3rd Cumulative WW2 History Quiz

[Adler17]

The German FlaK batteries were not told of the attack called "Bodenplatte". So the returning planes were attacked by friendly fire and some of the best German pilots died senselessy. BTW: Hundreds of allied planes were destroyed on ground by this attack.

Adler

 

[privatehudson]

Fortunately the allies could easily replace planes and pilots. The Germans could not.

 

[cidknee]

The German FlaK batteries were not told of the attack called "Bodenplatte". So the returning planes were attacked by friendly fire and some of the best German pilots died senselessy. BTW: Hundreds of allied planes were destroyed on ground by this attack.

Adler

indeed... was nice that they succeeded against such odds. sucked to have the friendly fire incident. Whoops.....good job adler.

btw sorry for taking so long i had a family emergency... ciao

 

[Adler17]

Hoping the best with your family.
Okay, but since I had the question before I skip to the next who posts.

Adler

 

[meisen]

If nobody minds, I'll jump in with an easy one (hopefully not already asked).

What is the name of the only dreadnought type battleship to have sunk an enemy submarine in wartime?

 

[CruddyLeper]

Dreadnoughts were active in WW2?

I guess possible, since a WW1 tank was used as a command post in WW2.

 

[meisen]

Dreadnoughts were active in WW2?

Sorry about that, the incident I was thinking about happened in WW1 so I will withdraw the question. Got busy reading the thread and forgot the questions had to be about WW2.

(BTW, the battleships built after WW1 are technically of the dreadnought type as the term describes battleships post Dreadnought with a large number of single calibre main battery.)

Can't think of a new question right now. Anyone else?

 

[YNCS]

This is a U.S. Navy aircraft from WW2. What is it's designation?

 

[meisen]

I believe that is a Grumman F5F.

 

[Dreadnought]

I believe that is a Grumman F5F.

You're right it is.

 

[meisen]

Should I wait for the question asker to confirm?

Edit:

Should've waited

Done.

 

[Dreadnought]

Should've waited, but whatever...

 

[Adler17]

I don´t think it is a Grumman F5F, since, IIRC, this plane had actually only one motor...

Adler

 

[meisen]

Adler

I have a couple of books, unfortunately still packed in storage, that have quite a bit of info on this aircraft. Reminded me a lot of the Westland Whirlwind, similarly laid out. Similar performance, too, but that of the Whirlwind was little better. I don't remember why this model was never selected for mass production, but its design became the basis from which the later F7F Tigercat was developed from, if I remember right.

The Grumman fighter line up went something like this:

F2F & F3F - 1 engine biplane fighters
F4F - Wildcat
F5F - the 2 engine mystery plane below
F6F - Hellcat
F7F - 2 engine Tigercat
F8F - Bearcat
F9F - post ww2 jet, Panther I think

Not sure of their fighter aircraft before or after these.

 

[Adler17]

I made the error to mix up F6F with F5F. Thanks.

Adler

 

[meisen]

Adler

Easy to do with USN aircraft designations. Even the same type and model of aircraft built by different manufaturers, (IE: subbed out production) got completely different designations. If the same type of spare parts also had different part numbers for different companies making them, one can imagine the logistics nightmare.

I'm going to be working on my computer over the weekend (reinstalling windows to start with) and who knows what might happen or how long it takes to get it back working decently. So if someone wants to ask their own question, go ahead. (Once YNCS confirms the F5F designation, I mean).

 

[YNCS]

I'm sorry. RL kept me from coming here until right now.

Yes, the aircraft is an F5F. Actually, an XF5F-1, but I'll accept F5F.

 

[meisen]

I've been running around too. Never even got a chance to work on my computer so that'll have to wait till maybe the weekend or later. I'll go ahead and post a question in the meantime...

In 1944, the Luftwaffe instructed its fighter pilots to avoid combat with a certain Soviet fighter below the altitude of 5000 metres. Can anyone name this Soviet fighter?

 

[Fundamentality]

The La-5 Fighter?

 

[meisen]

The La-5 was a great low altitude fighter quite able to deal with the FW190 & Me109 low down, especially the La-5FN and later models. But I've never seen anything about the Luftwaffe telling their fighter pilots to avoid combat with that plane.

Sorry, it was a different aircraft that I'm thinking of.