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RE: Next quiz - 12/5/2011 3:59:34 PM   
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RE: Next quiz - 12/5/2011 6:34:14 PM   
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When and where did paratroop units from both the Axis and the Allied sides drop into the same area at the same time?


Crete.

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RE: Next quiz - 12/5/2011 6:51:13 PM   
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RE: Next quiz - 12/5/2011 7:02:59 PM   
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I thought it was Sicily and not Crete, just before the invasion there. I believe the Germans were training at the same time the allies started the attack on the island.

Sicily is correct. The British and the Germans dropped inland from the SE coast and caused great confusion for all concerned.

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RE: Next quiz - 12/5/2011 7:53:13 PM   
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That one has been asked before.

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In which WWII campaign did British and German paratroops parachute into the same drop zone within minutes of one another?



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RE: Next quiz - 12/5/2011 9:38:46 PM   
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That one has been asked before.

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In which WWII campaign did British and German paratroops parachute into the same drop zone within minutes of one another?



I didn't remember it being asked before.

I just read about it over the summer.

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RE: Next quiz - 12/6/2011 12:58:20 AM   
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RE: Next quiz - 12/6/2011 4:17:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		The 12' gun of the British M-class submarines is correct.

But the HMS/m M1 was the only one of her class completed during World War One. Even then she was hidden away in North Africa.

The HMS/m M2 and HMS/m M3 were not completed durring the war and HMS/m M4 was canceled.


The Loss of HMS/m M1 November 25, 1925

They were known as "submarine monitors" or "submarine cruisers".

The HMS/m M1 was fitted with a 12-inch (305mm) Mark IX gun which was intended for use against surface ships in preference to torpedoes , the argument being that, "No case is known of a ship-of-war being torpedoed when under way at a range outside of 1000 yards" .

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RE: Next quiz - 12/6/2011 11:18:23 PM   
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RE: Next quiz - 12/7/2011 11:48:32 AM   
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Who or what was 'the little fellows ?'


At first I thought you might have ment "Little Frends" (what bomber crews called Fighter planes).

So I looked ot up and was supprised.

Good question

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RE: Next quiz - 12/7/2011 2:38:02 PM   
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Who or what was 'the little fellows ?'


The 2 atomic bombs?

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RE: Next quiz - 12/7/2011 4:07:48 PM   
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Who or what was 'the little fellows ?'


A brigade of hobbits? Trained for night attacks it was hoped the enemy would always fire too high.

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RE: Next quiz - 12/7/2011 5:17:44 PM   
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RE: Next quiz - 12/7/2011 7:28:50 PM   
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Who or what was 'the little fellows ?'


The 2 atomic bombs?
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No they were little boy and fat man.

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RE: Next quiz - 12/7/2011 10:38:48 PM   
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The little fellows were the junior Hitler youth. So a win for Centuur.

However I was really looking at
US Brevet Colonel Bonner Frank Fellers. He was refereed to as 'the little fellers' or 'my bonnie fellow' by Erwin Rommel.
But why?

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RE: Next quiz - 12/7/2011 11:16:50 PM   
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RE: Next quiz - 12/9/2011 6:51:46 AM   
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Why did he use this car?

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RE: Next quiz - 12/9/2011 4:17:44 PM   
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In whose car did President Roosevelt travel from the White House to the Capitol to make his "Day of Infamy" speech on the 8th December 1941?

Why did he use this car?

Al Capone's. The Secret Service was worried about 5th columnists, which Hitler had made use of in his surprise attacks on other countries. But the budget for a President's car was limited to $750 so they did not have an armored car available in the President's fleet. However, the Treasury Department had confiscated Al's when they put him in prison for tax evasion. So they simply pulled Al's car out of the garage for the trip to Congress. Note that Secret Service is a branch of the Treasury Department.

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RE: Next quiz - 12/9/2011 4:47:11 PM   
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In whose car did President Roosevelt travel from the White House to the Capitol to make his "Day of Infamy" speech on the 8th December 1941?

Why did he use this car?

Al Capone's. The Secret Service was worried about 5th columnists, which Hitler had made use of in his surprise attacks on other countries. But the budget for a President's car was limited to $750 so they did not have an armored car available in the President's fleet. However, the Treasury Department had confiscated Al's when they put him in prison for tax evasion. So they simply pulled Al's car out of the garage for the trip to Congress. Note that Secret Service is a branch of the Treasury Department.


The Secret Service was a branch of the Treasury Department.

The Department of Homeland Security was established with the passage of (Public Law 107-296) which in part, transferred the United States Secret Service from the Department of the Treasury, to the new department effective March 1, 2003.


