3rd Cumulative WW2 History Quiz

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had hitler been killed it would be likely he would have sided with rommel rather then the hardline nazis. Some of hes actions and conversations "hint" at this.
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I certainly think he would have sided with them, because he had no problem with overthrowing Hitler, just a problem with the method used and the chaos it caused.

A remark: No SS or any Wehrmacht Elite units were named after Prussians heroes or battles.
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Some were named after German heroes though. Not that it matters since no-one was suggesting there were.
 
i shall pass on my question, im outta town and dont have my resources. Good one PH.
 
A pre-D-Day bombing campaign by the RAF and 8th Air Force in France, Belgium and western Germany. The purpose of the Transportation Plan was primarily the destruction of repair and maintenance facilities and only incidentally the tearing up of trackage and damage to locomotives and rolling stock.
 
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I thought the term was craphats. no wait thats for the marines.
 
The only good marine is a submarine.

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Having just announced that I am an ex-submariner, here's a WW2 submarine question:

What was the MK6 Exploder controversy?
 
Where to start? They plain didn't work. Despite a reported failure rate of 2/3, the design engineers refused to admit a flaw in the exploder. It ended up being a failure to correctly calculate the effects of the torpedo running speed. Tests were done at 33 knots. The torpedo ran (at high speed) at 46 knots in combat. This caused it to run deeper -- I think it was about 10 feet -- than expected. The deeper running depth caused the magnetic exploder to fail. For anything like a head on hit, the contact exploder was destroyed before it could function. I remember something vaguely about the Earth's magnetic field being different in the Central Pacific (where the torpedoes were being used) and the region around the U.S. eastern seaboard (where the torpedoes were tested). Not sure about that.

So I would say the controversy was that the MK6 Exploder manufacturer was more concerned w/ turning a dime than with making a well-designed, robust exploder, leading to the catastrophic failure rate of the MK6 Exploder. This obviously had an adverse affect on the war effort...
 
Rats! Too late...
 
I think it was a less a problem of the Navy learning from the errors than the torpedo manufacturers learning from the errors...

Question: What was "the tennis racket" (translated)?
 
According to David Glantz's Stalingrad, the railroad yard near the Lazur chemical works in Stalingrad was called "the tennis racket" because of its shape.
 
Correct. "Der Tennisschläger" referred to the last remaining Russian bridgeheads in Stalingrad at one point during the battle.

I'm not sure about the thread rules if the question goes to you or not...
 
It does.

Here's an easy one. We all know (or should know) that the B29 which dropped the Hiroshima bomb was named "Enola Gay." What was the name of the B29 which dropped the Nagasaki bomb?
 
tommy_toon said:
Oh oh oh, I think I know it, is it the Bockscar?
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Actually, there is a controversy as to whether it's "Bockscar" or "Bock's Car." Regardless, it was named by its regular pilot, Captain Fred Bock.

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