Let's have a WW2 quiz!

That would be the Yamato. It was fitted with twelve 5 inch guns taken off Mogami class cruisers.

 

That's true and well done (IMO)...but I meant 'main turrets' as in the ones carrying the main/primary guns.

Also, the Yamato's construction began before WW2, btw.

 

What did they take the main turrets off of?

 

The H.M.S. Vanguard was built using 4 - twin 15 inch gun turrets that had been in storage since the twenties.

The turrets came off the bizarre 'cruisers' Courageous and Glorious when they were converted into aircraft carriers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vanguard_(23)

 

What American Infantry regiment earned the nickname, "Devils in baggy pants" from the Germans?

 

I see, good find!

 

504th Infantry Regiment.

 

Correct.

There was an old saying I heard when I was in the 82nd.
"Better a baby in the belly of a whore, than a paratrooper in the 504."

 

You had Rommel in mind? Nearly no German has any idea who Rommel was and you have Rommel in your mind? Good grieve - what a strange world.

http://youtu.be/7hvR5Mp2JQo

1943, kurz vor dem Ende der Nazidiktatur, wurden die Geschwister Sophie und Hans Scholl und vier weitere Mitglieder der Widerstandsbewegung "Die Weiße Rose" in München hingerichtet.

Jetzt haben sie euch zur Legende gemacht
und in Unwirklichkeiten versponnen,
denn dann ist einem - um den Vergleich gebracht -
auch das schlechte Gewissen genommen.

Ihr wärt heute genauso unbequem
wie alle, die zwischen den Fahnen stehn,
denn die aufrecht gehn, sind in jedem System
nur historisch hochangesehn.

Ihr wärt hier so wichtig, Sophie und Hans,
Alexander und all die andern,
eure Schlichtheit und euer Mut,
euer Gottvertrauen - ach, tät das gut!
Denn die Menschlichkeit, man kann´s verstehn,
ist hierzuland eher ungern gesehn
und beschloß deshalb auszuwandern.

Ihr habt geschrien,
wo alle schwiegen,
obwohl ein Schrei nichts ändern kann,
ihr habt gewartet, ihr seid geblieben,
ihr habt geschrien,
wo alle schwiegen -
es ging ums Tun und
nicht ums Siegen!

Vielleicht ist das Land etwas menschlicher seitdem.
doch noch wird geduckt und getreten.
Der Herbst an der Isar ist wunderschön,
und in den Wäldern lagern Raketen.

Ich würd mal so gern - für mein Leben gern
ein paar Stunden zusammensitzen,
doch so nah ihr mir seid, dazu seid ihr zu fern,
trotzdem werd ich die Ohren spitzen.

Ihr wärt hier so wichtig, Sophie und Hans,
Alexander und all die andern,
eure Schlichtheit und euer Mut,
euer Gottvertrauen - ach, tät das gut!
Denn die Menschlichkeit, man kann´s verstehn,
ist hierzuland eher ungern gesehn
und beschloß deshalb auszuwandern.

Ihr habt geschrien,
wo alle schwiegen,
obwohl ein Schrei nichts ändern kann,
ihr habt gewartet,
ihr seid geblieben,
ihr habt geschrien,
wo alle schwiegen -
es ging ums Tun
und nicht ums Siegen!

ihr habt gewartet,
ihr seid geblieben,
ihr habt geschrien,
wo alle schwiegen -
es geht ums Tun
und nicht ums Siegen!

Konstatin Wecker

 

As I recall Patton had read Rommel also, which is one of the reasons Patton admired Rommel.

 

Who was Big X (name and function)?

 

Who is Patton? The guy who died because of an accident with his car so he never came home again?

http://youtu.be/72O__iTEFLw

 

If you're a WW2 buff, why wouldn't you know of Rommel?

 

That would be Roger Bushell. He was a pow, portrayed in the movie "The great escape." He was a squadron leader, who was shot down in 1940. He was pretty much in charge of the escapes, that he took part in. He was killed by the Gestapo after being captured the last time.

 

How many variants of the Junkers JU 87 were there?

 

A-G and I think there was a naval version for the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin.

But that is just an educated guess.

 

Yep, there was A thru G, and a Night harassment variant.

 

Speaking of the Stuka - what was the very unusual feature that it's intended replacement, the 187, had?

 

The tail fin faced down.

Has that been tried in any other aircraft?

 

Very good...not that I have ever heard of.

Your turn.

 

Who was in command of the failed Dieppe raid, on the northern coast of France in 1942?

 

You mean the 'okay Canada...you keep itching to go into battle? We'll send you into battle, get your people slaughtered and then you won't be itching anymore' raid?

Lol.

Louis Mountbattan.

 

Which particular model of fighter plane (supposedly) had a 67.5:1 kill ratio during WW2?

 

Wow, I was going through some information trying to figure this out, thinking at first it was the Mustang, Zero, or Hellcat.

Only to find out it was the Brewster Buffalo!

It seems that Finland bought a lot of these planes, and used them to great effect against the Soviet Air Force. One squadron specifically killed 459 Soviet aircraft, with only 15 losses.

 

Why was Glyndwr Michael, an illiterate homeless man who comitted suicide possibly one of the most important people involved in the invasion of Sicily?