OT - WWII quiz

[ezzler]

3,4,5 are correct.

2 is a correct, but not the correct answer, as the original meaning explains the tank fire one..

[brian brian]

I think "brewing up" refers to a gun (anti-tank or other tank or any kind of howitzer, AA, etc.) scoring a hit on an enemy tank

[Extraneous]

[:D] Took me awhile to find this…

Brew up ~ British - Originally, to make a fire to make tea, later, to catch fire.

Can't give the link cause "Idiot Sticks" are there [:D]


But of course you were thinking of a “Ronson lighter” (Sherman tank) that tended to explode and burn when hit.

[Orm]

Which ship was on the longest cruise, in days, during WWII without reaching a friendly anchorage or port. How many days did the cruise last?

Edit: Replenish at sea is allowed.

Edit 2: I must confess that I have no idea what the correct answer is.[:(] But I truly want to know the answer. Hence I posted the question.[:)]

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Which ship was on the longest cruise, in days, during WWII without reaching a friendly anchorage or port. How many days did the cruise last?

Edit: Replenish at sea is allowed.

Edit 2: I must confess that I have no idea what the correct answer is.[:(] But I truly want to know the answer. Hence I posted the question.[:)]

Warspite1

I will see if I can find anything out but certainly one or two of the Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruisers must be contenders. Extraneous may be able to shed some light on the US carriers ability to stay at sea with RAS.

May I ask where the question has come from?

[Extraneous]

[&o] Pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer ~ cruise October 28, 1940 - April 1, 1941 [&o]

over 46,000 nautical miles (85.000km)

[X(] Returning to the North Sea under an escort of destroyers, her captain choose to make a little race with them and despite in action for more than a year (think once more about worn out engines!) with fouled bottom and so on, out accelerated the escorts and clocked 28kts at given her light displacement. [X(]

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Extraneous

[&o] Pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer ~ cruise October 28, 1940 - April 1, 1941 [&o]

over 46,000 nautical miles (85.000km)

[X(] Returning to the North Sea under an escort of destroyers, her captain choose to make a little race with them and despite in action for more than a year (think once more about worn out engines!) with fouled bottom and so on, out accelerated the escorts and clocked 28kts at given her light displacement. [X(]

Warspite1

Not even close - Atlantis spent about 20 months at sea; Orion and Komet were not far behind.

[Orm]

May I ask where the question has come from?

For some reason I just got curious. Thinking on how the Captain need to stay alert under war conditions day after day after day... even when trying to sleep. And the crew as well and they live in cramped conditions as well. Nothing much for entertainment and discipline is tough. Watchmen trying to stay alert. How alert could they be after a year at sea staring at water?

[brian brian]

Here is a tricky question: which Allied navy escorted a German ship during it's mission? No, nothing captured or purchased before the war. They knew what they were doing.

[Orm]

USSR escorted the German auxiliary cruiser Komet on its Arctic journey from Norway to The Pacific.

[brian brian]

yup, though I was thinking it was the Michel, not the Komet? and of course the trick part of the question was that at the time the USSR wasn't yet one of the Allies. whichever one it was, their journey was not completely 'at sea' as after the passage of the Bering Strait, it docked in Japan. [I like to send German CX units to Japanese bases outside of Japan where no FTC is required; Saipan is a good one for this]

I had a much better question for that unit, but now I blew it already - what WiF unit sailed off the map?

[Extraneous]

Bismarck & Tirpitz ~ © John Asmussen, 2000 - 2011. All rights reserved.

Pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer ~ most successful capital ship commerce raider
10/28/40 - 04/01/41 (155 days)
45,896 nautical miles (85,000km) sank seventeen merchant ships for a total of 113,223 GRT

Orion (HSK 1) (Schiff 36)
04/06/40 - 02/01/41 (301 days) Maug Island, in the Marianas Islands
02/01/41 - 07/23/41 (479 days)
127,337 nautical miles (235,828km) Sank ten ships with a combined tonnage of 62,915 gross register tons (GRT), plus two more (totaling 21,125 GRT) in cooperation with Komet

Atlantis (HSK 2) (Schiff 16)
03/31/40 - 12/25/40 (269 days) Kerguelen Island, Indian Ocean
12/25/40 - 11/21/41 (600 days) sunk
86,898 nautical miles (160,934 km) sank or captured 22 ships totaling 144,384 tons (142,104 long tons)

Wider (HSK 3) (Schiff 21)
05/06/40 - 10/31/40 (179 days)
Sank or captured ten ships, totalling 58,644 GRT



Thor (HSK 4) (Schiff 10) <==== Longest time at sea =====
06/06/40 - 04/30/41 (328 days)
1st Cruise ~ 57,532 nautical miles (106,549km) Sank or captured 12 ships, for a combined tonnage of 96,547 GRT
11/30/41 - 10/09/42 (313 days)
2nd Cruise ~ Sank or captured 10 ships, for a combined tonnage of 58,644 GRT



Pinguin (HSK 5) (Schiff 33)
06/15/40 - 05/08/41 (327 days)
Over 51,270 nautical miles (94,951km) Sank or captured 28 ships, for a combined tonnage of 136,642 GRT. Sank four ships by mines, a total of 18,068 GRT

Stier (HSK 6) (Schiff 23)
05/10/42 - 09/27/42 (141 days)
Sank 4 ships of 29,409 tons (GRT).

