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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 12:51:00 AM   
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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 12:53:30 AM   
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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 1:22:54 AM   
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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 1:40:31 AM   
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Gen Frank Messervy
... Ok I admit all I remembered was Frank something in Burma but Google provided the last name quickly enough. (sorry I just couldn't post 'Frank something')

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 2:01:49 AM   
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What is this for and did it work?




Bomb dropped on the Rhur (?) dams? One of them worked.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 2:36:45 AM   
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What is this for and did it work?




Bomb dropped on the Rhur (?) dams? One of them worked.



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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 4:00:18 AM   
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Bill Slim?

No, but not too far away.


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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 4:02:51 AM   
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I was born in Trinidad in 1893
I fought in WW1 in France, Palestine, Syria & after the war in Kurdistan.
In Sept 1939 I was promoted as Colonel.

I earned my spurs fighting in an "Out of the way" theatre of war.

I was Officer Commanding of 5 different divisions (NO, not all at the same time)





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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 4:10:33 AM   
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Messervy led an adhoc group called "Gazelle Force", based around elements of 5th Indian Infantry Division during the invastion of Eritrea and the attacks on Keren. During the attacks at Keren he was promoted to command 9th Indian Infantry Bde.

He returned to the Western Desert and commanded 4th Indian Infantry Division, 1st & 7th Armoured Divisions, 43rd Indian Armoured Division, 7th Indian Infantry Division, IV Corps and malaya Command. Post war he was the first commander in chief of the Pakistani Army.

Messervy has the record of having his Divisional HQ overrun twice by 2 different Armies but escaping and returning to the battle. First was 7th Armoured Div HQ by DAK in the Sidi Rezegh battles and then by the japanese in the Arakan battle know as the Battle of the Admin Box.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 8:49:48 AM   
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How about some visual questions (not toooo hard) but tough to Google.

Where is this? And what is the 'Famous Quote" associated with it?






Corregidor.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 5:31:21 PM   
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How about some visual questions (not toooo hard) but tough to Google.

Where is this? And what is the 'Famous Quote" associated with it?






Corregidor.

I've come through, I shall return.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 8:08:14 PM   
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What was used here? Hint it was much brighter slightly louder and a little heaver than Rush Limbaugh





Nagasaki. 2nd A-bomb on Japan. (seen upside down from normal)

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 8:30:04 PM   
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Nagasaki - Fat Man

(both more acurate than the left wing media)

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 3/30/2012 8:34:58 PM   
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Correct !!!
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How about some visual questions (not toooo hard) but tough to Google.

Where is this? And what is the 'Famous Quote" associated with it?






Corregidor.

I've come through, I shall return.

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According to wipipedia
On 17 March, he reached Batchelor Airfield, from which he flew to Alice Springs, and then took the Ghan to Adelaide. His famous speech, in which he said, "I came out of Bataan and I shall return", was first made at Terowie, a small railway township in South Australia on 20 March. Upon his arrival in Adelaide, MacArthur abbreviated this to the now-famous, "I came through and I shall return" that made headlines.[125] Washington asked MacArthur to amend his promise to "We shall return". He ignored the request.

Dugout Doug was looking for a pithy newspaper headline.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/3/2012 12:13:56 AM   
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Length Overall: 573'
Extreme Beam: 95'3"
Normal Displacement: Tons: 27,000
Mean Draft: 28'6"
Designed Complement: Officers: 98 Enlisted men: 994

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Armament in 1922:
Main:
(10) 14"/45

Secondary:
(16) 5"/51
(8) 3"/50 AA
Torpedo Tubes: (4) 21" submerged

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Armament in 1942:
Main:
(10) 14"/45

Secondary:
(6) 5"/51
(8) 3"/50 AA
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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/3/2012 6:47:43 AM   
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I am guessing from the displacement and main armament that she would be from the Wyoming, Texas or Nevada class. The US battleships in these three classes were built in pairs and so assume in 1942 there is only one left.

That makes one of the single ships Arkansas or Nevada the likely answer (their sisters (Wyoming and Oklahoma) were TS / sunk respectively by 1942. Both Texas-class remained in service so probably would have had the same upgrade?

Not convinced on the number of guns for the Arkansas, so will plump for USS Nevada.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/3/2012 9:09:39 AM   
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The armament gives this away as being a US battleship. But which one?

I am guessing from the displacement and main armament that she would be from the Wyoming, Texas or Nevada class. The US battleships in these three classes were built in pairs and so assume in 1942 there is only one left.

That makes one of the single ships Arkansas or Nevada the likely answer (their sisters (Wyoming and Oklahoma) were TS / sunk respectively by 1942. Both Texas-class remained in service so probably would have had the same upgrade?

Not convinced on the number of guns for the Arkansas, so will plump for USS Nevada.

Thats where I headed, but have a lot more 5"ers than in the question.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/3/2012 1:43:02 PM   
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The armament gives this away as being a US battleship. But which one?

