Weekly WW2 Trivia Questions

marcsignal · 18-05-2009 11:27pm

1: Identify the 2 aircraft involved in the last dogfight of the European theater, and what was unusual about the result of this engagement.
A Piper Cub unarmed spotter plane named 'Miss Me' of the U.S 5th Armoured and a German Feisler Storch, also a spotter plane, met over Germany in April 1945. Lt Duane Francies (pilot) and his observer, Lt William Martin dove on the Feisler and fired their .45 Colts, bringing the German plane down. They landed and captured the pilot and German observer. It was the only German plane shot down with a handgun.

2: Identify the first type of Monoplane to operate from a U.S. Aircraft Carrier.
The Brewester Buffalo

3: Where and when did the British Fleet score its first victory against the Axis during WW2 ?
In Mid March 1941 in the battle of Cape Matapan against the Italians in the Mediterranean

4: How many submarines did the U.S lose in the Atlantic ?
3, S-26 on Jan 24th 1942, R-12 on June 12 1943, and a boat named Dora on Oct 12 1943

5: When did the heaviest and most severe raid on London by the Luftwaffe take place ?
May 10-11 1941 when over 1400 were killed and 1800injured, Westminster Abbey and the House of Commons were hit.

6: When did the last air raid on Berlin by the Western Allies take place ?
Saturday April 21st @ 09:25 by the U.S. 8th Air Force.

7: Which Allied General was code named 'Duckpin' ? Was it a: Devers, b: Eisenhower, or c: Truscott
Eisenhower

8: What was the code name of the unsuccessful 1943 attempt to kill Hitler by putting a bomb in his plane ?
Operation Flash

9: What was known as the 'Gibraltar of the South Pacific' ?
Rabul on New Britain Island

10: Who was Eva Brauns sister Gretl married to ? and what was his eventual fate?
Herman fagelein who was executed by Hitler in 1945

marcsignal · 21-05-2009 7:29pm

Looks like Arnhem44 has it in the bag again

well done

will post new questions in a day or 2, as i'm up to me goolies in work atm.

citizen_p · 18-06-2009 9:56pm

hmmmm i think your watch is broken...

marcsignal · 19-06-2009 7:11pm

Mousey- wrote: »

hmmmm i think your watch is broken...

yep, sorry all, im travelling about atm without my main reference books, back sunday

apologies

marcsignal · 26-06-2009 6:02pm

Here's the next 10 questions

1 : Name the top 5 German Fighter Aces of WW2?

2 : How many Allied POW's were forced to work for the Nazi German war machine?

3 : What was the Japanese strength on Okinawa in April 1945 in troops and planes?

4 : Identify the German passenger ship that was stalked by a U.S.Navy warship until the German Captain scuttled, rather than be sunk or siezed in 1939?.

5 : What was the strength of the French Air Force when the war began?

6 : Identify the aircraft considered by many to be the best torpedo bomber of WW2?

7 : Identify the pilot who flew more combat missions than anyone else in WW2?

8 : What was the name of the Law, in German, that made the families of German Generals responsible for the Generals actions?

9 : Identify the Italian Commander who invaded Egypt from Lybia in September 1940?

10 : Which American Broadcast Newsman made the following quip after Italy joined the war
"Italy looks like a Boot, and behaves like a Heel"

marcsignal · 10-07-2009 2:42am

jeasus lads

you were ALL issued with a shovel, dig around for fuck sake

the panzers are closing in loike :pac:

Morlar · 10-07-2009 10:57am

I don't have a shovel for any of these so I will stick with the bible and the PanzerFaust

marcsignal wrote: »

Here's the next 10 questions

1 : Name the top 5 German Fighter Aces of WW2?

2 : How many Allied POW's were forced to work for the Nazi German war machine?
Guess None

3 : What was the Japanese strength on Okinawa in April 1945 in troops and planes?

4 : Identify the German passenger ship that was stalked by a U.S.Navy warship until the German Captain scuttled, rather than be sunk or siezed in 1939?.

