipedia
On 17 March, he reached Batchelor Airfield, from which he flew to Alice Springs, and then took the Ghan to Adelaide. His famous speech, in which he said, "I came out of Bataan and I shall return", was first made at Terowie, a small railway township in South Australia on 20 March. Upon his arrival in Adelaide, MacArthur abbreviated this to the now-famous, "I came through and I shall return" that made headlines.[125] Washington asked MacArthur to amend his promise to "We shall return". He ignored the request.

Dugout Doug was looking for a pithy newspaper headline.

[Extraneous]

What ship had the following statistics?

Length Overall: 573'
Extreme Beam: 95'3"
Normal Displacement: Tons: 27,000
Mean Draft: 28'6"
Designed Complement: Officers: 98 Enlisted men: 994

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Armament in 1922:
Main:
(10) 14"/45

Secondary:
(16) 5"/51
(8) 3"/50 AA
Torpedo Tubes: (4) 21" submerged

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Armament in 1942:
Main:
(10) 14"/45

Secondary:
(6) 5"/51
(8) 3"/50 AA
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[warspite1]

The armament gives this away as being a US battleship. But which one?

I am guessing from the displacement and main armament that she would be from the Wyoming, Texas or Nevada class. The US battleships in these three classes were built in pairs and so assume in 1942 there is only one left.

That makes one of the single ships Arkansas or Nevada the likely answer (their sisters (Wyoming and Oklahoma) were TS / sunk respectively by 1942. Both Texas-class remained in service so probably would have had the same upgrade?

Not convinced on the number of guns for the Arkansas, so will plump for USS Nevada.

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

The armament gives this away as being a US battleship. But which one?

I am guessing from the displacement and main armament that she would be from the Wyoming, Texas or Nevada class. The US battleships in these three classes were built in pairs and so assume in 1942 there is only one left.

That makes one of the single ships Arkansas or Nevada the likely answer (their sisters (Wyoming and Oklahoma) were TS / sunk respectively by 1942. Both Texas-class remained in service so probably would have had the same upgrade?

Not convinced on the number of guns for the Arkansas, so will plump for USS Nevada.

Thats where I headed, but have a lot more 5"ers than in the question.

[Extraneous]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

The armament gives this away as being a US battleship. But which one?

I am guessing from the displacement and main armament that she would be from the Wyoming, Texas or Nevada class. The US battleships in these three classes were built in pairs and so assume in 1942 there is only one left.

That makes one of the single ships Arkansas or Nevada the likely answer (their sisters (Wyoming and Oklahoma) were TS / sunk respectively by 1942. Both Texas-class remained in service so probably would have had the same upgrade?

Not convinced on the number of guns for the Arkansas, so will plump for USS Nevada.

Very close but...


Nevada (BB-36), built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts. Keel laid in November 1912; launched in July 1914; completed in March 1916.

Oklahoma (BB-37), built by the New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey. Keel laid in October 1912; launched in March 1914; completed in May 1916.


Nevada class "as-built" design characteristics:

Displacement: 27,500 tons (normal)

Dimensions: 583' (length overall); 95' 3" (extreme beam)

Power plant: 26,500 horsepower geared steam turbines in Nevada; 24,800 horsepower triple-expansion steam reciprocating engines in Oklahoma. Both had two propellers and a 20.5 knot maximum speed

Armament (Main Battery):
Ten 14"/45 guns in two triple and two (superfiring) twin turrets

Armament (Secondary Battery):
Twenty-one 5"/51 guns in single casemate mountings (ten guns on each side of the ship, plus one in the stern); soon reduced to twelve 5"/51 guns.

In the late 1920s, eight 5"/25 anti-aircraft guns were added.



[X(] PS. Who in their right mind puts torpedo tubes in a battleship? World War II Torpedoes had a range of about a thousand yards/meters (1,100 yards) while battleships secondary guns have a much longer range. You would turn the guns to fire them while you would have to turn the ship to fire the torpedoes. [X(]

Clue 2: Yup it's another TORCH ship. I was looking for flagship verification when I found this. [:D]

[warspite1]

So Texas or New York??

[Extraneous]

Since the New York was not modernized until 1925.

In mid-1919, New York transited the Panama Canal to the Pacific, where she was based during the next decade and a half. As a unit of the Battle Fleet, she took an active part in the exercises, drills and gunnery practices that were regularly held in the Pacific and Caribbean. New York underwent modernization in 1925-27, receiving new oil-fired boilers, anti-torpedo bulges on her hull sides, heavier deck armor, up-to-date gunfire control mechanisms and many other improvements that enhanced her combat capabilities. After being transferred to the Atlantic in the mid-1930s, she visited England in 1937 as the U.S. representative to the British Coronation naval review. Over the next three years, the battleship was actively employed as a training ship.


Battleship USS Texas (BB-35) (Battleship Division 5 (BATDIV-5) element) Spotting Squadron 5 (VO-5) 3x Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher Seaplane