2nd WW2 Cumulative History Quiz

[dgfred]

Dragonlord got it. Yes it was a question which is in German called Fangfrage (catcher´s question).
Indeed the German Reich was never disbanded but is not able to work since 1945. So on a juristical way it still exist today!
It is over to you, Dragonlord.

Adler

Very sly keeping the 1000 yr Reich going right under our noses groucho.

 

[Dragonlord]

Very sly keeping the 1000 yr Reich going right under our noses groucho.

Right, another 930 odd years to go....

Since RL raises its ugly head and I won't be able to get back here for a couple of days, I'll let Steviejay have the question - he also got it right after all!

Go for it!

 

[steviejay]

I may have gotten it right, but I thought I was talking crap when I wrote it, and I thought I'd get lauged at

Ok, erm......... simple one. What was Operation Nord Wind

 

[Adler17]

Operation Nordwind was the offensive against allied troops in the Alsace in January 1945.

Adler

 

[steviejay]

correct from what I read it was to try to take some pressure off the retreating German troops out of the 'Bulge', your question

 

[Adler17]

IIRC it was a second attack together with the Ardennes offensive, which was also very successfull at the beginning.
But here is my question:
Why was Monica a good chance to die for British bomber pilots?

Adler

 

[nonconformist]

Were they German air-to-air rockets?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

IIRC "Monica" was the name of an IFF system used by the RAF. The Germans learned to use the signals to locate the bombers.

 

[Adler17]

Crazy Eddie is right. It was indeed a British IFF system at the tail of night bombers. They should warn the pilot if an enemy would approach. But because of the swarms in which the bombers flew the pilots mostly put them offline, because the warning was of friendly bombers. This rescued their lives. Nevertheless some British bombers in each squadron had it still online. So it was easy for the German RADAR on the ground and in the night fighters, FuG 226 Flensburg, to detect them up to 120 km. So even long before the attack the Germans knew of the attack. This lasted until the Allies could get a German night fighter and find out of the German ability. At once Monica was forbidden to be used. But until that there were high losses among the British bombers.
Crazy Eddie: Your turn.

Adler

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Ok, here's a question. Crossing the atlantic in 1943, the ship Roosevelt was travelling in was almost torpedoed, the torpedo itself passing so close that it detonated in the wake of the ship. Who attacked Roosevelts ship?

 

[dgfred]

Ok, here's a question. Crossing the atlantic in 1943, the ship Roosevelt was travelling in was almost torpedoed, the torpedo itself passing so close that it detonated in the wake of the ship. Who attacked Roosevelts ship?

A fellow US ship ???

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Near enough. The question has gone unanswered long enough, I don't think anyone else will get any closer. Your question.

The ship was USS William D. Porter (DD579), which was famous in the navy for it's strange doings. During an exercise one of the torpedo tubes was left armed, which caused a lot of panic when a simulated firing wasn't as simulated as it was suppose to be. The entire ship was arrested and sent back to Bermuda for trial, the person responsable for leaving the primer in was sentenced to 14 years hard labour, Roosevelt later intervened to ask that no punishment be meted out as the near disaster had been an accident.
The William D. Porter was for the rest of it's service greeted by other ships with the signal: "Don't shoot, we're Republicans!"

 

[dgfred]

What was Code-name 'Eiche'??? Just one to get us rolling!

 

[nonconformist]

Capture of Eben Emael?

 

[dgfred]

Capture of Eben Emael?

No, but good guess !

 

[Adler17]

Eiche was the liberation of Mussolini by German Fallschirmjäger.

Adler

 

[dgfred]

Eiche was the liberation of Mussolini by German Fallschirmjäger.

Adler

You are correct! Your turn Adler!

Code name (Oak) was German rescue of Mussolini from the Abruzzi mountains
by Otto Skorzeny and a team of German Luftwaffe parachute troops.

 

[nonconformist]

Agh! Knew it had FallscirmJager!

 

[Adler17]

What was H2S? Hint: It is related to another question around here. Oh, and it is not a chemical substance .

Adler

 

[PantheraTigris2]

Sorry guys, I'm too busy to get attached to monitoring this thread (as usual)... but, I, also - shall provide a hint: