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I can't remember if this has been asked yet so forgive me if I'm being redundant.

What did the term "blow Job" refer during WWII?

Hint: It's not sexual.

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ORIGINAL: ItBurns

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ORIGINAL: ItBurns

I can't remember if this has been asked yet so forgive me if I'm being redundant.

What did the term "blow Job" refer during WWII?

Hint: It's not sexual.

1. It refered to a type of aircraft.

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ORIGINAL: ItBurns

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ORIGINAL: ItBurns

I can't remember if this has been asked yet so forgive me if I'm being redundant.

What did the term "blow Job" refer during WWII?

Hint: It's not sexual.

1. It refered to a type of aircraft.

2. The aircraft in question was a 2 engined fighter

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

ME 262

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Name "The Worlds largest tank ever produced"

Height: 18 meters
Weight: 40 tonnes

Designed to overcome petty obstacles at 17km per hour.
Research discontinued in 1916 due to lack of funding.




Clue 1: It is Soviet.
Clue 2: That is an actual photograph not a model.

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Meet Tank Lebedenko: the biggest battle tank ever built

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Meet Tank Lebedenko: the biggest battle tank ever built

Talk about a curious tank [X(]

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10/24/42 - 11/04/42 Operation LIGHTFOOT (Second Battle of El Alamein) Lieutenant-general Bernard Law Montgomery uses infantry to sweep 2 corridors through the minefields.

What "gift" developed by Polish Lieutenant Józef Kosack was first used here [&:]

Instead of patenting this item Lieutenant Kosack chose to give this item to the British army as a gift.

The British Army used this item until 1995.

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ORIGINAL: Orm

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10/24/42 - 11/04/42 Operation LIGHTFOOT (Second Battle of El Alamein) Lieutenant-general Bernard Law Montgomery uses infantry to sweep 2 corridors through the minefields.

What "gift" developed by Polish Lieutenant Józef Kosack was first used here [&:]

Instead of patenting this item Lieutenant Kosack chose to give this item to the British army as a gift.

The British Army used this item until 1995.

I am in luck since I recently watched a documentary about this battle. They used a mine detector to sweep the fields faster. I had no idea that Lieutenant Kosack was responsible for developing it nor that he gave it to the British army.

Thank you for sharing.[:)]

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Force X - I'll guess Spain.



My local small town newspaper runs a regular series of interviews with the remaining WWII veterans in the area. A few days ago they had one with a man who both went over the beach at Attu & Kiska ... AND at Normandy. I could ask a trivia question of what unit was this man in, but no one would ever get it, as it wasn't even a regimental level unit. He was in a mobile Army field hospital that was withdrawn from the Aleutians to the continental US and then shifted to Europe.

But it did make me think of a good trivia question. What Allied divisions or smaller units fought both German and Japanese troops. I will even give you part of the first answer....at least one Australian division. But I can't recall the number of which one, and I'm not supposed to Google the answer. Were there others?

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11/06/42 - 12/12/42 Operation SNEEZE

11/06/42 Precautions were taken against Force X in event of hostile action by that Force consequent on impending Allied landings in North Africa.

12/12/42 The British Commander in Chief informed the military authorities that preparations for action against the ships of Force X were no longer needed.


What country did the ships of Force X belong to?

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11/06/42 - 12/12/42 Operation SNEEZE

11/06/42 Precautions were taken against Force X in event of hostile action by that Force consequent on impending Allied landings in North Africa.

12/12/42 The British Commander in Chief informed the military authorities that preparations for action against the ships of Force X were no longer needed.


What country did the ships of Force X belong to?

Vichy France.

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Force X - I'll guess Spain.



My local small town newspaper runs a regular series of interviews with the remaining WWII veterans in the area. A few days ago they had one with a man who both went over the beach at Attu & Kiska ... AND at Normandy. I could ask a trivia question of what unit was this man in, but no one would ever get it, as it wasn't even a regimental level unit. He was in a mobile Army field hospital that was withdrawn from the Aleutians to the continental US and then shifted to Europe.

But it did make me think of a good trivia question. What Allied divisions or smaller units fought both German and Japanese troops. I will even give you part of the first answer....at least one Australian division. But I can't recall the number of which one, and I'm not supposed to Google the answer. Were there others?

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

But it did make me think of a good trivia question. What Allied divisions or smaller units fought both German and Japanese troops. I will even give you part of the first answer....at least one Australian division. But I can't recall the number of which one, and I'm not supposed to Google the answer. Were there others?

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name this ship.

1. was sunk by a submarine

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name this ship.

1. was sunk by a submarine

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name this ship.

1. was sunk by a submarine

Warspite1

Shinano