Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: monkla

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

Q6: What nation developed the largest submarines during the war?

I remember something about a very big french submarine, named the Surcouf (name of a french corsair or naval commander from the beginning of the 19th century who did some feats in India region I think).  According to wikipedia 4218 tons, huge for a sub at this time. 

Ahh...the Surcouf. It bring's back fond memories of a naval campaign I was in where I had the submarine at my disposal. Going around shelling the enemy with the 2 8 inch guns on board. How cool is that - okay, also pretty stupid, but what can I say.

I think it is believed that she was rammed by an allied merchantment somewhere in the Caribbean.

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ORIGINAL: monkla

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

Q6: What nation developed the largest submarines during the war?

I remember something about a very big french submarine, named the Surcouf (name of a french corsair or naval commander from the beginning of the 19th century who did some feats in India region I think).  According to wikipedia 4218 tons, huge for a sub at this time. 

Ahh...the Surcouf. It bring's back fond memories of a naval campaign I was in where I had the submarine at my disposal. Going around shelling the enemy with the 2 8 inch guns on board. How cool is that - okay, also pretty stupid, but what can I say.

I think it is believed that she was rammed by an allied merchantment somewhere in the Caribbean.

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

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ORIGINAL: monkla

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

Q6: What nation developed the largest submarines during the war?

I remember something about a very big french submarine, named the Surcouf (name of a french corsair or naval commander from the beginning of the 19th century who did some feats in India region I think).  According to wikipedia 4218 tons, huge for a sub at this time. 


Ahh...the Surcouf. It bring's back fond memories of a naval campaign I was in where I had the submarine at my disposal. Going around shelling the enemy with the 2 8 inch guns on board. How cool is that - okay, also pretty stupid, but what can I say.

I think it is believed that she was rammed by an allied merchantment somewhere in the Caribbean.

We are still looking for someone to do write ups for the submarine units. The intention is to have a separate writeup for each sub which has some general background on the major power's use of submarines in the war and then an additional paragraph or two about individual sub(s). Since each unit represents dozens of subs, this lets use make each unit's description unique and more interesting than the same text for every US/Japanese/German sub unit in the game.

If anyone is interested in doing some of these writeups, let me know (SHokanson@HawaiianTel.net).

Warspite1

Steve, just to be clear, I am still doing the CW submarines.

(in reply to Shannon V. OKeets)

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Steve

On that subject, September has come and gone and I have heard nothing from Marcus despite two chasers.

Can I make a start on selected CW carriers please? I will tell you why I am being a pain on the subject. My write ups include relatively detailed write ups of key battles so that all the major events the CW navies were involved in are covered off. This also ensures that all VC`s winners stories are provided. These write ups are given to a specific unit and then cross referenced. For example the Hood contains a detailed write up of the start of the Bismarck operation and the Rodney has the detailed write up post Hood`s sinking. All other ships involved in this action have just a brief reference to their participation and a (see HMS Hood (or HMS Rodney) for details). By spreading these lengthier write ups across individual ships, I can get more interesting stories without any one write up being too long.

As part of this process I would like to know one way or the other whether, for example I can put the Raid on Taranto against Illustrious or another, non-carrier ship. Obviously the ideal for this action would be against the carrier. Sorry to be a pain but want these write ups as polished as possible - they are taking over my life .

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Q1: What famous actress was asked by Nazi-Germany to return to Germany but decided to stay in USA?

Q2: What airplane name is also the name of an Audrey Hepburn movie?

Q3: Operation Fall Weiss is remembered as the German attack on Poland, but it is also the name of another Axis operation, what was the second "Fall Weiss" about?

Q4: What German operation was codenamed "Fall Gelb"?

Q5: What was the German codename for "Battle of the Ardennes/Bulge"?

Q6: Some Japaneese counters in MWiF and WiF are labelled SNLF. What does those letter stand for?

Q7: What was the name of the 1st SS Div? What was its task when founded?

