2nd WW2 Cumulative History Quiz

[steviejay]

I thought it was the Suez?

 

[cidknee]

wasnt that where they were going to explore the scuttled hulls of the ww2 uboats?
i think i saw it on discovery,,, could be wrong

 

[dgfred]

wasnt that where they were going to explore the scuttled hulls of the ww2 uboats?
i think i saw it on discovery,,, could be wrong

Pretty close but no cigar, you are in the right area thinking of 'hulls of the
ww2 u-boats' --- the u-boat part . I will wait 'til mid-day (it is 9:20am
here) for another answer.

@ Rik- Could you give some details of what you answered? I've never heard
anything about that .

 

[cidknee]

couldnt have been thier enigma machines... im gonna say engines? weapons?

 

[dgfred]

couldnt have been thier enigma machines... im gonna say engines? weapons?

Nope, it was really an 'after' war operation.

 

[cidknee]

arrrrrgh.... i thought they were going to use them for weapons testing.. like for a new ship to ship missle.. " squid" i think.. but there are runours that they were scuttling them to make a point.. like u sank all our ships in the battle of atlantic and well were gonna punish u... DIE U BOAT DIE!!!....i duuno

 

[nonconformist]

Wasn't it the americans stealing all of the U-boars to have something worthwhile tor easearch against the Russkies?

 

[dgfred]

Operation Deadlight- 154 U-boats were taken to British or Allied ports after
the war. 115 of them were sunk off of N. Ireland in a sort of U-boat
graveyard.

Some other U-boat 'facts'- 2,779 Allied ships sent to bottom (14,119,413 tons)
630 U-boats lost @ sea from one thing or another.
30,003 men lost from U-boats.
215 U-boats at wars end were blown up or scuttled.

I give the next question to cidknee for such a good effort .

 

[nonconformist]

Fred-was there any point to them doing that? Seems like spite to me.

 

[dgfred]

Fred-was there any point to them doing that? Seems like spite to me.

What I was reading didn't really say , I will have to further.
The only mention was ship-wreck diving in recent times. I don't think they
needed any technology from the U-boats, but I have no idea why the steel
was not used for scraps, etc..... You may be right on the spite theory. I will
look further.

 

[cidknee]

so what was the actual answer?

how many tanks did hans rundel destroy

 

[Rik Meleet]

(..)@ Rik- Could you give some details of what you answered? I've never heard
anything about that .

Sure; click this link (By the way it was Maskelyne; not Maskeline ... ).

 

[Adler17]

http://www.pilotenbunker.de/Stuka/Rudel/rudel.htm

519 tanks, 1 battleship (Russian Marat), 1 destroyer, 70 landing boats, 800+ motorized vehicle, 150+ artillery positions, 7 fighters, 2 IL 2 Sturmovic, and many other stuff like bunker and so on.
No wonder he was the highest decorated German soldier of ww2 by getting the Golden Oakleave to the Knights Cross. Although his political views are very questionable, since he was the prototype of a Nazi.

Adler

P.S.: According to another source he also sunk a cruiser and destroyed 4 armoured trains.

 

[privatehudson]

I'll say they were questionable, the guy was still spouting off after the war about how Hitler would have won the war had he not been betrayed by the Army

 

[Adler17]

Indeed.

Adler

 

[cidknee]

what a killing machine eh!... and Adler the floor is yours

 

[dgfred]

Operation Deadlight- 154 U-boats were taken to British or Allied ports after
the war. 115 of them were sunk off of N. Ireland in a sort of U-boat
graveyard.

Some other U-boat 'facts'- 2,779 Allied ships sent to bottom (14,119,413 tons)
630 U-boats lost @ sea from one thing or another.
30,003 men lost from U-boats.
215 U-boats at wars end were blown up or scuttled.

I give the next question to cidknee for such a good effort .

to cidknee: "so what was the actual answer?" see above . Still not
sure 'why' they did it yet .

 

[dgfred]

Sure; click this link (By the way it was Maskelyne; not Maskeline ... ).

Thanks Pal ! I'll look through today .

 

[Adler17]

What was the fate of the Italian submarine squadron in Ethiopia after the colony surrendered?

Adler

 

[Rik Meleet]

What was the fate of the Italian submarine squadron in Ethiopia after the colony surrendered?

Adler

It got assimilated into the Allied forces ?