5 : What was the strength of the French Air Force when the war began?

6 : Identify the aircraft considered by many to be the best torpedo bomber of WW2?

7 : Identify the pilot who flew more combat missions than anyone else in WW2?

8 : What was the name of the Law, in German, that made the families of German Generals responsible for the Generals actions?

9 : Identify the Italian Commander who invaded Egypt from Lybia in September 1940?
Rodolfo Graziani who made a pig's ear of it.

10 : Which American Broadcast Newsman made the following quip after Italy joined the war
"Italy looks like a Boot, and behaves like a Heel"
Walter Winchell

(thank you google)

FiSe · 10-07-2009 1:50pm

Will not look for it or google it so here what I think I know:

1 : Name the top 5 German Fighter Aces of WW2?
E. Hartman, H. Graf, W. Nowotny, G. Barkhorn, H. Bar

2 : How many Allied POW's were forced to work for the Nazi German war machine?

3 : What was the Japanese strength on Okinawa in April 1945 in troops and planes?

4 : Identify the German passenger ship that was stalked by a U.S.Navy warship until the German Captain scuttled, rather than be sunk or siezed in 1939?.

5 : What was the strength of the French Air Force when the war began?
1000 aircraft /?/

6 : Identify the aircraft considered by many to be the best torpedo bomber of WW2?
Tricky question Avenger, Val /?/

7 : Identify the pilot who flew more combat missions than anyone else in WW2?

8 : What was the name of the Law, in German, that made the families of German Generals responsible for the Generals actions?

9 : Identify the Italian Commander who invaded Egypt from Lybia in September 1940?

10 : Which American Broadcast Newsman made the following quip after Italy joined the war
"Italy looks like a Boot, and behaves like a Heel"

That's just about it. Didn't use the spoiler thingy as I don't think that my few answers are correct anyway

marcsignal · 14-07-2009 6:33pm

and the answers are....

1 : Name the top 5 German Fighter Aces of WW2?
A: Eric Hartmann (352 kills), Gerhard Barkhorn (301 kills), Gunther Rall (275 kills), Otto Kittel (267 kills), Walther Nowotny (255 kills)

2 : How many Allied POW's were forced to work for the Nazi German war machine?
A: Approx 2 million

3 : What was the Japanese strength on Okinawa in April 1945 in troops and planes?
A: 100'000 Troops and 3000 Planes *edit - thanks Dinter*

4 : Identify the German passenger ship that was stalked by a U.S.Navy warship until the German Captain scuttled, rather than be sunk or siezed in 1939?.
A: Colombus

5 : What was the strength of the French Air Force when the war began?
A: 3'600 including aircraft in the Colonies, only 1'400 were in France at the time.

6 : Identify the aircraft considered by many to be the best torpedo bomber of WW2?
A: The Italian Savoia-Marchetti Sparviero (believe it or not)

7 : Identify the pilot who carried who flew more combat missions than anyone else in WW2?
A: Luftwaffe Ace and Stuka pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, who according to German records flew 2530 missions

8 : What was the name of the Law, in German, that made the families of German Generals responsible for the Generals actions?
A: Sippenschaft (apprehension and arrest of next of kin) written by Robert Ley and passed in August 1944.

9 : Identify the Italian Commander who invaded Egypt from Lybia in September 1940?
A: Marshal Rodolfo Graziani

10 : Which American Broadcast Newsman made the following quip after Italy joined the war "Italy looks like a Boot, and behaves like a Heel"
A: Walter Winchell

good effort Fise & Morlar, and it looks like Morlar wins the sticky bun this week

Ok, judging by the viewing count, a lot of people seemed interested, but the questions were probably too obscure, so the next ten will be a little more general and maybe we should all agree not to use google ???

will post tomorrow (hopefully);)

Dinter · 15-07-2009 2:50pm

Are you sure about the answer to 3?

Excluding the Okinawan conscripts (although there is no real difference between them and British conscripts from Jersey for example) the figure seems extremely low.

