3rd Cumulative WW2 History Quiz

[Serutan]

The answer rather depends on how you define blitzkrieg. Co-incidentally, Crete wasn't the last time the Germans supported an offensive with airborne troops, that was the battle of the bulge.

Yup. that's why I gave 3 answers.

 

[nonconformist]

I wrote an article on the topic actually called the last flight of the eagle. You can find it here

Of course not many troops involved, but then again there was no airborne operations in Poland in 1939 either, so airborne operations are not necessarily the defining factor in the question I'd say.

Wow, that's incredible. Ithought that Crete would have been the last FJ operation for obvious reasons, though Ik now they fought in Normandy and in Italy with distinction.
As well as Skortzeny's rescue of Mussolini.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well so far no one has got it correct. There is a slight trick to the question. The operation I'm talking about was a massive affair and qualifies as a blitzkrieg by any normal definition I think. I'll accept the codename of the operation or a more general definition of it. 1.5 million men, 3000 tanks, 5000 aircraft, paratroops.

 

[nonconformist]

By Blitzkrieg, do you refer solely to the German army, or by any nation?

 

[Zardnaar]

By Blitzkrieg, do you refer solely to the German army, or by any nation?

Never specified Germans only

 

[nonconformist]

Never specified Germans only

Ah, sneaky.
Not D-Day?
Or Operation Watchtower?

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Barbarossa?

Edit: okay, scratch that, I just flicked back a page and read the question.

 

[Zardnaar]

Ah, sneaky.
Not D-Day?
Or Operation Watchtower?

No. Here you have to be sneaky otherwise people guess your question in an ansewer or 2. I'm confident my question wasn't to vague and someone will get it soon.

 

[privatehudson]

I'll take a guess at pretty much the last major ground offensive of WW2, namely Russia attacking Japanese held Manchuria in 1945.

 

[Serutan]

Oh. Operation Bagration in June 1944. Red Army smashes Army Group Center into very tiny bits, and
advances from the Dnepr to the Vistula.

BTW, The Soviets called this type of thing a "Deep Operation", not "Blitzkreig".

 

[nonconformist]

Yeah, but if you listened to everything the Sovierts said

 

[Zardnaar]

I'll take a guess at pretty much the last major ground offensive of WW2, namely Russia attacking Japanese held Manchuria in 1945.

Correct. Operation August Storm. An often overlooked or forgotten battle. Some people forget WW2 ended in September 45 instead of May 45. Tecnically Japan is still at war- they never signed a peace treaty. Your turn.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Has to be Manchuria. In 9 days the Russians captured an area the size of (Western) Europe 1000 miles (N-S) by 800 miles (E-W).
A lot quicker than the Germans did. In the early days of Barbarossa the advance was about 300 miles a month. Russia did 1000 miles in 9 days.

Edit: wicked X-post ...

 

[Zardnaar]

Has to be Manchuria. In 9 days the Russians captured an area the size of (Western) Europe 1000 miles (N-S) by 800 miles (E-W).
A lot quicker than the Germans did. In the early days of Barbarossa the advance was about 300 miles a month. Russia did 1000 miles in 9 days.

Edit: wicked X-post ...

Private Hudson got it 1st. Was the question a fair one? I would describe is as a Blitzkrieg.

 

[Serutan]

I think it would have been more fair to call it a "blitzkreig type"
operation.

 

[privatehudson]

I pass onto someone else.

 

[nonconformist]

Come on, Hudson, dazzle us with some obscure knowledge

 

[Zardnaar]

I pass onto someone else.

How about Rik Meleet?

 

[privatehudson]

Come on, Hudson, dazzle us with some obscure knowledge

Nah, I've kinda got bored with being on a different wavelegnth to everyone else here

 

[YNCS]

What aircraft is shown in this photograph?