4th Cumulative WW2 Quiz

[nonconformist]

I think he hid as a Rabbit farmer after the war.

Just goes to show the upper echelons of the Nazis were by and large semi-literate buffoons (excepting old Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels).

Okay guys: Identify please!

I want the name of the weapon, and interesting characteristics!
Clue: type of ammunition and the weapon's paticular raison d'etre.

 

[dutchfire]

It's a dead link?

 

[privatehudson]

I can see the link and know what it is, but I don't really fancy asking the next question, so I'll keep quiet.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I think he hid as a Rabbit farmer after the war.

Just goes to show the upper echelons of the Nazis were by and large semi-literate buffoons (excepting old Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels).

Okay guys: Identify please!

I want the name of the weapon, and interesting characteristics!
Clue: type of ammunition and the weapon's paticular raison d'etre.

Ppsh. It's a Russian machine gun, but that's all I know about it.

 

[privatehudson]

Although there's more than one version of the weapon the barrel of a PPSH is quite different.

 

[Cutlass]

Looks like a grenade launcher. I don't know the details though.

 

[privatehudson]

I'll give it a day or two and if no-one's got any closer I'll reply. I might need time to find a question to ask

 

[nonconformist]

Ppsh. It's a Russian machine gun, but that's all I know about it.

Not even close

 

[Bugfatty300]

PPSh-41/43 series. They fired the bottle-necked 7.62x25mm Tokarev cartridge. Blowback. The third one (the 43 model) was made completely from stamped metal. Soviets liked submachine guns. Especially cheap ones.

I hate those Tokarev cartridges BTW. They are the loudest and most irratating rounds I've seen in a handgun. They sting your ears even with protection.

 

[privatehudson]

Didn't Nonconformist just rule out the PPSH as the answer?

Besides, as the photos I posted show, although there's some similarity on first sight the PPSH has a distinctly different barrel to the gun in question.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Ha no wonder. I was looking at YOUR pics PH.

That is a DeLisle carbine with a Lee-Enfield action in 45 ACP. Used by British Commandos in WWII. Used a M1911 magazine.

 

[privatehudson]

Oh please, that would have been way too easy a question

 

[Bugfatty300]

Yeah I thought it was weird that nobody had got it yet.

 

[nonconformist]

Correct on all accounts Bugfatty


To clarify for observers, when Bugfatty said it was used by commandoes, he means the carbine was silenced, hence the large sleeve around the barrel that Cutlass thought resembled a grenade launcher.

Out the bottom you can see the magazine feeder, whcih accepted exactly the same magazines as in the Colt .45 pistol

 

[cidknee]

not too many of those around.. good job bugfatty@

 

[Bugfatty300]

Let me add that the 45 ACP was a subsonic slug which made it quieter than most silenced weapons which is why the gun wasn't made in 9mm Parabellum. Ian V. Hogg said in one of his books that they were very accurate for such a mongrel gun and that supposedly an official who was testing the DeLisle "took the head off of a duck" at 300 meters. They made some with folding stocks also.

Ok my turn I guess.

Yeah, another gun one. So sue me. Name the gun.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

SVT-40. This time I'm positive.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Sorry Cheese. Thats not correct. Na just kidding. You got it!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

There is a man of great legend in India, who left his native country after being locked up by the British for staging violent protests against the declaration of war. After a wild adventure through the Northwest Frontier Province and Afghanistan, he travelled through the Soviet Union to Germany, where he spoke on Radio Berlin, calling for all Indians to revolt against their British masters, and for expatriate Indians to join the Axis war effort. In 1943 he travelled by U-Boat to Singapore, where he took control of the former Indian garrison that surrendered there and led them in battle against the British in Southeast Asia. He died in a mysterious plane crash in 1945 over Taiwan, though many Indians still believe, either truly or for fun, that he will return to lead India in socialist authoritarianism one day.

Who is this man?

 

[aronnax]

Subhas Chandra Bose is the man!
He was in my school textbook. Though, I had to look through it to remenber his name.