Sorry I'm not being pedantic just actually wondering. I'd answered a few of these but forgotten to post!! Just as well because my answer for manpower was a multiple of 10!!

marcsignal · 15-07-2009 5:39pm

Dinter wrote: »

Are you sure about the answer to 3?

Excluding the Okinawan conscripts (although there is no real difference between them and British conscripts from Jersey for example) the figure seems extremely low.

Sorry I'm not being pedantic just actually wondering. I'd answered a few of these but forgotten to post!! Just as well because my answer for manpower was a multiple of 10!!

ooops

you're right Dinter ! I missed a Zero there it should be 100'000 men sorry

marcsignal · 15-07-2009 8:41pm

Ok here's this weeks questions.

I've included some multiple choice ones this week so everyone at whatever level can have a stab at them, but be warned, there's a few bastards in there too

Do we all agree not to use google ? whatever, see how we go.

Good Luck

1 : Which one of these countries declared it would be non-beligerant on Sept 2nd 1939?
Italy, The Soviet Union or Japan ?

2 : Which type of ship was the largest lost by the U.S. in Okinawa ?
Destroyer, Light Cruiser, Heavy Cruiser, Escort Carrier, or Fleet Carrier ?

3 : Which Italian City was subjected to the worst bombing raid (in Italy) of the war ?
Rome, Naples or Turin ?

4 : When did the U.S.'officially' declare that war with Germany had ended?
May 7th 1945, Jan 1st 1946, or October 19th 1951 ?

5 : Can you identify this aircraft, used on the eastern front by the Germans as a spotter/recon aircraft ?

6 : Other than the name, what was eerily unusual about the German U-Boat U-666 ?

7 : Here is a pic of Adolf and Eva in Berchtesgarten with their 3 dogs, can you name them ?? (from left to right)

8 : Identify the French General who conquered Monte Cassino in Italy?

9 : Approximately how many bombing incidents from aircraft were there in Ireland (that's neutral Southern Ireland) during WW2?

10 : How long did the Dutch hold out against the German invasion in 1940?

will post answers this day next week

citizen_p · 15-07-2009 10:02pm

1

Italy

2

Destroyer

3

Turin

4

1951, de nazification.. nuremburg etc...

5

no idea, thats a model though

6

never found / unkonwn fate ?

7

no idea

8

no idea

9

No idea 2 or 3?

10.

surrendered after 4 days.... and in certain places resisted for 7 days (the only one im certin of

)

FiSe · 16-07-2009 1:54pm

1. Italy

2. destroyer /?/

3. Turin

4. 1946 /?/

5. BV 141

6. ?

7. ? I should now that Shepperd's name if nothing else

8. ?

9. 16

10. 1 week

marcsignal · 22-07-2009 5:37pm

and this weeks answers are.....

1 : Which one of these countries declared it would be non-beligerant on Sept 2nd 1939? Italy, The Soviet Union or Japan ?
A : Benito Mussolini made the declaration for Italy

2 : Which type of ship was the largest lost by the U.S. in Okinawa ? Destroyer, Light Cruiser, Heavy Cruiser, Escort Carrier, or Fleet Carrier ?
A : Of the 36 ships lost, none was larger than a Destroyer.

3 : Which Italian City was subjected to the worst bombing raid (in Italy) of the war ? Rome, Naples or Turin ?
A : Turin on Nov 20th 1944

4 : When did the U.S.'officially' declare that war with Germany had ended? May 7th 1945, Jan 1st 1946, or October 19th 1951 ?
A : October 19th 1951, Britian France and Australia declare that war with Germany ofically ended on July 9th 1951

5 : Can you identify this aircraft, used on the eastern front by the Germans as a spotter/recon aircraft ?
A : Blohm & Voss BV 141 well done Fise

6 : What was eerily unusual about the German u boat U-666
A : The U-666 was Listed as missing in the North Atlantic on 10 Feb, 1944. There is still no explanation for its loss. All 51 crewmen were also lost. well done Mousey, if that was a guess it was a good one

7 : Here is a pic of Adolf and Eva in Berchtesgarten with their 3 dogs, can you name them ??
A : From left to right: Negus, Stasi and Blondi.*(Hitler detested Eva's Dogs)

8 : Identify the French General who conquered Monte Cassino in Italy?
A : General Alphonse Juin

9 : Approximately how many bombing incidents were there in Ireland (that's neutral Southern Ireland) during ww2?
A : 16 SPOT ON Fise!!

