3rd Cumulative WW2 History Quiz

[#1 Person]

Oh my! This sure did catch on. To bad people are asking questions which I have no idea about.

 

[cidknee]

ok PH, i think u can ask another question.. or whos turn is it ?

 

[Serutan]

Since PH didn't pose a new question, the floor is open.

 

[privatehudson]

ok PH, i think u can ask another question.. or whos turn is it ?

I don't really think it's wise for me to, the floor is indeed open.

 

[Serutan]

(I think) a fairly easy one.

Which Soviet port handled the most Lend Lease cargo?

 

[nonconformist]

Ooooh, I know this, it's on the tip of my tongue.
I know it's up near Poljiarny, near Bear Island.

 

[dgfred]

(I think) a fairly easy one.

Which Soviet port handled the most Lend Lease cargo?

Was it Archangel?

 

[Serutan]

Sorry, no.

 

[sydhe]

Would it be Murmansk?

 

[nonconformist]

Oh, you got it.

If I could remember the last time I read USS Ulysses it could have help

 

[Serutan]

Murmansk is also incorrect.

 

[cidknee]

Arkhangelsk was one of the main ones, as well as a southern routing through Iran. and then there was also the alaska to russia route. American pilots would fly planes to alaska and then be flown from there to russia

 

[CruddyLeper]

Vladivostok.

 

[Serutan]

Yep. Primarily because the SU was not at war with Japan, so there was no
interdiction problems there for ships flying the Soviet flag (i.e. all ships
plying between the West Coast of the US an Vladivostok).

Both weather and German inderdiction caused the Murmansk-Archengelsk convoys to
be suspended at times.

IIRC the biggest single source of Lend Lease was the Iran route, but the port was in
Iran, not the SU. Hence the phrasing of the question.

Your question, CL.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I don't really think it's wise for me to, the floor is indeed open.

Hudson are you a WW2 vetern ?
cause that would explain a lot

 

[CruddyLeper]

What was the only operational German bomber with 4 engines?

And I don't mean the Condor - that was a civilian design pressed into military service.

 

[privatehudson]

Hudson are you a WW2 vetern ?
cause that would explain a lot

Nope, I just like the period. I'm around half a century too young to be a vetran

 

[Adler17]

He 177. Although it had only 2 propellors it had 4 engines.

Adler

 

[CruddyLeper]

Absolutely what I had in mind Adler. Apparently a lot of 'em caught fire in midflight - not a nice thing to happen when you're carrying tons of high explosive.

Your question sir!

 

[Adler17]

What was the operation Donnerkeil (thunderbold)?

Adler