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terje439 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/6/2008 9:12:35 PM)


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ORIGINAL: micheljq

I guess it's an easy one.

What is a PIAT? Please don't look at wiki.


The British counterpart to the American Bazooka or the German Panzerfaust. (AT weapon).



terje439 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/6/2008 9:13:40 PM)

Q: What high ranking officer was a hero in England but despised in USA? (also easy, I know).



micheljq -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/6/2008 9:14:58 PM)

Montgomery?



terje439 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/6/2008 9:20:32 PM)

yup



terje439 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/6/2008 9:28:40 PM)

Q1: What was SHAEF?

Q2: Who was 2nd in command of SHAEF?

Q3: Why was Churchill upset by the final target line for the allied forces declared by Eisenhower? (bad phrasing I know, hopefully you guys understand what I mean)

Q4: What is the American airplane produced in the most number?

Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?



composer99 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/6/2008 9:30:59 PM)

q1: Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force

The fact that I don't really know the answers to the other four questions doesn't say much for my knowledge of WWII trivia. [:(]



patchogue -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/6/2008 9:55:31 PM)

q2 Air Marshal (?) Tedder



Stavka_lite -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/6/2008 11:38:00 PM)

Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?
Son of a Bitch 2nd class



Jeffrey H. -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 3:53:09 AM)

Q4. DC3 ?



Neilster -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 5:16:07 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: terje439


quote:

ORIGINAL: micheljq

I guess it's an easy one.

What is a PIAT? Please don't look at wiki.


The British counterpart to the American Bazooka or the German Panzerfaust. (AT weapon).

Projector Infantry Anti Tank? I think that's where the name comes from.

Cheers, Neilster



Neilster -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 5:27:23 AM)

The most produced American WW2 aircraft was the B-24 Liberator I think. They were churning out one every 50 minutes in the vast, new factories built to produce them.

Cheers, Neilster



terje439 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 10:49:56 AM)

q1: Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
q2 Air Marshal (?) Tedder
Q4: The most produced American WW2 aircraft was the B-24 Liberator I think. They were churning out one every 50 minutes in the vast, new factories built to produce them.

These are correct.

Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?
Son of a Bitch 2nd class
Not quite [;)]

So Q3 and 5 remains.



Neilster -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 1:38:14 PM)

Q3. It didn't encompass Berlin. Churchill knew that would cause post-war tension (which it did). Abiding by previous agreements, The Wallies turned South East and South. They were also ensuring the phantom "Southern Redoubt" didn't eventuate.

On balance, I think it was the right decision. The Cold War difficulties were overcome and a battle for Berlin would have been hideously costly and it's capture by the Wallies would have antagonised the Russkies. It was their death-match...let have have it out. The only thing I can think of that might have worked was for the Wallies to surround it and starve them out but that would bring its own problems.

Cheers, Neilster



micheljq -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 1:58:26 PM)


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ORIGINAL: terje439

yup


The relationship between Monty an Eisenhower was not an easy one.



micheljq -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 2:02:55 PM)

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Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?


Avenger? I am quite sure it must be a bomber which goes on U.S. carriers.



Stavka_lite -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 6:03:24 PM)

Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?
Son of a Bitch 2nd class
Not quite

HMMM.. how about Helldiver????



Froonp -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 7:47:32 PM)

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ORIGINAL: micheljq

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Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?


Avenger? I am quite sure it must be a bomber which goes on U.S. carriers.

Hey, Avenger is the Torpedo bomber from Grumman, the famous TBF. [8D]
The SB2C is the Helldiver, but I suppose he looks for some other nickname.



Stavka_lite -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 8:00:46 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Froonp

quote:

ORIGINAL: micheljq

quote:

Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?


Avenger? I am quite sure it must be a bomber which goes on U.S. carriers.

Hey, Avenger is the Torpedo bomber from Grumman, the famous TBF. [8D]
The SB2C is the Helldiver, but I suppose he looks for some other nickname.

The only other name I have heard is the "Big Tailed Bastard."
The Helldiver was "truly loved"[;)] by its pilots hence the "endearing"[;)] nicknames.



terje439 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 11:03:38 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Stavka_lite


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ORIGINAL: Froonp

quote:

ORIGINAL: micheljq

quote:

Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?


Avenger? I am quite sure it must be a bomber which goes on U.S. carriers.

Hey, Avenger is the Torpedo bomber from Grumman, the famous TBF. [8D]
The SB2C is the Helldiver, but I suppose he looks for some other nickname.