10 : How long did the Dutch hold out against the German invasion in 1940?
A : answers between 4 days & 1 week are ok.

Well done Fise & Mousey

Looks like we have a tiebraker, so here's your tiebreaker question.

Q: What was the main difference between Japanese Kamakazi and German Sonderkommando Pilots at the end of the war??

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citizen_p · 22-07-2009 6:31pm

i seen this on a tv show

(dogfights)

in the show the sonderkommando pilots used to ram enemy planes and then eject from their damaged plane.
Kamikazees didnt eject, they wanted to die "honourably"

FiSe · 23-07-2009 9:30am

Kamikazes were Navy pilots and as long as Germans had very small Navy 'air force' this must be it

This is what I think:

There are more differences:

- kamikaze attacks were widely used from 1944 /?/ onwards
- kamikaze were attacking ships rather than aircraft
- they were using dive bomb attack increased by the impact of the aircraft afterwards
- kamikazes had one way ticket only, no matter of the outcome of the attack. They were not coming back

- the Sonderkommando pilots were still an experimental unit used in a couple of attacks /wouldn't know how many/
- they were aimed to attack Allied bombers
- ramming of the enemy plane was the tactic used
- after attack pilot meant to used a parachute to get him into safety from his wrecked aircraft , this was nice in theory, but useless in practice, not to mention that pilot on the chute was a legitimate target for the enemy fighters in this case

I suppose that's it

marcsignal · 24-07-2009 2:45pm

Q: What was the main difference between Japanese Kamakazi and German Sonderkommando Pilots at the end of the war??

you're both right again

A: The answer i was looking for here, was that the German pilots had the option to parachute to safety, so you both covered that aspect.

So here's another 3, and we'll do a best out of....

Q1: what was the overriding reason for the American campaign to capture Guadalcanal in the Pacific?

Q2: Identify the SS General who met Alan Dulles of the OSS, to try to negotiate peace in March 1945

Q3: Which WW2 campaign is considered to be the most spectacular series of victories gained over a British army?

citizen_p · 24-07-2009 6:22pm

Q1: what was the overriding reason for the American campaign to capture Guadalcanal in the Pacific?

Q2: Identify the SS General who met Alan Dulles of the OSS, to try to negotiate peace in March 1945

Q3: Which WW2 campaign is considered to be the most spectacular series of victories gained over a British army?

1.

runways/emergerncy stop for damaged bombers

2.

no idea

3.

north africa? until el alemain

FiSe · 25-07-2009 11:34am

Ahhh, not good, not good

1. Emergency landing strip for damaged bombers?
2. Who's Allan Dulles? Himmler? Haven't got a clue
3. First I was thinking of Belgium, France, Dunkirk... But I'll stick to Japanese advance in the 'Indo-china'

marcsignal · 25-07-2009 6:43pm

Q1: what was the overriding reason for the American campaign to capture Guadalcanal in the Pacific?
A :The Japanese were building an airstrip that would threaten Australia with land bombers

Q2: Identify the SS General who met Alan Dulles of the OSS, to try to negotiate peace in March 1945
A : SS General Karl Wolff smuggled to Switzerland, he also met with General Lyman Lemnitzer on the same trip.

Q3: Which WW2 campaign is considered to be the most spectacular series of victories gained over a British army?
A : The German Campaign in North Africa to capture Tobruk in 1942, according to the history of the campaign as it is recorded in the official South African version.

Looks like Mousey has it on Q3 well done

marcsignal · 25-07-2009 6:48pm

A few more multiple choice ones this week.....

Q1 : Who were known as the Golden Pheasants ?

Q2 : What was the German code name for the bombing of Coventry on Nov 14-15 1940 ?
a) Moonlight Sonata?
b) Operation Greif?
or
c) Operation Cicero?

Q3 : What was the Allied 'Operation Gambit' ?
a) Cardboard and wooden aircraft and tanks assembled in Southern England to decieve German air reconnaissance?
b) The false info fed to the Germans regarding the Normandy landings, suggesting it would take place in Calais?
or
c) The British submarine mission that went in close to the French coast in advance of the Normandy landings ?

Q4 : How did the Germans let the British know, they were aware that the Aircraft on some of the airfields in southern England were made of wood and cardboard?

Q5 : Who was the only General to land with the first wave of troops at Normandy?

Q6 : What did the initials SHAEF stand for?

Q7 : Other than the British, which nations had the most, and the least number of squadrons in the RAF by the time the Allies invaded France.

Q8 : Identify the first U.S ship attacked by enemy fire in 1941?

Q9 : Who did the French sign an armistice with on the day that the Pétain Government set up its headquarters in Vichy, June 24th 1940 ?

Q10 : Who said "I made a mistake, I will pay for it with my life, if my life can still serve as payment"
a) Rudolf Hoess Commandant of Auschwitz?
b) Mussolini?
c) German Field Marshal Keitel?
or
d) German Colonel General Alfred Jodl?

Good Luck

Morlar · 25-07-2009 8:15pm

marcsignal wrote: »

Q4 : How did the Germans let the British know, they were aware that the Aircraft on some of the airfields in southern England were made of wood and cardboard?

Please let it be . . . 'They dropped wooden bombs on them'.

bealbocht · 15-09-2009 9:45pm

marcsignal wrote: »

A few more multiple choice ones this week.....

Q1 : Who were known as the Golden Pheasants ?

Nazi Party leaders ( colour of thier uniforms)

Q2 : What was the German code name for the bombing of Coventry on Nov 14-15 1940 ?
a) Moonlight Sonata?

Q3 : What was the Allied 'Operation Gambit' ?
c) The British submarine mission that went in close to the French coast in advance of the Normandy landings ?

Q4 : How did the Germans let the British know, they were aware that the Aircraft on some of the airfields in southern England were made of wood and cardboard?
The success of the invasion would indication the did not know about them ??

Q5 : Who was the only General to land with the first wave of troops at Normandy?
General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, "he insisted on a combat jump into Normandy before D-Day, June 6, 1944. The citation to the OLC on his DSC said that in the Normandy jump he "exposed himself continuously to fire" and "personally directed the operations in important task of securing the bridgehead over the Merderet River.His recollection of his jump was slightly less reverential. "I was lucky," he said. "There was no wind and I came down straight, into a nice, soft, grassy field. I recognized in the dim moonlight the bulky outline of a cow. I could have kissed her. The presence of a cow meant the field was not mined."" http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ridgway.htm

Q6 : What did the initials SHAEF stand for?
Supream Headquaters Allied Expeditional Force

Q7 : Other than the British, which nations had the most, and the least number of squadrons in the RAF by the time the Allies invaded France.
Source : http://www.ww2f.com/battle-europe/13299-non-british-raf-battle-britain.html

1,790 Britain
141 Poland
88 Canada
86 Czechoslovakia
73 New Zealand
56 Fleet Air Arm
21 Australia (53 - 32 born in Oz but had GB passports hence classed GB)
26 Belgium
21 South Africa
13 France
8 Ireland
7 United States
2 Southern Rhodesia
1 Palestine

Q8 : Identify the first U.S ship attacked by enemy fire in 1941?

