3rd Cumulative WW2 History Quiz

[meisen]

Coca Cola!

The drink absinthe came to mind and rye did also. I don't think it was bourbon - not even MacArthur would sink that low.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Bottles yes but beer.... no.

One of the few historical facts that was correct in the movie Pearl Harbour was a quick flash of the bottles that contain this beverage being used in blood transfusions.

What was the WW2 beverage of choice of all these famous people?

I thought it was used by the Germans for Dystantry problems ? Where the liquid was pumped from the rectium into the stomach ?

I think the German term for it was quiliuan (?)
(Ponders on the taste)

 

[nonconformist]

Vodka's also a possibility.

 

[Hornblower]

Coca Cola!

Correct!

There wasn't an American theatre of war in WW2 that didn't have Coca Cola. The american desire for this beverage was such that bottling plants were built all over the world to improve the logistics train for the stuff! I suppose they complicated matters by bottling it in that curvy funny shaped bottle.

 

[nonconformist]

Great question, Hornblower!

Okay, this one's kinda in three parts.
Try to get as many as you can

On April 28th, 1944 Exercise Tiger, a join naval-army exercise on the British shore of Slapton Sands, went terribly wrong, resulting in the death of around 1000 US troops. The survivors were sworn to secrecy.

Easy part:What was the exercise training US troops for?

Medium:What happened to cause such a high deathtoll?

Hard (mayh require lateral thinking):What was the final sad irony of exercise Tiger?

 

[cidknee]

umm wasnt that the preperation for Normandy, or wasnt it Dieppe. I know the transports were spotted by some german "pt" boats..or something like that and alot of ppl died cause of the cold water. i think, but im not 100%

 

[FriendlyFire]

Easy part:What was the exercise training US troops for?

Medium:What happened to cause such a high deathtoll?

Hard (mayh require lateral thinking):What was the final sad irony of exercise Tiger?

- DDAY landings
- Geman torpedo boats vs unarmed LCTs sardined with troops
- US learnt nothing from the exercise

 

[nonconformist]

Yep, you're both correct.
Exercise Tiger was an exercise on a stretch of beach idntical to Utah, to train the American troops that would land on Utah on d-Day.

However the "irony" I referred to was that more died in this exercise (1000) than did landing on Utah beach (around 200)

So, whoever wants it is free to

 

[cidknee]

dbl post..please ignore/delete

 

[cidknee]

Yep, you're both correct.
Exercise Tiger was an exercise on a stretch of beach idntical to Utah, to train the American troops that would land on Utah on d-Day.

However the "irony" I referred to was that more died in this exercise (1000) than did landing on Utah beach (around 200)

So, whoever wants it is free to

go for it FF...but good question. And yes it is sadly ironic

 

[nonconformist]

Okay, I'm gonna revive with a bit of Tidbit knowledge I read today

Early in the war, the British Admiralty ordered that all official Communiques when referencing Iceland should do so in the form "Iceland(C)". Why?

 

[meisen]

Because unofficial communques regarding Iceland had no (c)?

 

[steviejay]

cause they didn't want to get mixed up with the Iceland shops?

 

[History_Buff]

Okay, I'm gonna revive with a bit of Tidbit knowledge I read today

Early in the war, the British Admiralty ordered that all official Communiques when referencing Iceland should do so in the form "Iceland(C)". Why?

Because the code for morse C is extremely similar to morse R, thereby making it really easy to confuse Iceland and Ireland?

If I'm right though, somebody else post another question, I don't have anything good to ask anyway.

 

[nonconformist]

Because the code for morse C is extremely similar to morse R, thereby making it really easy to confuse Iceland and Ireland?

If I'm right though, somebody else post another question, I don't have anything good to ask anyway.

Close enough.

In fact, earlier in the war, a communique had been written ordering a ship to Iceland.
However, the person who wrote it had bad handwriting, and instread the ship ended up in Ireland!

 

[dgfred]

Which German Division was considered the first into the heart of Stalingrad?

 

[nonconformist]

Ah, I hate numbers.
I'll guess the 352nd.

 

[dgfred]

No sir, the number is in the seventies.

 

[cidknee]

wasnt it the romanian one? or am i way off and thinking that it could be the 73rd.

 

[dgfred]

Now you know Hitler would have made dang sure it was a German unit.

Close but not the 73rd.