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RE: Next quiz - 12/9/2011 11:59:44 PM   
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In whose car did President Roosevelt travel from the White House to the Capitol to make his "Day of Infamy" speech on the 8th December 1941?

Why did he use this car?

Al Capone's. The Secret Service was worried about 5th columnists, which Hitler had made use of in his surprise attacks on other countries. But the budget for a President's car was limited to $750 so they did not have an armored car available in the President's fleet. However, the Treasury Department had confiscated Al's when they put him in prison for tax evasion. So they simply pulled Al's car out of the garage for the trip to Congress. Note that Secret Service is a branch of the Treasury Department.
Warspite1

Is the correct answer - didn't think anyone would get that.


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RE: Next quiz - 12/11/2011 6:14:18 AM   
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05/09/42 - 05/12/42 Operation BOWERY 240 tons of stores and RAF personnel to Malta
06/16/42 - 06/16/42 Operation HARPOON stores, mail, and personnel to Malta
07/15/42 - 07/27/42 Operation PINPOINT stores and passengers to Malta
08/10/42 - 08/15/42 Operation PEDESTAL stores to Malta
10/28/42 - 11/02/42 delivered stores to Malta returned to Gibraltar
11/02/42 - 11/11/42 delivered stores to Algiers to support Oprtation TORCH
11/17/42 - 11/22/42 delivered stores to Malta returned to Gibraltar
11/27/42 - 11/30/42 from Gibraltar to Haifa from Gibraltar to pickup torpedoes for Malta
11/30/42 - 12/01/42 delivers torpedoes to Malta
11/30/42 - 12/01/42 returns to Gibraltar
Passage to Haifa to prepare for minelaying duties carried out practice minelaying off Haifa.
12/04/42 Passage to Algiers with a call at Bone with MTB and submarine spares
01/04/43 transported stores, including 150 tons of seed potatoes to Malta

02/01/43 position 32º12'N 24º52'E East of Tobruk. U-617 torpedoes HMS Welshman. Serious flooding of mine deck caused instability and could not be corrected. She sank quickly after 2 hours. 155 killed included 2 civilians.


Durring Operation BOWERY who commented about HMS Welshman that ".. we may well lose this ship ... but in view of the emergency ... there appears to be no alternative".



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RE: Next quiz - 12/11/2011 11:11:34 PM   
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RE: Next quiz - 12/11/2011 11:16:10 PM   
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He was a war correspondent for the Morning Post (and alot of you have his books acording to your posts).
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In which case I can only assume its Winston S Churchill.

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RE: Next quiz - 12/12/2011 1:50:47 AM   
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RE: Next quiz - 12/12/2011 2:50:27 AM   
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why were two RN battleships known as cherry trees  

Cherry wood decks?

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RE: Next quiz - 12/12/2011 6:41:34 AM   
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why were two RN battleships known as cherry trees  
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Well I've never heard that before! Did you get that from wiki or do you have another source?

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RE: Next quiz - 12/12/2011 9:09:34 AM   
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He was a war correspondent for the Morning Post (and alot of you have his books acording to your posts).
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In which case I can only assume its Winston S Churchill.



Correct Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

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RE: Next quiz - 12/12/2011 9:20:58 AM   
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why were two RN battleships known as cherry trees  
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Well I've never heard that before! Did you get that from wiki or do you have another source?



I found other sources than Wiki.

I hadn't heard of it either and can't answer since I looked it up.

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RE: Next quiz - 12/13/2011 12:15:46 AM   
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Lots of sources. i can't quote the book I'm reading as it names one of the ships in the title.

clue 2. - One Battleship was the flag of the HomeFleet in 1939.  The new type 79 radar should have been fitted early in 1939 but it would have had to be fitted in the Admiral's suite/flag room. Instead it was fitted to the other Cherry Tree Battleship. This turned out to be extremely fortunate later in the war.

The sister ship was the first battleship to fire torpedoes at another battleship.

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RE: Next quiz - 12/13/2011 3:21:02 PM   
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Not cherrywood decks.
Lots of sources. i can't quote the book I'm reading as it names one of the ships in the title.

clue 2. - One Battleship was the flag of the HomeFleet in 1939.  The new type 79 radar should have been fitted early in 1939 but it would have had to be fitted in the Admiral's suite/flag room. Instead it was fitted to the other Cherry Tree Battleship. This turned out to be extremely fortunate later in the war.

The sister ship was the first battleship to fire torpedoes at another battleship.



Well the sister ship was the Rodney as I seem to remember her sending a torpedo into the Bismark. So that identifies the first ship as the Nelson, I still have no clue as to why they would be called cherry trees.

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