2nd WW2 Cumulative History Quiz
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Got me then, dont' know damn all about the rest
CruddyLeper
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Tromp. It was a Dutchman.
Tromp. It was a Dutchman.
I was looking at my source for this question and, regarding another topic, I discovered several errors. I then did some further checking. I had thought that Michel de Ruyter had fixed a broom to the mainmast of his flagship. However, three sources, including Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Seapower upon History, informed me that during the First Anglo-Dutch War, after the Battle of Dungeness (30 November 1652). Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp displayed a broom on his flagship's mainmast to signify that he had swept the sea clean of his enemies.
So, CruddyLeper, tag, you're it.
So, CruddyLeper, tag, you're it.
CruddyLeper
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Right. I thought Blake was involved in it somewhere.
I haven't asked many questions with an American angle. So... A very famous, courageous American officer made his military debut scaling a cliff on D-Day as part of a Ranger Engineer outfit. He led the Song Tay raid in Vietnam and also helped exfiltrate 2 American hostages held in Iran by the Shah's government.
Who was he - AND HOW DID HE GET HIS NICKNAME?
I haven't asked many questions with an American angle. So... A very famous, courageous American officer made his military debut scaling a cliff on D-Day as part of a Ranger Engineer outfit. He led the Song Tay raid in Vietnam and also helped exfiltrate 2 American hostages held in Iran by the Shah's government.
Who was he - AND HOW DID HE GET HIS NICKNAME?
alas something I know..CruddyLeper said:Right. I thought Blake was involved in it somewhere.
I haven't asked many questions with an American angle. So... A very famous, courageous American officer made his military debut scaling a cliff on D-Day as part of a Ranger Engineer outfit. He led the Song Tay raid in Vietnam and also helped exfiltrate 2 American hostages held in Iran by the Shah's government.
Who was he - AND HOW DID HE GET HIS NICKNAME?
funny enough from the Son tay raid..
Colonel Arthur D "Bull" Simmons as for the nicname, i dont know. I will continue to look... but I know that there is "simmons hall" on Ft Bragg... for some dumb reason I cant rememebr how he got his nickname,, I know I read it somewhere
CruddyLeper
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Right so far... but as he earned his nickname in WW2, I must insist.
A very fine soldier indeed - and certainly not a general.
A very fine soldier indeed - and certainly not a general.
CruddyLeper said:
i ageree. great man, he cared enough about his fellow man that he planned a rescue operation out of Iran for 2 pll... after he retired... I know he was nicknamed in ww2, but i cant remember why, I read it in a book, about the Son Tay raid.. Tom Clancys "without remorse" got me interested about the real raid and did some research. Found "bull" to be an amazing man and now I cant remember why he got the nic,,, beginning to bug me
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lol, when I first read that question I just laughed to myself and though "John Clark" but that'd be silly 
CruddyLeper
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Well, a contemporary Ranger probably wouldn't know - a veteran from the 1940s would have a much better chance.
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<sigh> It's a sign of the times that few US posters can be bothered with their own heroes.
Ranger training at the time included a game called the Bull Pit. One man would descend into a hole in the ground, his squad mates then had to get him out without using a weapon. Other than that, anything went.
I guess it was to train them in foxhole winkling - and to stick to a position once they were in it.
Anyway, Simons excelled at the game. Legend has it, it took 10 men to get him out.
He denied that - said it never took more than 3. Still pretty impressive, and the tag stuck.
Greg Follet, "On Wings of Eagles". Very good book.
Over to you Cidknee - you were not 100% correct but at least you were willing to try.
Ranger training at the time included a game called the Bull Pit. One man would descend into a hole in the ground, his squad mates then had to get him out without using a weapon. Other than that, anything went.
I guess it was to train them in foxhole winkling - and to stick to a position once they were in it.
Anyway, Simons excelled at the game. Legend has it, it took 10 men to get him out.
He denied that - said it never took more than 3. Still pretty impressive, and the tag stuck.
Greg Follet, "On Wings of Eagles". Very good book.
Over to you Cidknee - you were not 100% correct but at least you were willing to try.
wildWolverine
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9 yards of .50 ammunition in an F4F's ammo belts. To give something the "whole nine yards" was to fire the full belt at a target.
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CruddyLeper said:
In this case, slightly unfair. The credit for the Iranian hostage extraction
here is usually given to Ross Perot, who financed it, and hired Col. Simmons to go in and get them (the hostages were Perot employees).
bingo, and yes perot usually gets the nod, for financing that but i dont think anyone but bull simons could have pulled it off. He was a true legend.wildWolverine said:
and just so u know I relayed that to a friend who is a Rangers right now and his exact words were.. OH %^&^% I shoulda known that.
Carry on good man
wildWolverine
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To steal the question type made popular by Luceafarul, identify the man associated with the following sequence of pictures:
I realize these pics are a bit of a stretch, but it was difficult not to pick pictures that would be too easy... If no one gets it, I will add verbal quotes and or pics from this man.
I realize these pics are a bit of a stretch, but it was difficult not to pick pictures that would be too easy... If no one gets it, I will add verbal quotes and or pics from this man.
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