I suspect you will name a civilian ship , torpodoed in the Atlantic, but can find no evidence, prior to 8 dec 1941, so ...
"It's not quite clear. It could have been the USS West Virginia, which may have been hit with a torpedo launched from a Japanese minisub.
Or it could have been the USS Utah, the first to be hit from the air. " (lost the source)

Q9 : Who did the French sign an armistice with on the day that the Pétain Government set up its headquarters in Vichy, June 24th 1940 ?
2 days after with Germany (and probably one day after Italy declared war) Italy

Q10 : Who said "I made a mistake, I will pay for it with my life, if my life can still serve as payment"
a) Rudolf Hoess Commandant of Auschwitz?
b) Mussolini?
c) German Field Marshal Keitel?
or
d) German Colonel General Alfred Jodl?

Dunno , gonna guess
A:Hoess

marcsignal · 16-09-2009 2:35pm

Fair Play bealbocht

I'll leave posting the answers for a week or so in case you have a challenger

Any Takers Lads ????

tricky D · 16-09-2009 2:49pm

Q5 : Who was the only General to land with the first wave of troops at Normandy?

Patton??

Q10 : Who said "I made a mistake, I will pay for it with my life, if my life can still serve as payment"
a) Rudolf Hoess Commandant of Auschwitz?
b) Mussolini?
c) German Field Marshal Keitel?
or
d) German Colonel General Alfred Jodl?

A said some thing along those lines

+Jim+ · 19-09-2009 12:49pm

Q1 : Who were known as the Golden Pheasants ?
A1: Term applied to certain members of the Nazi Party (usually high-ranking)

Q2 : What was the German code name for the bombing of Coventry on Nov 14-15 1940 ?
A2: Moonlight Sonata?

Q3 : What was the Allied 'Operation Gambit' ?
A3 : c) The British submarine mission that went in close to the French coast in advance of the Normandy landings

Q4 : How did the Germans let the British know, they were aware that the Aircraft on some of the airfields in southern England were made of wood and cardboard?
A4 : When the British government decided to commence construction of decoy airfields (headed by Colonel Sir John Turner), two different types were planned, named as 'Q' and 'K' sites.'K' sites were daytime airfields equipped with dummy aircraft, while 'Q' sites operated at night and tried to lure the enemy with sets of lights arranged to look like a real operational airfield. In October 1941, a German reconnaissance plane was shot down over Britain and among the items recovered from the wreckage was a map with half of the 'K's clearly marked as decoys.
Sources: http://www.websitedcm.com/boulmer/1940.htm
D-day deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy invasion By Mary Barbier

Q5 : Who was the only General to land with the first wave of troops at Normandy?
A5 : Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (4th Division) landed with the first seaborne assault wave on Utah Beach.

Q6 : What did the initials SHAEF stand for?
A6 : Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

Q7 : Other than the British, which nations had the most, and the least number of squadrons in the RAF by the time the Allies invaded France.
A7 : Care is needed here to distinguish between available figures of RAF squadron strength at the time of Battle of Britain (1940) and the invasion of France (1944) I haven't been able to find figures accurate as of June 1944 so my answer will be an estimate based on the 1940 figures.
Most: Poland
Least: Palestine

Q8 : Identify the first U.S ship attacked by enemy fire in 1941?
A8 : US merchant ship Robin Moor, attacked and sunk by U-69 (Kptlt. Metzler), 21/05/1941. Condemned and denounced by Roosevelt, becomes another argument for US entry into the war
sources: http://www.usmm.org/ww2.html
http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/war-at-sea/atlantic/battle-of-the-atlantic-index-1941.htm

Q9 : Who did the French sign an armistice with on the day that the Pétain Government set up its headquarters in Vichy, June 24th 1940 ?
A9 : Italy

Q10 : Who said "I made a mistake, I will pay for it with my life, if my life can still serve as payment"
A10 : I can find evidence to show that all four men at one stage made statements similar to the above, but no evidence to show that the above quote is attributable to any one of the four. I guess I'll go with Rudolf Hoess.

Phew, that was a lot of work.
Jim

marcsignal · 19-09-2009 2:25pm

nice 1 lads

keep em coming

answers will be posted in a few days

marcsignal · 28-09-2009 3:08pm

Sorry for the delay in posting the answers lads

Q1 : Who were known as the Golden Pheasants ?
A : The select group of Nazi Officials who were permitted to wear the gilded swastika.