Q8: What became the official name of Germany to in 1943?

Q9: Who was the last person to recieve the "Blood Order"?

Q10: The trials at Nuremberg took place in Nuremberg for two main reasons, what were the reasons?

Hint for Q2 - also a drink that truely lives up to its name!
Hint for Q9 - He had a role in crushing the SA

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: terje439

Q1: What famous actress was asked by Nazi-Germany to return to Germany but decided to stay in USA?

Q2: What airplane name is also the name of an Audrey Hepburn movie?

Q3: Operation Fall Weiss is remembered as the German attack on Poland, but it is also the name of another Axis operation, what was the second "Fall Weiss" about?

Q4: What German operation was codenamed "Fall Gelb"?

Q5: What was the German codename for "Battle of the Ardennes/Bulge"?

Q6: Some Japaneese counters in MWiF and WiF are labelled SNLF. What does those letter stand for?

Q7: What was the name of the 1st SS Div? What was its task when founded?

Q8: What became the official name of Germany to in 1943?

Q9: Who was the last person to recieve the "Blood Order"?

Q10: The trials at Nuremberg took place in Nuremberg for two main reasons, what were the reasons?

Hint for Q2 - also a drink that truely lives up to its name!
Hint for Q9 - He had a role in crushing the SA

Warspite1

Q.4 The attack on France
Q.5 Wacht Am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine - it was purposely given a non-offensive code-name)
Q.6 Special Naval Landing Force
Q.7 Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler - Hitlers Lifeguard
Q.10 Something to do with the Nuremburg laws?

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ORIGINAL: Plain Ian

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: terje439

Q1: What famous actress was asked by Nazi-Germany to return to Germany but decided to stay in USA?

Q2: What airplane name is also the name of an Audrey Hepburn movie?

Q3: Operation Fall Weiss is remembered as the German attack on Poland, but it is also the name of another Axis operation, what was the second "Fall Weiss" about?

Q4: What German operation was codenamed "Fall Gelb"?

Q5: What was the German codename for "Battle of the Ardennes/Bulge"?

Q6: Some Japaneese counters in MWiF and WiF are labelled SNLF. What does those letter stand for?

Q7: What was the name of the 1st SS Div? What was its task when founded?

Q8: What became the official name of Germany to in 1943?

Q9: Who was the last person to recieve the "Blood Order"?

Q10: The trials at Nuremberg took place in Nuremberg for two main reasons, what were the reasons?

Hint for Q2 - also a drink that truely lives up to its name!
Hint for Q9 - He had a role in crushing the SA

Warspite1

Q.4 The attack on France
Q.5 Wacht Am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine - it was purposely given a non-offensive code-name)
Q.6 Special Naval Landing Force
Q.7 Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler - Hitlers Lifeguard
Q.10 Something to do with the Nuremburg laws?

Spookily enough these are the only questions I could have answered as well?

However for Q7 the answer should be Leibstandarte if I remember my German from 1973 correctly. (ei is pronounced i and ie is pronounced ee) However if you google both spellings of Lifeguard(Body Guard) you get hits on both Liebstandarte and Leibstandarte, but I think the second is correct?

For Q10 is it because the south and Nurnberg were the heartland of National Socilism and where they had the infamous Rallies?

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ORIGINAL: terje439

Q1: What famous actress was asked by Nazi-Germany to return to Germany but decided to stay in USA?

Q2: What airplane name is also the name of an Audrey Hepburn movie?

Q3: Operation Fall Weiss is remembered as the German attack on Poland, but it is also the name of another Axis operation, what was the second "Fall Weiss" about?

Q4: What German operation was codenamed "Fall Gelb"?

Q5: What was the German codename for "Battle of the Ardennes/Bulge"?

Q6: Some Japaneese counters in MWiF and WiF are labelled SNLF. What does those letter stand for?

Q7: What was the name of the 1st SS Div? What was its task when founded?

Q8: What became the official name of Germany to in 1943?

