OT - WWII quiz

[brian brian]

I read that the Me-109E at 36,000 was the winner. That source was written in the early 80s when Russian figures were probably just estimates...I would imagine that Soviet figures were downplayed lest it look a little worse for them from a propaganda point of view of needing so many planes, and to conceal their production capabilities. Probably the current figures are from post-Soviet research. ???


Anyway I'm slightly amazed at the somewhat current line of thinking in the game that there are too many airplane counters on the board. (New optional to make Pilots cost 3).


Here is a new one...what is the first WiF city to be re-captured from the Germans?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

I read that the Me-109E at 36,000 was the winner. That source was written in the early 80s when Russian figures were probably just estimates...I would imagine that Soviet figures were downplayed lest it look a little worse for them from a propaganda point of view of needing so many planes, and to conceal their production capabilities. Probably the current figures are from post-Soviet research. ???


Anyway I'm slightly amazed at the somewhat current line of thinking in the game that there are too many airplane counters on the board. (New optional to make Pilots cost 3).


Here is a new one...what is the first WiF city to be re-captured from the Germans?

Warspite1

Aachen

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: brian brian
Here is a new one...what is the first WiF city to be re-captured from the Germans?

Warspite1

Aachen

I'd rather said a city in Russia.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: brian brian
Here is a new one...what is the first WiF city to be re-captured from the Germans?

Warspite1

Aachen

I'd rather said a city in Russia.

Warspite 1

Sorry - I`ve just re-read the question and realised I don`t understand it?? I answered a question I thought I was being asked...if you know what I mean [X(]

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

I read that the Me-109E at 36,000 was the winner. That source was written in the early 80s when Russian figures were probably just estimates...I would imagine that Soviet figures were downplayed lest it look a little worse for them from a propaganda point of view of needing so many planes, and to conceal their production capabilities. Probably the current figures are from post-Soviet research. ???


Anyway I'm slightly amazed at the somewhat current line of thinking in the game that there are too many airplane counters on the board. (New optional to make Pilots cost 3).


Here is a new one...what is the first WiF city to be re-captured from the Germans?

Can it have been Kalinin? I know the Germans was close to Moscow before the Soviet counteroffensive but I am not sure if they captured it before as their main advance was south of the city.

-Orm

[monkla]

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

I read that the Me-109E at 36,000 was the winner. That source was written in the early 80s when Russian figures were probably just estimates...I would imagine that Soviet figures were downplayed lest it look a little worse for them from a propaganda point of view of needing so many planes, and to conceal their production capabilities. Probably the current figures are from post-Soviet research. ???


Anyway I'm slightly amazed at the somewhat current line of thinking in the game that there are too many airplane counters on the board. (New optional to make Pilots cost 3).


Here is a new one...what is the first WiF city to be re-captured from the Germans?

Can it have been Kalinin? I know the Germans was close to Moscow before the Soviet counteroffensive but I am not sure if they captured it before as their main advance was south of the city.

-Orm

Rostov?

It was recaptured before the Soviet counteroffensive around Moscow.

[brian brian]

Not Kalinin...not Rostov. You're getting warm though.

[Froonp]

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Not Kalinin...not Rostov. You're getting warm though.

Stalingrad ?

[monkla]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: brian brian

Not Kalinin...not Rostov. You're getting warm though.

Stalingrad ?

This is not a trick question is it???? [;)]

Since you didn't like Rostov and I can't think of any other Russian cities recaptured that early, I'll try Baghdad. It was captured off a pro-German government!

[warspite1]

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Not Kalinin...not Rostov. You're getting warm though.

Stalingrad ?

This is not a trick question is it???? [;)]

Since you didn't like Rostov and I can't think of any other Russian cities recaptured that early, I'll try Baghdad. It was captured off a pro-German government!

Warspite1

Stavropol?

[Norman42]

Narvik

[cockney]

What happend after crossing the Volturno in October 1943, and the 56th entered the town of Calvi Vecchia?

[Frederyck]

ORIGINAL: Norman42
Narvik

Narvik is not a city in WiF.

[Frederyck]

ORIGINAL: cockney

What happend after crossing the Volturno in October 1943, and the 56th entered the town of Calvi Vecchia?

I had no idea at all! But Wikipedia is my friend... [:D]

[brian brian]

Smolensk, August 1941.

Kind of a trick question, since that was only temporary, but that's how the question came up in the WWII Quiz Book.

[cockney]

ORIGINAL: Frederyck

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What happend after crossing the Volturno in October 1943, and the 56th entered the town of Calvi Vecchia?

I had no idea at all! But Wikipedia is my friend... [:D]

a bit of a cryptic clue, G.I. Joe saved the day.

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: cockney

What happend after crossing the Volturno in October 1943, and the 56th entered the town of Calvi Vecchia?

Sergent Arturo Brezzio broke his leg ? [:D]

[Grapeshot Bob]

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Stalingrad ?

This is not a trick question is it???? [;)]

Since you didn't like Rostov and I can't think of any other Russian cities recaptured that early, I'll try Baghdad. It was captured off a pro-German government!

Warspite1

Stavropol?

Tobruk?

[Ohio Jones]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

The HMS Prince of Wales carried Churchill to Newfoundland to meet Roosevelt, I believe.

Correct. Its tragic end off Indonesia (IIRC) would put the final nail in the coffin for BB actions without air cover. Should be an interesting counter description in MWF.

[Ohio Jones]

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

I'll take an educated guess. Ian Flemming (who wrote the James Bond novels and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and someone else. I'm not sure who the other person was. Did it happen at Camp X?


GSB

Fleming is correct, and Camp X is also correct. Fleming visited Camp X (STS103), near Oshawa, Ontario, to audit their training in preparation for his own work in Britain. SOE was the model for his take on British Intelligence. (NB: While Fleming had stated that he'd named his character for the author of a birding book, his flat inToronto was just down the road from St. James-Bond United Church!)

While at Camp X Fleming struck up a friendship with the Propaganda instructor, Major Paul Dehn, who went on to write (with Richard Maibaum) the screen adaptation for GOLDFINGER. Dehn also penned NIGHT OF THE GENERALS, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD and several PLANET OF THE APES films. Two years before his death, he won an Oscar for 1974's adaptation of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS.