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ORIGINAL: Stavka_lite

Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?
Son of a Bitch 2nd class

You are indeed correct, I've just never heard that one before. Hat of to you for this [&o]

Some Qs I've been mailed, since they are good Qs indeed I'll post them here;

(Q1) What was the largest naval battle of the Spanish Civil War?

(Q2) Why should the Spanish Nationalist cruiser Baleares not be included in WiF after March 1938?

(Q3) What were Japanese Aircraft carriers and seaplane carriers mostly named after?

(Q4) If the IJN battleship Fuso's name means "Land of Divine Mulberry Trees" what is this also an old name for?

(Q5a) Who is the Peruvian cruiser Coronel B named after (no its not the football team or the collage)?

(Q5b) What is Coronel B's most famous saying?

ORIGINAL: terje439

Some Qs I've been mailed, since they are good Qs indeed I'll post them here;

(Q1) What was the largest naval battle of the Spanish Civil War?

(Q2) Why should the Spanish Nationalist cruiser Baleares not be included in WiF after March 1938?

(Q3) What were Japanese Aircraft carriers and seaplane carriers mostly named after?

(Q4) If the IJN battleship Fuso's name means "Land of Divine Mulberry Trees" what is this also an old name for?

(Q5a) Who is the Peruvian cruiser Coronel B named after (no its not the football team or the collage)?

(Q5b) What is Coronel B's most famous saying?

Warspite1

Q3. Castles and Dragons - I can never remember which ships are which but I think of those carriers that took part in Pearl Harbor, there was Flying Dragon, Green Dragon, Red Castle and I`m sure I recall reading that Kaga means Increased Joy - or was I reading an edition of Asian Babes??

Churchill wanted Vienna, definitely, and possibly Prague as well, to beinside the Western Allied stop line, I thought.

ORIGINAL: brian brian

Churchill wanted Vienna, definitely, and possibly Prague as well, to beinside the Western Allied stop line, I thought.

Vienna is a long way East and it was encircled by the Soviets while the Allies were barely over the Rhine. Prague was a possibility but the Bohemian quadrilateral contained Army Group Centre, one of the last coherent concentrations of fighting strength the Germans possessed, commanded by the fanatical Schoerner.

Expectations of what was possible for the Western Allies fluctuated wildly in the last year of the European war. They soared with the rout of the Germans in France in August, but crashed with the delay at the West Wall, the Ardennes and the Rhine, while the Soviets ground remorselessly on. The rose again with the rapid break-out into Western Germany and the gradual collapse of German resistance in the West. All in all it was difficult for the politics to keep up and it was safer to basically stick to the agreements.

Cheers, Neilster

Maybe the answer to the Churchill question depends on which month you consider him 'upset'. He also wanted an invasion in the northern Adriatic, and a campaign in the Aegean Sea that he didn't get either. Maybe I'm confusing his thinking on Prague and Vienna with Patton's thoughts on those two objectives. Give me a couple-three months and I'll probably make it to that part of the memoirs. Sometimes they zip right along as you can skip reading all the memoranda. Other times they make me pull out the WiF Map and get lost in tactical daydreaming.

Which country paid it's WWII reparations in full?

ORIGINAL: brian brian

Which country paid it's WWII reparations in full?

Are you asking about debt incurred or damages caused due to agressive war. If it is debt then I would have to say Australia.

To who?

I hit the post button to soon... If is the latter then I will "guess" Finland

ORIGINAL: terje439

Q: What is this?

I can't resist...
A tank[8|][:D]

ORIGINAL: Stavka_lite

ORIGINAL: brian brian

Which country paid it's WWII reparations in full?

Are you asking about debt incurred or damages caused due to agressive war. If it is debt then I would have to say Australia.

I guess it wont be any of the subsequent Iron curtain countries - Romania, Bulgaria etc. So I`ll go for Japan?

ORIGINAL: terje439

Q: What is this?

It's the arse end of a Tiger. Is there some trick though? Something to do with the exhausts perhaps?

Cheers, Neilster

ORIGINAL: Stavka_lite

ORIGINAL: brian brian

Which country paid it's WWII reparations in full?

Are you asking about debt incurred or damages caused due to agressive war. If it is debt then I would have to say Australia.

I think I read somewhere that Germany (or West Germany I suppose) did.

Reparations aren't debt. We won so we're not paying any reparations. Them's the rules. If you don't like paying reparations, don't lose. Better yet, don't start wars if you aren't very good at winning them. Are you listening in the back row Germany? [:D]

Cheers, Neilster

ORIGINAL: Neilster
It's the arse end of a Tiger. Is there some trick though? Something to do with the exhausts perhaps?

Cheers, Neilster

No trick, yes Stavka_Lite it IS a tank [:D]

But Neilster get full score, rear end of a Tiger.
No trick, I only posted part of the tank as it would get too easy if I posted a pic of the entire tank, but at the same time I did not want to make it too difficult either [:D]

And what is this? (yes, a tank but what kind)

And who is this?

ORIGINAL: terje439

And what is this? (yes, a tank but what kind)

panzer IVF

ORIGINAL: terje439

And who is this?

Erich von Manstein

You are correct on the general ofc, close but you are not correct on the tank.