RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:15 am
What ship?
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RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:20 am
PzIVH? The anti-hollow charge skirts make it later - I assume they have a proper name.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:21 am
Yup, the H-version is correct.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:26 am
What type of plane? (model is not the Q, just the airplane type)
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:27 am
Errr...just realised...Do NOT click the attachment link if you intend to answer these Qs [:D]
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:59 am
Warspite1ORIGINAL: terje439
What ship?
Yamato or Musashi
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:02 pm
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Warspite1
Yamato or Musashi
Correct, but which one [:D]
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:15 pm
I believe that is of the Yamato. The plane is a Bf109...I'm going to say a Bf 109s?(for switzerland?)
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:20 pm
ORIGINAL: macgregor
I believe that is of the Yamato. The plane is a Bf109...I'm going to say a Bf 109s?(for switzerland?)
yup it is the Yamato. And yes, a Bf109 and a Swizz one indeed. Version is E3 but that was not a Q, so well done.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:48 pm
Adolf Galland scored 104 Victories, all of them over the western front which makes him to the most successful german pilot over the western front
sorry but that is wrong
Hans Marseille (yellow 14, Star of Africa) shot down 158 Western Aircraft
Heinz Bar, shot down 125
and
Kurt Buhligen, shot down 112
sorry but that is wrong
Hans Marseille (yellow 14, Star of Africa) shot down 158 Western Aircraft
Heinz Bar, shot down 125
and
Kurt Buhligen, shot down 112
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 3:11 pm
ORIGINAL: Stavka_lite
I hit the post button to soon... If is the latter then I will "guess" Finland
that is the country I had in mind. only countries that lose in war pay reparations; although the Russians took a lot of stuff out of their parts of Eastern Europe I think even they eventually had to back off from their original ideas as they had to set up the satellite regimes, and didn't go so far as to set up an official reparations system. I think the West had hoped for the same from their parts of what became West Germany, but they too waived these by the time of the Marshall Plan.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:38 pm
From Wikipedia...ORIGINAL: brian brian
ORIGINAL: Stavka_lite
I hit the post button to soon... If is the latter then I will "guess" Finland
that is the country I had in mind. only countries that lose in war pay reparations; although the Russians took a lot of stuff out of their parts of Eastern Europe I think even they eventually had to back off from their original ideas as they had to set up the satellite regimes, and didn't go so far as to set up an official reparations system. I think the West had hoped for the same from their parts of what became West Germany, but they too waived these by the time of the Marshall Plan.
Contrary to popular belief, the Marshall Plan, which was extended to also include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe, was not the main force behind the Wirtschaftswunder. Had that been the case, other countries such as Great Britain and France (which both received higher economic assistance from the Marshal plan than Germany) should have experienced the same phenomenon. In fact, the amount of monetary aid (which was in the form of loans) received by Germany through the Marshall Plan (about $1.4 billion in total) was far overshadowed by the amount the Germans had to pay back as war reparations and by the charges the Allies made on the Germans for the ongoing cost of occupation (about $2.4 billion per year)[87]. In 1953 it was decided that Germany was to repay $1.1 billion of the aid it had received. The last repayment was made in June 1971.
Cheers, Neilster
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:15 pm
Another easy one : who is considered the father of the blitzkrieg doctrine in Germany?
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:27 pm
Guderian ?ORIGINAL: micheljq
Another easy one : who is considered the father of the blitzkrieg doctrine in Germany?
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:21 pm
Liddell Hart (by way of his works influencing men like Guderian)?
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:21 pm
I was thinking of Guderian who wrote a book in 1937 "Achtung Panzer". He was convinced that the armor should be used in formations to break enemy lines followed by motorized infantry to fill and protect the gap opened by the armored forces.
Ouinn too easy!!!
Ouinn too easy!!!
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:43 pm
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Warspite1ORIGINAL: 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?
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??
You have been given a point by tha author of these Qs
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:09 am
90 years ago today a treaty was signed that many claims laid the foundation for WWII,
a)what treaty, and
b)were was it signed?
c)What part did the answer for Q b play in WWII?
a)what treaty, and
b)were was it signed?
c)What part did the answer for Q b play in WWII?
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:31 am
a) The Versaille treaty of armistice that ended WWI (ans some say, started WWII).ORIGINAL: terje439
90 years ago today a treaty was signed that many claims laid the foundation for WWII,
a)what treaty, and
b)were was it signed?
c)What part did the answer for Q b play in WWII?
b) Versaille, in a wagon.
c) Hitler wanted to sign the surrender of the French army in June 1940 in the same wagon.
RE: OT - WWII quiz
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:26 am
all correct ofc, knew that one would be easy, just had to bring in something to this historic date [:)]