It's time for another WW2 quiz!

You know the rules. If you get it right you ask the next one. Also try to stick around for a little bit if you ask a question. Bit annoying to answer the question 2 minutes after it was posted and not get told you got it right for 22 hours.

Q: What was the Wehrmacht?

 

If I recall the Wehrmacht was the German infantry.

 

Gonna have to go with no.

 

One more guess then I'll let someone else take a crack at it. The Wehrmacht was also a generic term for the combined German infantry, luftwaffe, and kriegsmarine?

 

Yes. It was the German Defence Force.

 

Right now I remember. I keep mistakenly associating "Defense Force" with "Schutzstaffel".


So my question will be geared a bit more towards war tech. Why was the first German assault rifle was originally designated as a submachine gun?

A hint for less gun savy readers: A submachine gun fires pistol cartridges while an assault rifle fires a rifle cartridge so there is a difference between the two.

 

StG44.....

 

The STG44 was originally designated the MP43. You got the right model, but do you know why it was named differently earlier?

 

Hitler had ordered that only new MP (Submachine Guns in English) were to be developed. To hide what they were developing they gave it the Machinenpistole label.

 

SS means Protection Squad.

 

We have a winner.

 

What was the heaviest AFV to see combat?

 

The Germans did a lot of experimenting with super heavies but most of them were just prototypes. Going to take a shot in the dark and guess the Jagdtiger tank destroyer.

 

That would be correct.

 

haha looks like playing World of Tanks is paying off.

Which WWII sniper had the most confirmed kills, a record which to this day has never been surpassed.

 

Simo Hayha, also known as The White Death, a Finnish sniper, who achieved 505 sniper kills in 100 days during the Winter War.

 

With an additional 200ish kills with an SMG and survived getting shot in the face. Anyway I'll let someone else have a crack at answering questions.

 

What were Hobart's Funnies?

 

No.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise_heavy_assault_tank
Weight 79 t
7 tons heavier, than Jagdtiger.

 

Wrong again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Ilyich_Surkov
702 confirmed kills

 

Helps to read the question.

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You'd think if he was the most successful they would have written more of him.

Simo still wins.

 

Ah, well, if "saw combat", then yes, Jagdtiger.

Weak argument. Surkov wasn't used as a propaganda tool, unlike Zaytsev or Hayaha.

Zaytsev remains the most known Soviet sniper. In fact he wasn't even in top 10.

 

Historians always list Hayha as the sniper with the highest record. Even a quick search for the guy you're claiming comes up with almost no information on him. It's well known though that the Soviets vastly boosted the claims of their snipers to look better.

 

You havn't read my previous post. As I said the guy wasn't used as propaganda tool-------->little info on him.

That is kinda what Dgormany was doing. Busting it's statistics to make Aryans look better. Thus "destroying" more aircrafts and tanks there were at current part of the front in one day,for one. Kinda like Ferdinand, which were only a tiny fraction of Germany armored forces, "destroying" 500 tanks at Kursk, despite only 1500 avaliable at the front. Add loses by other vehicles, AT artillery, air attacks, mines, infantry, mechanical falures. Makes you wonder how the succesful counter-offensive was done with no armor left.

USSR was the only country, which adopted special training and a doctrine for snipers. So no surprise if Soviet snipers had good result. Which, of course, doesn't mean other armies had none.

 

Just google the answers you sillies. No one will know.