OT - WWII quiz

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: Neilster

This is trickier and hopefully hard to Google. What strange method of guiding American air-launched weapons was suggested by a famous researcher towards the end of the Second World War?

Cheers, Neilster

Is Googling allowed or not ? I Googled to find out the Polish Bear story.

Warspite1

Surely it`s googling not allowed? although of course that relies on people`s honesty....

By the way - who were the toothless terrors and why were they called that??

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: warspite1
Surely it`s googling not allowed? although of course that relies on people`s honesty....

Well, I like to Google such history related issues, if I must rely on memory only, I just can forget about answering any quizz here [:D]

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: warspite1
Surely it`s googling not allowed? although of course that relies on people`s honesty....

Well, I like to Google such history related issues, if I must rely on memory only, I just can forget about answering any quizz here [:D]

Warspite1

Yep - that`s the idea [;)]

[Zorachus99]

The attack of the 3rd Polish Bear Regiment has been overlooked for quite too long! 
 
[:D]
 
Now to the local news!
 





A thirsty two year old bear, broke into coolers in a camp at Baker Lake Resort, and used his claws and teeth to open the cans, and so swallow down the beer. But even for a bear 36 cans of beer can be too much……[/align] [/align]




This amazing incident happened in a campground at Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles northeast of Seattle (Washington state in US).
According to reports from rangers (wildlife agents) at the camp, the black bear was sleeping when they found him.
The bear seemed to be sophisticated in his taste. He tried a mass-market Busch beer first, but switched to Rainier Beer, a local ale.

A ranger tried to chase the bear from the campground, but the animal just climbed a tree to sleep it off for another four hours. The rangers managed to chase the bear away, but it returned the next morning. They set a trap some doughnuts, honey and two cans of Rainier Beer as bait. They succeeded with the trick. The hard-drinking bear was captured and moved to another place.[/align]

[Norman42]

Two unanswered questions still standing from my list:


Q: Who was the youngest man serving in the US Navy to win a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, and how old was he?


Q: Who was sent searching Cairo to locate a mansion for Rommel to take as his HQ in his so-to-be-accomplished capture of the city?


I give permission to fully research these 2, as they are fairly obscure, but amazing bits of WW2 trivia.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Norman42

Two unanswered questions still standing from my list:


Q: Who was the youngest man serving in the US Navy to win a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, and how old was he?


Q: Who was sent searching Cairo to locate a mansion for Rommel to take as his HQ in his so-to-be-accomplished capture of the city?


I give permission to fully research these 2, as they are fairly obscure, but amazing bits of WW2 trivia.

Well given permition to research the last two;

1: DAMN! Calvin Graham age 12!!!!


Q: What was the first US warship to be sunk by hostile action during WW2, and who wrote a song about the ship, and what 4man band later made the song even more famous?

[Norman42]

ORIGINAL: terje439


1: DAMN! Calvin Graham age 12!!!!

Correct! An incredible tale. Calvin Graham, age 12, enlisted in the US Navy, and served on the Battleship USS South Dakota, where he earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart before the Navy found out how old this brave young man was.

[Norman42]

ORIGINAL: terje439

Q: What was the first US warship to be sunk by hostile action during WW2, and who wrote a song about the ship, and what 4man band later made the song even more famous?

Destroyer USS Reuben James, sunk in autumn 1941 off Iceland by a UBoat. Woody Guthrie sang a song called "The Sinking of the Reuben James". Not sure about the 4 man band that did it later.

[Neilster]

Could one make an argument for the USS Panay?

Cheers, Neilster

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Norman42

ORIGINAL: terje439

Q: What was the first US warship to be sunk by hostile action during WW2, and who wrote a song about the ship, and what 4man band later made the song even more famous?

Destroyer USS Reuben James, sunk in autumn 1941 off Iceland by a UBoat. Woody Guthrie sang a song called "The Sinking of the Reuben James". Not sure about the 4 man band that did it later.

I'll give you this one. 4man band= The Highwaymen

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

Could one make an argument for the USS Panay?

Cheers, Neilster

Well one could, except that WWII is said to start with the German assault on Poland, making the sinking of the Panay pre WWII.

[Neilster]

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: Neilster

Could one make an argument for the USS Panay?

Cheers, Neilster

Well one could, except that WWII is said to start with the German assault on Poland, making the sinking of the Panay pre WWII.

Officially yes, but many historians now place the real start as early as the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Then there's the school of thought that WW2 was really just the continuation of WW1 with a couple of powers changing sides... [:)]

Cheers, Neilster

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: Neilster

Could one make an argument for the USS Panay?

Cheers, Neilster

Well one could, except that WWII is said to start with the German assault on Poland, making the sinking of the Panay pre WWII.

Officially yes, but many historians now place the real start as early as the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Then there's the school of thought that WW2 was really just the continuation of WW1 with a couple of powers changing sides... [:)]

Cheers, Neilster

Yes, I am aware of these thoughts, and have no problems understanding them, however in the previous post I did mean 1939-1945 as WWII. [:)]

[brian brian]

I think there was a different gunboat sunk before the Panay, I forget the name. Not sure the Panay was actually sunk, just attacked? Just read that last night in my WWII Quiz and Fact book that I found at the library book sale last week. I'll bring y'all some quiz questions to this thread some other time, don't have it with me right now.

[Kaletsch2007]

ORIGINAL: NeBert

Q: Which Pilots managed to score more than 300 officially approved victories during WW2?

Since nobody answered so far, I am gone start with the most famous fighter pilot of the WWII. COL Erich Hartmann shot down 352 planes during more than 1200 flights with 800 contacts. Interesting thing is, he served beginning oct 42, when the russian air force had already recovered and was back in strenght.
He feared the "red pilots" that much, that the russians were even willing to pay a reward of 10000 rubel to the one shooting him down.
Who ever is interested in him, there is a very good book, written by two americans. English name should be "get Hartmann down" or something like that.

[NeBert]

ORIGINAL: Kaletsch2007

ORIGINAL: NeBert

Q: Which Pilots managed to score more than 300 officially approved victories during WW2?

Since nobody answered so far, I am gone start with the most famous fighter pilot of the WWII. COL Erich Hartmann shot down 352 planes during more than 1200 flights with 800 contacts. Interesting thing is, he served beginning oct 42, when the russian air force had already recovered and was back in strenght.
He feared the "red pilots" that much, that the russians were even willing to pay a reward of 10000 rubel to the one shooting him down.
Who ever is interested in him, there is a very good book, written by two americans. English name should be "get Hartmann down" or something like that.

Correct - you´ve got 50% of the answer. So there is only one Name missing ...

[micheljq]

Correct - you´ve got 50% of the answer. So there is only one Name missing ...
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What about Adolf Galland?

[Kaletsch2007]

ORIGINAL: micheljq

Correct - you´ve got 50% of the answer. So there is only one Name missing ...

What about Adolf Galland?

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No, quite well known, but for other things then his victories.
Only around 130 victories, if I am right.
I know, there is another one with 301 victories, also from 52nd fighter regiment, but i have to check the book for the name.

[Kaletsch2007]

I got a challenging one.
On a graveyard 30 km north of Lagos (Portugal), six German Soldiers were buried in 1945.
What happened ?

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: Kaletsch2007

I got a challenging one.
On a graveyard 30 km north of Lagos (Portugal), six German Soldiers were buried in 1945.
What happened ?

They died?