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3rd Cumulative WW2 History Quiz
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Okay, another piccy:
What was the nickname for this contraption?
What was the nickname for this contraption?
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Nebelwerfer.
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Adler17 said:
Actually, it's not Adler.
If noone tries to guess before later tonight, I'll giver hints
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Cidknee; you've got the designation, but the nickname was.....?
dgfred: thanks. SOme googling got it
dgfred: thanks. SOme googling got it
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Ding, ding ding, Stuka Zu Fuss is correct! Though I thought it meant "Stuka on foot"?cidknee said:
Anyway, your go!
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Ah this looks like a trick question!
I think the one on the right is a captured SdKfz 233 (8 rad) with a 75mm gun given to German recon squadrons to engage enemy armour. They were used on all fronts during the war but this one looks like it might still have the Afrika Korps symbol on the front mudguard.
The tank on the left has me stumped though.
I think the one on the right is a captured SdKfz 233 (8 rad) with a 75mm gun given to German recon squadrons to engage enemy armour. They were used on all fronts during the war but this one looks like it might still have the Afrika Korps symbol on the front mudguard.
The tank on the left has me stumped though.
Adler17
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Stuka zu Fuß means indeed Stuka on foot. This means the Stuka for infantry. Only to make that clear.
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The one on the left is a Panzer II, it looks too small to be a III and I can't think of many other panzers that had that kind of front turret view that looks like it has three gunports (though in reality it had 2 guns). The one on the right is indeed a SDKFZ 233.
My guess given that they're being used by the US would be Tunisia. The Americans didn't really encounter German armour in enough numbers until Kaserine and the Germans had all but stopped using the Panzer II by the time the Americans arrived in Europe*. I don't think the 233 was used in any numbers outside of Africa or the Eastern Front either.
*with the exception of the later Lynx model which looked totally different to that one.
My guess given that they're being used by the US would be Tunisia. The Americans didn't really encounter German armour in enough numbers until Kaserine and the Germans had all but stopped using the Panzer II by the time the Americans arrived in Europe*. I don't think the 233 was used in any numbers outside of Africa or the Eastern Front either.
*with the exception of the later Lynx model which looked totally different to that one.
@PH.. ding ding ding..
They are captured German equiptment in N Afric In 1943.
The tank is a standard Panzer II light tank armed with 20-mm cannon. On the right is the German Sdkfz 233 8-wheeled armored car which had a three-man crew and mounted a 75mm KwK L/24 gun.
so looks like its your go ph
They are captured German equiptment in N Afric In 1943.
The tank is a standard Panzer II light tank armed with 20-mm cannon. On the right is the German Sdkfz 233 8-wheeled armored car which had a three-man crew and mounted a 75mm KwK L/24 gun.
so looks like its your go ph
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Ok I've been reading a campaign book on Arnhem, so forgive me for going back to that topic again
In A Bridge Too Far when Frost's men first hear the sounds of vechicles on the bridge Frost calls out something like "It's XXX Corps!". It turned out to be the lead vehicles of the 9th SS Recce Batallion about to charge across the bridge into the teeth of Frost's defences who would shoot them to pieces.
The film probably has Frost assuming it to be XXX corps (even though they'd have been a whole day ahead of schedule) because 1st Airborne were expecting no armour in or around Arnhem to oppose them. However there was one other very realistic reason for Frost to assume it may have been a British armoured force, what was it?
In A Bridge Too Far when Frost's men first hear the sounds of vechicles on the bridge Frost calls out something like "It's XXX Corps!". It turned out to be the lead vehicles of the 9th SS Recce Batallion about to charge across the bridge into the teeth of Frost's defences who would shoot them to pieces.
The film probably has Frost assuming it to be XXX corps (even though they'd have been a whole day ahead of schedule) because 1st Airborne were expecting no armour in or around Arnhem to oppose them. However there was one other very realistic reason for Frost to assume it may have been a British armoured force, what was it?
I thought I was an expert on this one as well... I've even given battlefield tours of Oosterbeek and Arnhem but this is a tricky question! Or is it just a trick question?
It isn't something to do with the vehicles used in the flm being British is it?
It isn't something to do with the vehicles used in the flm being British is it?
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Not the vehicles used in the film no, and it's not a trick question either 
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Hmmm this was the first initail German attack on the bridge which failed ???
I only now that the Amoured scout cars found a gap between the Germans and were able to make contact with the poles days ahead of XXX corps. But that was only several days before the Bridge head at arnhem as abandoned
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Yup, the famous one made by the 9th SS recce as I mentioned.
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