I am guessing from the displacement and main armament that she would be from the Wyoming, Texas or Nevada class. The US battleships in these three classes were built in pairs and so assume in 1942 there is only one left.

That makes one of the single ships Arkansas or Nevada the likely answer (their sisters (Wyoming and Oklahoma) were TS / sunk respectively by 1942. Both Texas-class remained in service so probably would have had the same upgrade?

Not convinced on the number of guns for the Arkansas, so will plump for USS Nevada.


Very close but...


Nevada (BB-36), built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts. Keel laid in November 1912; launched in July 1914; completed in March 1916.

Oklahoma (BB-37), built by the New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey. Keel laid in October 1912; launched in March 1914; completed in May 1916.


Nevada class "as-built" design characteristics:

Displacement: 27,500 tons (normal)

Dimensions: 583' (length overall); 95' 3" (extreme beam)

Power plant: 26,500 horsepower geared steam turbines in Nevada; 24,800 horsepower triple-expansion steam reciprocating engines in Oklahoma. Both had two propellers and a 20.5 knot maximum speed

Armament (Main Battery):
Ten 14"/45 guns in two triple and two (superfiring) twin turrets

Armament (Secondary Battery):
Twenty-one 5"/51 guns in single casemate mountings (ten guns on each side of the ship, plus one in the stern); soon reduced to twelve 5"/51 guns.

In the late 1920s, eight 5"/25 anti-aircraft guns were added.



PS. Who in their right mind puts torpedo tubes in a battleship? World War II Torpedoes had a range of about a thousand yards/meters (1,100 yards) while battleships secondary guns have a much longer range. You would turn the guns to fire them while you would have to turn the ship to fire the torpedoes.

Clue 2: Yup it's another TORCH ship. I was looking for flagship verification when I found this.



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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/4/2012 6:23:10 AM   
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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/4/2012 8:23:21 PM   
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In mid-1919, New York transited the Panama Canal to the Pacific, where she was based during the next decade and a half. As a unit of the Battle Fleet, she took an active part in the exercises, drills and gunnery practices that were regularly held in the Pacific and Caribbean. New York underwent modernization in 1925-27, receiving new oil-fired boilers, anti-torpedo bulges on her hull sides, heavier deck armor, up-to-date gunfire control mechanisms and many other improvements that enhanced her combat capabilities. After being transferred to the Atlantic in the mid-1930s, she visited England in 1937 as the U.S. representative to the British Coronation naval review. Over the next three years, the battleship was actively employed as a training ship.


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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/10/2012 5:01:22 PM   
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She sank 2 destroyers, 3 submarines, 3 transports, 10 supply ships, 2 tankers, and 1 trawler for a total of 128,353 tons.

03/18/42 she was lost with all hands


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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/10/2012 6:54:19 PM   
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What was the name of the most successful British submarine in World War II?

She sank 2 destroyers, 3 submarines, 3 transports, 10 supply ships, 2 tankers, and 1 trawler for a total of 128,353 tons.

03/18/42 she was lost with all hands

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One of two:

HMS Turbulent - Lt-Cmdr Linton V.C
or
HMS Upholder - Lt-Cmdr Wanklyn V.C

I think its the former as I believe Upholder was sunk later. Either way, they were both lost with all hands in the Mediterranean after sterling work in that theatre

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/11/2012 1:51:01 AM   
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Submarine HMS Upholder (P 37) Lieutenant Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn VC, DSO & Two Bars

In the 16 months that HMS Upholder operated in the Mediterranean, Wanklyn sank 2 destroyers, 3 submarines, 3 transports, 10 supply ships, 2 tankers, and 1 trawler for a total of 128,353 tons.

Some sites say the tonnage is higher than 128,353 tons.

03/18/42 HMS Upholder was lost with all hands off Tripoli after a brilliant career.



The top-scoring US submarines

For tonnage: Submarine USS Flasher (SS-249) sank 23 ships for 100,231 tons

For number of ships: Submarine USS Tautog (SS-199) sank 26 ships for 72,606 tons.



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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/11/2012 9:36:45 PM   
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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/12/2012 2:22:54 AM   
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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/12/2012 6:20:11 AM   
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Frendly fire or Hostile fire?
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You tell me - the first RN Submarine lost in WWII.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/12/2012 8:31:20 AM   
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Frendly fire or Hostile fire?
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You tell me - the first RN Submarine lost in WWII.



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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/12/2012 3:58:12 PM   
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Good catch JLPOWELL

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/12/2012 7:10:13 PM   
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Oxley sunk by friendly fire (another sub) in the first week of the war.
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Frendly fire or Hostile fire?
Warspite1

You tell me - the first RN Submarine lost in WWII.


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Is the correct answer. No blame was attached to the captain of HMS Triton (Lt-Cmdr Steele); that was all heaped on the commander of Oxley (Lt-Cmdr Bowerman) as she was patrolling out of position and failed to answer Triton's challenges. Bowerman and one other man survived.

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RE: OT - WWII quiz - 4/12/2012 11:57:28 PM   
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