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RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:25 am
by warspite1
Ill just answer #11 myself, SS Nordland is as close as any SS got to becoming warheroes, while SS Totenkopf was probably the worst warcriminals of the entire war.
[/quote] Warspite1
Worse than the 2nd SS - Das Reich? Must have been bad to outstrip Ouradour Sur Glane (French - please excuse my spelling). What did Totenkopf do?
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:26 am
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: composer99
Graf Spee was probably Germany's first significant loss of the war (admittedly, I say this after being at not one but two wedding receptions and their respective flows of alcohol...)... in the long term, though, her scuttling was small potatoes to the immense losses the Wehrmacht suffered on the Eastern Front, although if memory serves (not very well at the moment) they did suffer some respectable losses in Poland (indeed, the Poles in some ways put up a better fight than the French).
Composer 99
Can I ask why you have the cruiser Nigeria as an Avatar?
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:43 am
by morgil
Warspite1
Worse than the 2nd SS - Das Reich? Must have been bad to outstrip Ouradour Sur Glane (French - please excuse my spelling). What did Totenkopf do?
Well, first of all the men was initially formed from concentration camp guards, SS-Totenkopfverbände, that should rank them bottom of all humanity at a start. Then a week after seeing first combat they got the Le Paradis massacre, murdered almost 100 English POV.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:20 pm
by micheljq
ORIGINAL: Froonp
IrishGuards's avatar made me want to do that :
[:D]
Highlanders? Highlanders are known to be inhabitants of the scottish highlands. There are highlanders in Ireland?
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:02 pm
by monkla
ORIGINAL: morgil
Warspite1
Worse than the 2nd SS - Das Reich? Must have been bad to outstrip Ouradour Sur Glane (French - please excuse my spelling). What did Totenkopf do?
Well, first of all the men was initially formed from concentration camp guards, SS-Totenkopfverbände, that should rank them bottom of all humanity at a start. Then a week after seeing first combat they got the Le Paradis massacre, murdered almost 100 English POV.
While I forget the numbers, some of the higher numbered SS divisions, formed in the Balkans. They go down in my mind as the worst. I'm sure many took the opportunity not so much to serve the Germans but to persecute their neighbours, as alas, they have been want to do for generations.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:57 pm
by composer99
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Can I ask why you have the cruiser Nigeria as an Avatar?
Sure. It's the ship my grandfather served on during the war, doing the Murmansk Run. He was a radar officer. Technically in the Royal Canadian Navy though serving on an RN ship (which meant he got paid a fair bit more than his RN equivalents [:)]).
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:02 pm
by brian brian
The Croatian Ustache were worse than any German unit I think.
I read a small paperback war memoir of a survivor from the SS 'Wiking' division, I think it was titled "The Black March". They weren't much different than any other SS unit.
Time for a quiz question ... which WWII warship(s) served in the most different wars?
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:48 pm
by IrishGuards
Well ... certainly a vague and difficult [&:]
Have to say Japs .... but I figure it could be CW or Russia .. or very well the US .. [X(]
Nay sure ... Good ??? [8|]
IG
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:24 pm
by paulderynck
ORIGINAL: brian brian
The Croatian Ustache were worse than any German unit I think.
I read a small paperback war memoir of a survivor from the SS 'Wiking' division, I think it was titled "The Black March". They weren't much different than any other SS unit.
Time for a quiz question ... which WWII warship(s) served in the most different wars?
By date I'd guess the JP Asama or Idzumo, but I thought I'd read somewhere that the Duguay Trouin was much older than 1922. I may be thinking of an RN ship that was captured from France in the 18th century and served until the 20th.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:38 pm
by Froonp
ORIGINAL: micheljq
ORIGINAL: Froonp
IrishGuards's avatar made me want to do that :
[:D]
Highlanders? Highlanders are known to be inhabitants of the scottish highlands. There are highlanders in Ireland?
I know that Irish Guard is Irish, but the colors made me think of Scotland, so I imaginated a Scotish unit [:D]
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:05 pm
by paulderynck
ORIGINAL: Froonp
ORIGINAL: micheljq
ORIGINAL: Froonp
IrishGuards's avatar made me want to do that :
[:D]
Highlanders? Highlanders are known to be inhabitants of the scottish highlands. There are highlanders in Ireland?
I know that Irish Guard is Irish, but the colors made me think of Scotland, so I imaginated a Scotish unit [:D]
But a great many Scots emigrated to Ireland and they could not all have been Lowlanders.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:14 pm
by Shannon V. OKeets
ORIGINAL: paulderynck
ORIGINAL: Froonp
ORIGINAL: micheljq
Highlanders? Highlanders are known to be inhabitants of the scottish highlands. There are highlanders in Ireland?
I know that Irish Guard is Irish, but the colors made me think of Scotland, so I imaginated a Scotish unit [:D]
But a great many Scots emigrated to Ireland and they could not all have been Lowlanders.
Some of the Scots emigrated to Ireland and then later emigrated to the US. A lot of the US music from the Apalachian mountains (Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina) are based on old Scottish and Irish songs.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:31 pm
by patchogue
HMS Victory is still a serving ship in the Royal Navy - so it could be her.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:40 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: brian brian
The Croatian Ustache were worse than any German unit I think.
I read a small paperback war memoir of a survivor from the SS 'Wiking' division, I think it was titled "The Black March". They weren't much different than any other SS unit.
Time for a quiz question ... which WWII warship(s) served in the most different wars?
Warspite1
I think a clue is in order here.....
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:56 pm
by warspite1
[quote]ORIGINAL: patchogue
HMS Victory is still a serving ship in the Royal Navy - so it could be her.
Warspite1
I assumed the question meant "fought" in...but re-reading it - yes you must be right as she has remained in commission since the late 1700`s.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:22 pm
by brian brian
The USN might still have the Constitution on the rolls?
Anyway, let's go with combat action in the most different wars. I don't have a source on this, just a hunch that the answer I have in mind is correct. I don't think it's that hard...
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:30 pm
by wworld7
As far as I know she is still an active duty ship. Even if she is a bit under-armed by today's standards.[:)]
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:05 am
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: brian brian
The USN might still have the Constitution on the rolls?
Anyway, let's go with combat action in the most different wars. I don't have a source on this, just a hunch that the answer I have in mind is correct. I don't think it's that hard...
Warspite1
I would go for the Iowa`s, some or all of which would have seen service in WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War. Many British ships took part in both World Wars, and at least some of the the R-class would have seen service in the 1920`s in support of the White Russians - but that`s only three. So I`ll go for the Iowa`s.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:58 pm
by brian brian
yes, the Iowa and New Jersey were the two I was thinking of...maybe the Wisconsin too. I forget the exact roll call for the Gulf War.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:59 pm
by patchogue
Going back to Victory - ( I think) she must be older than any US ship called Constitution because she's older than the US Constitution!
Obviously I haven't checked because that would be a bad thing! [:D]