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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 10:49:20 AM   
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Lord Gort?
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No, not Lord Gort.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 10:50:18 AM   
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Okay here's another variation on a theme:

Which Officer am I (none of which have WIF Counters)?

Quiz 2
1. I served in the Army
2. I attained the rank of Field Marshal during the Second World War
3. I did not survive the war
4. I did not die in combat
5. I was a hero to some; a traitor to others

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 2:06:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		No 3:
1. I served as a Admiral
2. I served in the Pacific theater
3. Early in the war I commanded a cruiser division
4. One of the battles I took part in was the Battle of Midway
5. I am best known for my participation in the largest naval battle of WWII.
6. I was criticized by some of my peers for not fighting to the death.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 2:08:03 PM   
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Okay here's another variation on a theme:

Which Officer am I (none of which have WIF Counters)?

Quiz 2
1. I served in the Army
2. I attained the rank of Field Marshal during the Second World War
3. I did not survive the war
4. I did not die in combat
5. I was a hero to some; a traitor to others

Why can't I think of anyone.


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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 4:04:01 PM   
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No 3:
1. I served as a Admiral
2. I served in the Pacific theater
3. Early in the war I commanded a cruiser division
4. One of the battles I took part in was the Battle of Midway
5. I am best known for my participation in the largest naval battle of WWII.
6. I was criticized by some of my peers for not fighting to the death.
warspite1

Mikawa

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 4:18:19 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Orm

No 3:
1. I served as a Admiral
2. I served in the Pacific theater
3. Early in the war I commanded a cruiser division
4. One of the battles I took part in was the Battle of Midway
5. I am best known for my participation in the largest naval battle of WWII.
6. I was criticized by some of my peers for not fighting to the death.
warspite1

Mikawa

No, not Mikawa.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 5:01:38 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Orm


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ORIGINAL: Orm

No 3:
1. I served as a Admiral
2. I served in the Pacific theater
3. Early in the war I commanded a cruiser division
4. One of the battles I took part in was the Battle of Midway
5. I am best known for my participation in the largest naval battle of WWII.
6. I was criticized by some of my peers for not fighting to the death.
warspite1

Mikawa

No, not Mikawa.
warspite1

Last guess from me - Kurita

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 5:19:56 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Orm


quote:

ORIGINAL: warspite1


quote:

ORIGINAL: Orm

No 3:
1. I served as a Admiral
2. I served in the Pacific theater
3. Early in the war I commanded a cruiser division
4. One of the battles I took part in was the Battle of Midway
5. I am best known for my participation in the largest naval battle of WWII.
6. I was criticized by some of my peers for not fighting to the death.
warspite1

Mikawa

No, not Mikawa.
warspite1

Last guess from me - Kurita

And the last guess is correct. It is indeed Takeo Kurita.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 8:44:50 PM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1


Okay here's another variation on a theme:

Which Officer am I (none of which have WIF Counters)?

Quiz 2
1. I served in the Army
2. I attained the rank of Field Marshal during the Second World War
3. I did not survive the war
4. I did not die in combat
5. I was a hero to some; a traitor to others
6. At the start of WWII I commanded an Army.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/22/2012 11:49:52 PM   
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Walther von Reichenau

Guess it depends on how u define hero/traitor.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/23/2012 3:20:09 AM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1


Okay here's another variation on a theme:

Which Officer am I (none of which have WIF Counters)?

Quiz 2
1. I served in the Army
2. I attained the rank of Field Marshal during the Second World War
3. I did not survive the war
4. I did not die in combat
5. I was a hero to some; a traitor to others
6. At the start of WWII I commanded an Army.

von Witzleben?

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 9/23/2012 12:01:30 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Orm


quote:

ORIGINAL: warspite1


Okay here's another variation on a theme:

Which Officer am I (none of which have WIF Counters)?

Quiz 2
1. I served in the Army
2. I attained the rank of Field Marshal during the Second World War
3. I did not survive the war
4. I did not die in combat
5. I was a hero to some; a traitor to others
6. At the start of WWII I commanded an Army.

von Witzleben?
warspite1

Erwin von Witzleben it is

I remember being very saddened by the opening paragraph on von Witzleben in Mitchum's "Hitler's Field Marshals".

".......Had he seen the light of day a century earlier, he would have been a worthy colleague of Gerhard Scharnhorst, August von Gneisenau, and Count Johann Yorck von Wartenburg, the officers who freed Prussia from Napoleon. Born when he was, he was born to be hanged."

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/4/2012 2:44:38 AM   
brian brian

 

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Status: offline 		von Reichenau was a good guess though. I don't think he made Field Marshall before he died of a heart attack though, and there was no question of his politics nor did he command an Army to start the war. But some interesting what-ifs hangs over his career I think.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/4/2012 6:14:20 AM   
Orm


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von Reichenau was a good guess though. I don't think he made Field Marshall before he died of a heart attack though, and there was no question of his politics nor did he command an Army to start the war. But some interesting what-ifs hangs over his career I think.

I beg to disagree. von Reichenau commanded the 10th Army at the time of the start of the war. He was also promoted to Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) before his death. And since he joined the Nazi party it is not completely unreasonable to think that some of his peers considered him a traitor to the officer corps.