The only other name I have heard is the "Big Tailed Bastard."
The Helldiver was "truly loved"[;)] by its pilots hence the "endearing"[;)] nicknames.


Correct, I was indeed after "Big Tailed Bastard", but would have accepted Helldiver as well.

And Neilster is quite correct about Q3, Churchill was upset by two things;
a) It did not encompass Berlin
b) the fact that a C-i-C took a decision that should have been made by the national leaders.



terje439 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 11:06:34 PM)

Q: What is this?



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terje439 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 11:13:46 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Stavka_lite

Q5: What was the nickname of the Curtiss SB2C?
Son of a Bitch 2nd class


You are indeed correct, I've just never heard that one before. Hat of to you for this [&o]



terje439 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 11:15:00 PM)

Some Qs I've been mailed, since they are good Qs indeed I'll post them here;

(Q1) What was the largest naval battle of the Spanish Civil War?

(Q2) Why should the Spanish Nationalist cruiser Baleares not be included in WiF after March 1938?

(Q3) What were Japanese Aircraft carriers and seaplane carriers mostly named after?

(Q4) If the IJN battleship Fuso's name means "Land of Divine Mulberry Trees" what is this also an old name for?

(Q5a) Who is the Peruvian cruiser Coronel B named after (no its not the football team or the collage)?

(Q5b) What is Coronel B's most famous saying?



warspite1 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/7/2008 11:20:25 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: terje439

Some Qs I've been mailed, since they are good Qs indeed I'll post them here;

(Q1) What was the largest naval battle of the Spanish Civil War?

(Q2) Why should the Spanish Nationalist cruiser Baleares not be included in WiF after March 1938?

(Q3) What were Japanese Aircraft carriers and seaplane carriers mostly named after?

(Q4) If the IJN battleship Fuso's name means "Land of Divine Mulberry Trees" what is this also an old name for?

(Q5a) Who is the Peruvian cruiser Coronel B named after (no its not the football team or the collage)?

(Q5b) What is Coronel B's most famous saying?
Warspite1

Q3. Castles and Dragons - I can never remember which ships are which but I think of those carriers that took part in Pearl Harbor, there was Flying Dragon, Green Dragon, Red Castle and I`m sure I recall reading that Kaga means Increased Joy - or was I reading an edition of Asian Babes??



brian brian -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/8/2008 1:00:57 AM)

Churchill wanted Vienna, definitely, and possibly Prague as well, to beinside the Western Allied stop line, I thought.



Neilster -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/8/2008 3:02:20 AM)


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ORIGINAL: brian brian

Churchill wanted Vienna, definitely, and possibly Prague as well, to beinside the Western Allied stop line, I thought.

Vienna is a long way East and it was encircled by the Soviets while the Allies were barely over the Rhine. Prague was a possibility but the Bohemian quadrilateral contained Army Group Centre, one of the last coherent concentrations of fighting strength the Germans possessed, commanded by the fanatical Schoerner.

Expectations of what was possible for the Western Allies fluctuated wildly in the last year of the European war. They soared with the rout of the Germans in France in August, but crashed with the delay at the West Wall, the Ardennes and the Rhine, while the Soviets ground remorselessly on. The rose again with the rapid break-out into Western Germany and the gradual collapse of German resistance in the West. All in all it was difficult for the politics to keep up and it was safer to basically stick to the agreements.

Cheers, Neilster



brian brian -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/8/2008 4:22:14 AM)

Maybe the answer to the Churchill question depends on which month you consider him 'upset'. He also wanted an invasion in the northern Adriatic, and a campaign in the Aegean Sea that he didn't get either. Maybe I'm confusing his thinking on Prague and Vienna with Patton's thoughts on those two objectives. Give me a couple-three months and I'll probably make it to that part of the memoirs. Sometimes they zip right along as you can skip reading all the memoranda. Other times they make me pull out the WiF Map and get lost in tactical daydreaming.



brian brian -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/8/2008 4:24:13 AM)

Which country paid it's WWII reparations in full?



Stavka_lite -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/8/2008 4:37:12 AM)


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ORIGINAL: brian brian

Which country paid it's WWII reparations in full?


Are you asking about debt incurred or damages caused due to agressive war. If it is debt then I would have to say Australia.



wworld7 -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/8/2008 4:38:29 AM)

To who?



Stavka_lite -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/8/2008 4:38:57 AM)

I hit the post button to soon... If is the latter then I will "guess" Finland



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