2nd WW2 Cumulative History Quiz

[FriendlyFire]

ANSWER:
5130: Combat aircraft (Army/Navy)
5000+: Of which were trainers (These were considered slow thus extremely vunreable in addition they carried small payloads of bombs. This number is suprising even when you consider the duplicte effets of Army / Navy rivalry)

Combat aircraft:
2500: Army (Of these 1600 Kamikazes)
2600: Navy (Of these 1400 Kamikazes)

Final Total : 10130
(This number includes even the prototype and experimental aircaft which were already flying combat mission against US Air Forces)

 

[CruddyLeper]

Some of those trainers were actually used to attempt to intercept B-29s...

... Great book to look out for;I was a kamikaze by Ryuji Nagatsuka. A Lightning (?) shot him down before he made his attack run.

 

[cidknee]

ok so did anyone win? if not who turn is it

 

[Dragonlord]

I think it's Cidknee's turn to ask....

Yours!! So get cracking...

 

[steviejay]

well no one got the number on the nose, but you (Cidknee) was closest with 12,725.

so go for it. and make it easy

 

[cidknee]

ok ill do my best...
who was the youngest US serviceman off ww2 and how young was he

 

[Dragonlord]

ok ill do my best...
who was the youngest US serviceman off ww2 and how young was he

No one seems to have a clue - how about answering this and asking again? Don't want this thread to die...

 

[FriendlyFire]

Yeah just to hard.

I know a lot of troops which fought ww2 were in fact very young. From Russian milita to desperate scatch units of the Germans.

 

[steviejay]

yeah, I heard of 7 and 8 year olds fighting for the Germans. instead of a cigarette rashion they got a sweet rashion but that ain't the question... which I dunno

 

[Adler17]

There is a German movie "Die Brücke" in which teenagers defended a bridge bravely which was unimportant. A former friend of the family fought against the Russians at the eastern front. He told me he shot the Russians with his gun from the top of a church tower. He was still a bit proud. He was 16 IIRC. He died last year.
The youngest US soldier? Hmm guess: 14???

Adler

 

[Sgt.Hellfish]

12 i cant really see younger and ive heard of 14yr olds being taken into the RAF

 

[privatehudson]

14 year olds were also allowed to serve in the Merchant Navy IIRC, I'd guess that on the basis it may be the same for the USA.

 

[CruddyLeper]

12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. The recruiter must have been blind...

EDIT: Assuming I'm right... and PLEASE wait for confirmation that I am right before answering this one (got to leave the net for a day or so)...

... What was the masterplan for marking Allied progress in the Normandy countryside after the invasion (Overlord) was launched?


EDIT: I don't mean the methods used after the landings - what did Leigh-Mallory and Co plan to do?

It's so dumb it'll knock your socks off.

 

[cidknee]

12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. The recruiter must have been blind...

EDIT: Assuming I'm right... and PLEASE wait for confirmation that I am right before answering this one (got to leave the net for a day or so)...

... What was the masterplan for marking Allied progress in the Normandy countryside after the invasion (Overlord) was launched?

yes u are right.. I thought that would be easy... and he looked HUGE, he did NOT look lile a 12 yr old. or so the story goes.

as far as the next question? nooo idea

 

[cidknee]

ok there is almost no answer to this question... least not one i can find, I used to condiser myself somewhat and expert on D-Day and well I cant find a bloody thing about this... not in any of my books, not even on google....Im posting cause I dont want this thread to die.

Of course Its gonna be something simple and i have probally miseed it a million times..lol

 

[Dragonlord]

Cruddyleper, no one seems to have a clue - I certainly don't - so go ahead and knock our socks off!

 

[nonconformist]

Number of bombs dropped?

 

[CruddyLeper]

"We'll burn the villages as we advance and the bombers will see the smoke".

Source;- Overlord, Max Hastings (I despise him as a journalist but he writes good history).

Hell of a way to liberate a country, eh?

First to ask, gets the question! Go on, anybody... got some personal stuff to sort out; see this thread for more...

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=111652

 

[steviejay]

I've got a quick one-

What was Adam Eve, Odin, Thor, Loki and Ziu Ziu?

Just cause I don't think the question could be easily answered otherwise here's tips. Think German and Eastern Front

ps @ CruddyLeper - Jesus man, I can't think of anything to say to you, hope you're ok and everything

 

[Serutan]

I believe they were names the soldiers gave super-heavy ( 203mm ?) artillery pieces; used at the siege of Sevastopol.