4th Cumulative WW2 Quiz

[Cutlass]

Was it that there was a radio navigation device which triangulated possition from 2 radio signals, and it was too confusing to accurately use?

 

[Adler17]

No, it were guns behind the cockpit of the night fighters firing in an angle straight above the night fighters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schräge_Musik

Schräge Musik= Jazz

Adler

 

[nonconformist]

Adlers right

Cutlass, you're talking about X-Gerat

 

[cidknee]

yeah mine were total wags.... wild a** guesses.... i didnt even think of the nightfighters.

 

[nonconformist]

It ws a bit of a sneaky question.....needed some lateral thinking

 

[FriendlyFire]

The cold water caused the defected steel to become brittle and the ships broke into at the welding seam (or was it rivets?).

Ouch and I thought the Japanese HachiHachi ships were bad !!!

 

[nonconformist]

Damnit Adler, on CFC it takes more courage to not post a question than advance...or something

 

[Adler17]

We all know the Victory or Liberty class ships. They were standard ships, i.e. built in sections to cope with the losses. But what was the German kind of standard ship?

Adler

 

[C~G]

We all know the Victory or Liberty class ships. They were standard ships, i.e. built in sections to cope with the losses. But what was the German kind of standard ship?

Adler

What kind of standard ship?

All I remember as I'm not exactly the expert in german language and neither in german navy (except in some cases of U-boats ) are Deutschland class (having something to do with ship named that was build in line with the limits of treaty of Versailles) and Bismarck Class (that of course was made of German most heavy battleships).

 

[Adler17]

Perhaps I was a bit vague. Standard merchant vessel to cope with the losses of ww2. The Germans had also their program, like the US Liberty ships. How was it called?

Adler

 

[C~G]

Perhaps I was a bit vague. Standard merchant vessel to cope with the losses of ww2. The Germans had also their program, like the US Liberty ships. How was it called?

No, you weren't that vague, my brains seemed to be on holiday when I read your question.

And I have no idea.

 

[Dragonlord]

Perhaps I was a bit vague. Standard merchant vessel to cope with the losses of ww2. The Germans had also their program, like the US Liberty ships. How was it called?

Adler

We did??? I hadn't realized we had any sea commerce at all in WWII, apart maybe from the Baltic..

I'll be interested to hear the answer here...

 

[Mowque]

the German's? i don;t even have a guess......might be intersting

 

[Adler17]

Yes, we had. I am very aware that this question is VERY difficulty. For that reason I allow direct search via Wiki or google.

Adler

 

[Adler17]

All right: No one got it. It is indeed very difficult to answer: It is the Hansa Program. A program to replace the lost ships for the ship owners. There were three types of merchant vessels and three types tugs. The Merchant vessels were of 3.000 t to be carried (Type A, 1.923 GRT, 10 kn), 5.000 t (Type B, 2.819 GRT, 11 kn) and 9.000 t (Type C, 5.300 GRT, 12 kn) and tugs with 350, 600 and 1.000 HP.
All were coal fired. Of the Type A 52 ships of 126 were delivered until May 7th, 1945, of 55 Type B ships only 5 were completed and a single one of the Type C out of 11, the SS Nikolaifleet of the Hamburg Amerika Linie. Although 2 1.000 HP Tugs were launched, none was completed. 9 of the Type A were war losses (one of them was raised but scuttled again), 2 of the Type B, too as well as the Nikolaifleet, which was sunk off Norway by a Norwegian MTB in January 1945.
The German sea lanes to protect were as vital for Germany as the British were. Indeed not only the routes in the relative safe Baltic, but also to Norway were vital. While here the German sea lanes were never really in danger the sea lanes to Japan were, except some blockade runners and submarines, closed. In the Med the situation was more difficult due to the inactivity of the Italians. After 1943, the fall of Italy and the (re-)conquest of the Dodecanese the situation was there problematic, but until the end of the war the Dodecanese was German. It is not true to think the Germans had only their merchants in the Baltic.

Adler

 

[FriendlyFire]

Another question quick someone.

 

[Cutlass]

k.

The US flew B29s against Japan from India before the Pacific island airfields were ready. Some were lost in the Himalayas. There was a plan to use helicopters to rescue air crews. Why did it fail?

 

[Illdisposed]

The helicopters could not attain needed altitude?

 

[DarthNader]

Is it that...
helicopters in existence during that time did not have the horsepower, the range, nor the passenger capacity to get to and rescue B29 crews in the Himalayas?

 

[Cutlass]

The helicopters could not attain needed altitude?

The helicopters couldn't get above 7000 feet above sea level, and the base was nearly that high to begin with.

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