Q9: Who was the last person to recieve the "Blood Order"?

Q10: The trials at Nuremberg took place in Nuremberg for two main reasons, what were the reasons?

Hint for Q2 - also a drink that truely lives up to its name!
Hint for Q9 - He had a role in crushing the SA

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ORIGINAL: Plain Ian

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: terje439

Q1: What famous actress was asked by Nazi-Germany to return to Germany but decided to stay in USA?

Q2: What airplane name is also the name of an Audrey Hepburn movie?

Q3: Operation Fall Weiss is remembered as the German attack on Poland, but it is also the name of another Axis operation, what was the second "Fall Weiss" about?

Q4: What German operation was codenamed "Fall Gelb"?

Q5: What was the German codename for "Battle of the Ardennes/Bulge"?

Q6: Some Japaneese counters in MWiF and WiF are labelled SNLF. What does those letter stand for?

Q7: What was the name of the 1st SS Div? What was its task when founded?

Q8: What became the official name of Germany to in 1943?

Q9: Who was the last person to recieve the "Blood Order"?

Q10: The trials at Nuremberg took place in Nuremberg for two main reasons, what were the reasons?

Hint for Q2 - also a drink that truely lives up to its name!
Hint for Q9 - He had a role in crushing the SA

Warspite1

Q.4 The attack on France
Q.5 Wacht Am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine - it was purposely given a non-offensive code-name)
Q.6 Special Naval Landing Force
Q.7 Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler - Hitlers Lifeguard
Q.10 Something to do with the Nuremburg laws?

Spookily enough these are the only questions I could have answered as well?

However for Q7 the answer should be Leibstandarte if I remember my German from 1973 correctly. (ei is pronounced i and ie is pronounced ee) However if you google both spellings of Lifeguard(Body Guard) you get hits on both Liebstandarte and Leibstandarte, but I think the second is correct?

For Q10 is it because the south and Nurnberg were the heartland of National Socilism and where they had the infamous Rallies?

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ORIGINAL: warspite1
Q.4 The attack on France
Q.5 Wacht Am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine - it was purposely given a non-offensive code-name)
Q.6 Special Naval Landing Force
Q.7 Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler - Hitlers Lifeguard
Q.9 What about that nasty piece of work Heydrich?
Q.10 Something to do with the Nuremburg laws?

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck
1. Marlene Dietrich
2. Could it be B-52?
3. Warsaw Ghetto liquidation after the uprising
8. seems to me it was something like "the greater German Reich"

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Q10 - my first guess would be also the Nürnberg Laws, the second would be that the "Reichsparteitage" were held in Nürnberg - the largest propaganda shows of the NSDAP.

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Q2: What airplane name is also the name of an Audrey Hepburn movie?

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ORIGINAL: terje439
Well, that only leaves the plane/drink/Hepburn movie name and the second "Fall Weiss"

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ORIGINAL: terje439
Q2: What airplane name is also the name of an Audrey Hepburn movie?

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ORIGINAL: terje439
Well, that only leaves the plane/drink/Hepburn movie name and the second "Fall Weiss"

I think you may have mixed up two of the great moviestar ladies?

It was Katherine Hepburn, not Audrey that starred in the 1934 movie "Spitfire", which also is a famous ale from Kent, UK.

Edit: Oh yeah. A Spitfire was an airplane of some kind as well, IIRC.

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Bah! My bad then. Just saw Hepburn on the cover and immediately thought Audrey. Soz. Spitfire is also a drink, not just an ale. The drink is living up to its name, it is close to making you spit fire indeed.
But again, poor intel on my side, will try to sharpen up!

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck
Yes, another mistake like that and we'll send over the B-52s.

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Which was the only ocean liner to serve as a troopship in BOTH world wars?

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ORIGINAL: terje439

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Which was the only ocean liner to serve as a troopship in BOTH world wars?

*something* Russia....

Pride of Russia or something?

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Which was the only ocean liner to serve as a troopship in BOTH world wars?