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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/8/2012 3:29:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		ahh, thanks Orm, it has been some time since I read a short version of his bio, so I just read the even shorter one on Wiki. and who commanded the Armies during the invasion of Poland always escapes me and I am more familiar with a few of the corps commanders in that one, the ones who rose to Army/Army Group level later in the war.

von Reichenau's death makes for some interesting what-if's on the outcome of Operation Barbarossa. something I read years back indicated that his loyalty to the Nazis gave him Hitler's ear a bit better than other regular Army generals, I hope I am still thinking of the correct FeldMarschall.

the point about a German general being a traitor to some but not others is a terrible one for a quiz like this. you could make that point about every German general, as loyal Nazis being traitors to basic human morality, and vice versa on any that participated or didn't participate in anti-Hitler plots. the Wiki article on von Reichenau has this to say about his death and the resultant clouds around this officer:

In January 1942 von Reichenau suffered a cerebral haemorrhage, and it was decided to fly him from Poltava to a hospital in Leipzig, Germany. He is often said to have been killed in a plane crash in Russia, though Görlitz writes that the plane merely made an emergency landing in a field, and that von Reichenau actually died of a heart attack. His death coincided in time with a propaganda action conducted by the Polish underground (Operation Reichenau), whose goal was to discredit Reichenau, in the eyes of the German leadership, as a person who allegedly had been plotting to overthrow the Nazi régime, to sow distrust between the Nazi political leadership and its military command, and punish one of the German generals responsible for war crimes in Poland. This coincidence became a fertile ground for conspiracy theories, which allege that Reichenau might actually have been killed by the Nazi secret services.



I sometimes wish WiF had a leadership system akin to the one in the old Victory Games' "Civil War" where Stonewall Jackson gets-r-done, many of the others just kind of sit there too long, and you hope Bragg rolls 2 6s on an attack and bites it, or however that worked. So it would take a lot of your command points to get Monty moving...

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/10/2012 5:00:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		What conspiracy...a 9mm to the head would be a definite cause of a cerebral haemorrhage and could definitely cause a heart to stop working.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/21/2012 11:20:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Now I am looking for five ships.

No. 1
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) My fate is shown in a movie.

No. 2
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I once had a Airfix model of this ship. I thought she looked like a beauty.

No. 3
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.

No. 4
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.

No. 5
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I survived the war.


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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 6:26:42 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Orm

Now I am looking for five ships.

No. 1
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) My fate is shown in a movie.

No. 2
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I once had a Airfix model of this ship. I thought she looked like a beauty.

No. 3
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.

No. 4
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.
No. 5
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I survived the war.

Warspite1

1. Graf Spee
2. Hood
3. Surcouf
4. Repulse
5. Victory

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 12:17:24 PM   
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No. 1
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) My fate is shown in a movie.


barham

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 6:55:42 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Orm

Now I am looking for five ships.

No. 1
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) My fate is shown in a movie.

No. 2
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I once had a Airfix model of this ship. I thought she looked like a beauty.

No. 3
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.

No. 4
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.
No. 5
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I survived the war.

Warspite1

1. Graf Spee
2. Hood
3. Surcouf
4. Repulse
5. Victory

No right so far. Interesting picks.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 6:58:17 PM   
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No. 1
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) My fate is shown in a movie.


barham

No, not HMS Barham. But she definitely deserves a quiz.

I suppose that with 'movie' I meant 'feature film'.


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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 7:11:21 PM   
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2. Bismarck
3. Hr. Ms. Thor
4. Yamato
5. Hr. Ms. Tyr



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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 7:12:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Orm, when you say no counter, do you mean there is a generic counter E.g. ASW or Sub?

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 7:18:25 PM   
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Orm, when you say no counter, do you mean there is a generic counter E.g. ASW or Sub?

It has been my intention to say 'part of counter' or something like that if it is a sub or something like that. No counter means just that I think that it is not even part of a generic counter. But I notice now that I been didn't express one of the clues correctly. I soon amend it.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 7:22:13 PM   
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1. Bismarck
2. Bismarck
3. Hr. Ms. Thor
4. Yamato
5. Hr. Ms. Tyr



Nothing right here either. Hr. Ms. Thor and Hr. Ms. Tyr sound like a couple of icebreakers. Never heard of them.


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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 7:32:56 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Orm

Now I am looking for five ships.

No. 1
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) My fate is shown in a movie.

No. 2
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I once had a Airfix model of this ship. I thought she looked like a beauty.

No. 3
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.

No. 4
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.
No. 5
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I survived the war.

Warspite1

1. Graf Spee
2. Hood
3. Surcouf
4. Repulse
5. Victory


1 Hood
2 Scharnhorst
3 Victory
4 Prince of Wales
5 Was a

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 7:39:17 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: warspite1

quote:

ORIGINAL: Orm

Now I am looking for five ships.

No. 1
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) My fate is shown in a movie.

No. 2
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I once had a Airfix model of this ship. I thought she looked like a beauty.

No. 3
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.

No. 4
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.
No. 5
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I survived the war.

Warspite1

1. Graf Spee
2. Hood
3. Surcouf
4. Repulse
5. Victory


1 Hood
2 Scharnhorst
3 Victory
4 Prince of Wales
5 Was a

Scharnhorst is correct.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 7:45:02 PM   
Orm


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Status: offline 		Now I am looking for five ships.

No. 1
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) My fate is shown in a movie.
3) I sunk after being hit by two torpedoes.

No. 2 is Scharnhorst as Warspite1 already concluded.
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I once had a Airfix model of this ship. I thought she looked like a beauty.
3) My wreck was discovered during the 21st century.

No. 3
1) I have no counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.
3) There was an apology and indemnity was paid after my sinking.

No. 4
1) I have my own counter in WIF.
2) I was sunk by aircraft.
3) During my active career I spent most of my time in port and was mainly used for AA purposes.

No. 5
1) I have no counter in WIF but I might be considered part of a generic counter.
2) I survived the war.
3) My Captain (one of them) has been honored with a statue (at least one).


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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 8:09:05 PM   
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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 10/22/2012 8:22:29 PM   
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1. USS Juneau

No, not USS Juneau.

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