marcuswatney -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (4/30/2009 11:14:11 AM)
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Good effort so far everybody: now you have only the difficult ones to answer! quote:
ORIGINAL: Mad Russian 1. Where were the first shots of the Pacific War exchanged? When I-26 sank the SS Cynthia Olson 750 miles southwest of Seattle, 1000 miles northeast of Honolulu. The SS Cynthia Olson was the first US ship to be sunk by the Japanese in WWII. This took place before the attack on Pearl Harbor. All 35 crew members were lost. No. I worded the question carefully. "Exchanged": The SS Cynthia Olson did not return fire. 2. Who was the highest ranking US officer killed in the war, who killed him and how? U.S. Army Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair. Lt. General McNair was killed 25 July 1944, near St Lo, France. The incident took place at the beginning of Operation Cobra. He was killed by Allied carpet bombing when the bombs fell short of their targets and landed on U.S. troops. Yes. The saddest thing about the incident was that McNair was in command of the fake army in Kent pretending to be about to invade Calais, and was so bored he only came over to Normandy to witness the carpet-bombing as a tourist. 3. What did Cromwell mean? That the British High Command felt the German invasion of England was imminent. It was also a tank. Correct 6. The letter P inside a square was the shoulder-flash of which British unit, and what was its role? Was this the Palestine Brigade? To show that the unit was made up of soldiers from Palestine? No. Hint: this question is linked to Question 8. The unit served well in Normandy and badly at Arnhem Good Hunting. MR Correct answers given by other forum-members are: 4. To shame von Paulus from surrendering. 5. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, (not First Sea Lord, which is the highest naval rank, while Lords of the Admiralty are politicians); 10. Condoms were put over the muzzles of rifles to keep water out. So, only the difficult (anti-Google) questions remain: 1. Where were the first shots of the Pacific War exchanged? 6. The letter P inside a square was the shoulder-flash of which British unit, and what was its role? 7. How soon after being wounded in Normandy was a British soldier back in Britain? 8. Who liberated Copenhagen? 9. Who ducks when the Americans bomb?
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