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Which was the only ocean liner to serve as a troopship in BOTH world wars?

I think it is a great english ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth?

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I'm pretty sure that the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were built between the wars. But for some reason, I think that the liner we're after is a well known ship anyhow. The only other one's that I can think of are Lusitania and Mauretania. It's obviously not Lusitania. So, I'll try Mauretania.

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Which was the only ocean liner to serve as a troopship in BOTH world wars?

I think it is a great english ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth?

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ORIGINAL: Frederyck

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck
Yes, another mistake like that and we'll send over the B-52s.

You have to make mistakes to get someone to send you Kahlúa-based drinks?!? For future references, I prefer mine with Grand Marnier, and not Cointreau.

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I'm pretty sure that the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were built between the wars. But for some reason, I think that the liner we're after is a well known ship anyhow. The only other one's that I can think of are Lusitania and Mauretania. It's obviously not Lusitania. So, I'll try Mauretania.

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Which was the only ocean liner to serve as a troopship in BOTH world wars?

I think it is a great english ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth?

Warspite1

You are on the right track. Clue: it is an "ania" but no not the Mauretania which was scrapped in the thirties.

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ORIGINAL: monkla



I'm pretty sure that the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were built between the wars. But for some reason, I think that the liner we're after is a well known ship anyhow. The only other one's that I can think of are Lusitania and Mauretania. It's obviously not Lusitania. So, I'll try Mauretania.

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Which was the only ocean liner to serve as a troopship in BOTH world wars?

I think it is a great english ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth?

Warspite1

You are on the right track. Clue: it is an "ania" but no not the Mauretania which was scrapped in the thirties.

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ORIGINAL: composer99

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ORIGINAL: Frederyck

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck
Yes, another mistake like that and we'll send over the B-52s.

You have to make mistakes to get someone to send you Kahlúa-based drinks?!? For future references, I prefer mine with Grand Marnier, and not Cointreau.

There is also a rather sucky pop rock band called the B-52s. They could be sent over instead of the drinks. I believe you will find that they are not nearly as fascinating as the bombers nor as appetizing as the beverages.

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ORIGINAL: monkla



I'm pretty sure that the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were built between the wars. But for some reason, I think that the liner we're after is a well known ship anyhow. The only other one's that I can think of are Lusitania and Mauretania. It's obviously not Lusitania. So, I'll try Mauretania.

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Which was the only ocean liner to serve as a troopship in BOTH world wars?

I think it is a great english ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth?

Warspite1

You are on the right track. Clue: it is an "ania" but no not the Mauretania which was scrapped in the thirties.

Soooo glad to see others make mistakes as well
There is also the Empress of Russia

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ORIGINAL: terje439

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: monkla



I'm pretty sure that the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were built between the wars. But for some reason, I think that the liner we're after is a well known ship anyhow. The only other one's that I can think of are Lusitania and Mauretania. It's obviously not Lusitania. So, I'll try Mauretania.

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Which was the only ocean liner to serve as a troopship in BOTH world wars?

I think it is a great english ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth?

Warspite1

You are on the right track. Clue: it is an "ania" but no not the Mauretania which was scrapped in the thirties.

Soooo glad to see others make mistakes as well
There is also the Empress of Russia

Warspite1

Terje - not exactly - yours was a case of mistaken identity K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E not A-U-D-R-E-Y . Mine was a case of duff sources of information - something by the way that has been a regular occurence since researching the naval wite ups. I can`t believe the number of times a supposedly good book (that costs a fortune) comes up with some utter bilge . Did you know the Germans had a troopship called Bhicker that was sunk in Oslo fjord during Weserubung? No - thought not.................and that staggeringly useless bit of "info" cost £25

P.S Oh and by the way - how could you "Guess" at Empress of Russia? You are either a great knowledge in all matters relating to merchant shipping of the Canadian Pacific Railway - in which case OR you are cheating ...I couldn`t possibly comment.

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