Q2 : What was the German code name for the bombing of Coventry on Nov 14-15 1940 ?
a) Moonlight Sonata?
b) Operation Greif?
or
c) Operation Cicero?
A : Moonlight Sonata

Q3 : What was the Allied 'Operation Gambit' ?
a) Cardboard and wooden aircraft and tanks assembled in Southern England to decieve German air reconnaissance?
b) The false info fed to the Germans regarding the Normandy landings, suggesting it would take place in Calais?
or
c) The British submarine mission that went in close to the French coast in advance of the Normandy landings ?
A : C - The British submarine mission that went in close to the French coast in advance of the Normandy landings ?

Q4 : How did the Germans let the British know, they were aware that the Aircraft on some of the airfields in southern England were made of wood and cardboard?
A : They dropped dummy wooden bombs on them.

Q5 : Who was the only General to land with the first wave of troops at Normandy?
A : Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, 4th Division on Utah Beach.

Q6 : What did the initials SHAEF stand for?
A : Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

Q7 : Other than the British, which nations had the most, and the least number of squadrons in the RAF by the time the Allies invaded France.
A : The Canadians had 42 squardons and the Yugoslavs had 1

Q8 : Identify the first U.S ship attacked by enemy fire in 1941?
A : A German U-Boat attacked the Robin Moor, a freighter, on May 21st 1941.

Q9 : Who did the French sign an armistice with on the day that the Pétain Government set up its headquarters in Vichy, June 24th 1940 ?
A : Italy

Q10 : Who said "I made a mistake, I will pay for it with my life, if my life can still serve as payment"
a) Rudolf Hoess Commandant of Auschwitz?
b) Mussolini?
c) German Field Marshal Keitel?
or
d) German Colonel General Alfred Jodl?
A : Mussolini

Great effort lads !! Looks like (taking a few technicalities into account) +JIM+ wins the sticky bun this week, but it was a pretty close call, Well Done +JIM+

but just to clarify, on a few of the answers requested:

Q4: Was in relation to the period coming up to the D-Day Landings, when in April 1944 a German Recon Aircraft dropped wooden bombs on an American Decoy Airfield in southern England. Despite this a point was awarded to +Jim+ for his answer, which is also technically correct.
The example I gave was sourced from a Documentary about Jasper Maskelyne

Q5: Was related to the Normandy beach landings, as opposed to operations that took place beforehand. However Bealbocht earned a point for his answer to that one for the additional info supplied (which I wasn't aware of).

Q7: Related to Squadrons as opposed to Foreign Pilots serving in the RAF

if there are any further queries ? just post

Will post another 10 later this week ....

bealbocht · 02-10-2009 8:08pm

Extra point for
"I could have kissed that cow"

Its a great phrase, in the context.

They were good questions. I had to research all of them , execpt the Italy one. Dont know if I could put similar up, but will look into it.

On another note, I was in the Ilac Library (dublin) and was looking at the newspaper archives. (this was the online stuff, normally pay-per view, but free in the library)
I was actually looking up the 3*/4/5 July 1916, and it was an increadible read.
Battle of the Somme stuff. Naturally they forgot to mention the huge carnage. But more or less, the whole front page was given over to war reports.
But there a great little paragraph about , there still being marshal law in Dublin, and a question was put to Asquith, "did he think , perhaps it was time to lift the marshal law, as it would aggrivate the locals".
Asquith, did not agree! Also various other stuff about home rule, redmond and the Ulster unionists. And there was talk of partition. in 1916 ffs. It was obviously alwasy on the cards, so no wonder DeV would not to the treaty negoiations.

but anyway,, WW1 stuff I know, but point being, I would highly recommend anyone to use the service, if they get the chance, to look up similar to see how it was reported in Ireland at the time.

*oddly enough, the first thing that really struck me, was that the 1st July, (first day of the somme) was a saturday. (dont ask why, unless you have a lot of time on your hands)

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