Komet (HSK 7) (Schiff 45)
07/03/40 - 11/01/40 (121 days) Refuels in Japan
11/01/40 - 11/30/41 (515 days)
100,000 nautical miles (190,000 km) Komet and Orion five Allied merchant ships, with a combined tonnage of about 41,000 tons, that had been waiting off the island of Nauru to load phosphate (of which Komet sank three). Cooperating with the Orion, she sank two more British ships in August 1941 and captured the Dutch 7,300 ton freighter Kota Nopan which was sent as a prize to Bordeaux. FYI 950,000 Reichsmarks for Soviet assistance in using the Northern Sea Route

Kormoran (HSK 8) (Schiff 41)
12/03/40 - 11/19/41 (325 days) Sunk
Sank 12 ships, with a combined tonnage of about 75,375 GRT and Light Cruiser HMAS Sydney

Michel (HSK 9) (Schiff 28)
03/20/42 - 02/10/43 (327 days) stop at Batavia, Japanese occupied NEI
02/10/43 - 03/02/43 (348 days)
1st Cruise ~ Sank 15 allied ships, with a combined tonnage of about 99,000 GRT
05/01/43 - 10/17/43 (169 days)
2nd Cruise ~ Sank three ships, with a combined tonnage of about 27,632 GRT

Coronel (HSK 10) (Schiff 14)
Attempted cruise but turned back to German ports

[brian brian]

OK I thought up a pair of land questions for a change.

What German division made it the farthest east?

What German division advanced the farthest into the Soviet Union?

[british exil]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

OK I thought up a pair of land questions for a change.

What German division made it the farthest east? You don't mean the Divisions that were marched off into the POW camps in the east?

What German division advanced the farthest into the Soviet Union?

Spent a whole hour pouring through my books, no luck so far. All I gathered that it must belong to Heeresgruppe A, fighting near the oil fields. But as it's now 3:10 am I'm off to bed.

Mat

[niclasil]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

OK I thought up a pair of land questions for a change.

What German division made it the farthest east?

What German division advanced the farthest into the Soviet Union?

I think I actually know this;

Farthest east - 16th inf div (mot)

Farthest into the SU - 13th panzer division. If I'm not mistaken they were less than 60 miles from Grozny, at a place I won't even try to write correctly...

[brian brian]

though I like the trick question some times, no tricks. just the combat unit that made it the farthest east and lived to tell about it. their parent division, actually. it's not much of a hint to say it was a reconnaissance abteilung = battalion. they may have smelled salt air but they didn't see any blue water, at least not the land unit. there is an Axis naval unit involved too. What was it?

the farthest into the Soviet Union is a different answer.

[brian brian]

while I was typing that one niclasil got it correct on both counts. 13th Panzer was actually farther from the German border, just across the Tevek River I believe, than 16th Motorised was when it got the farthest east.

What Axis naval unit was along with the 16th Mot Recon? That is from a little sketchier bit of info.

[british exil]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

while I was typing that one niclasil got it correct on both counts. 13th Panzer was actually farther from the German border, just across the Tevek River I believe, than 16th Motorised was when it got the farthest east.

What Axis naval unit was along with the 16th Mot Recon? That is from a little sketchier bit of info.

The 16th mot was nicknamed "Windhund-Division" the "Greyhound Div" because of their speed and far advance.


I know we are not allowed to use Google,(frowned upon) but may we use pages in the net that have not been googled such as our bookmarks?

[niclasil]

I think you should be able to do that, but then you should state that you did I have alot of books about WW2, but I find that more and more information comes from the net, and I can't remember the last time I actually read a historical book for the first time. Probably 4-5 years ago. Which is a shame, few things beat a good sofa, a blanket, a cup of tea and an interesting book.

That said, I'm playing an advanced form for Axis and Allies with 3-4 friends a couple of times each year - we're playing World at War with almost 100% changed rules, and we got into a discussion last time about how far the Germans actually got before they were turned back. So, I learned this one two months ago, but we did google it back then.

[Centuur]

A political WW II question: a German died in the Netherlands on the 4th. of juni 1941, being held under house arrest.

Who was he and what did Adolf Hitler send to the funeral against the deceased last wishes?