A World War II Quiz.

[dgfred]

@ Crazy E- Could you give us other hints , that is a real tough
one .

 

[nonconformist]

A type of depth charge?

 

[CruddyLeper]

Where they related to the "Pillenwerfer" range of submarine countermeasures? Kind of like a giant Alka Seltzer?

 

[nonconformist]

Oh, I know what your on about-isn't that to block ASDIC?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I didn't think this would be too difficult, but Ok, here's a clue:
It was an RAF device, and it (or one of it's successors) caused some friction with the Irish because of misunderstandings about what it was capable of.

 

[privatehudson]

Wasn't that some sort of Jammer for radio signals or something?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

It wasn't really a jammer, but you're on the right track.

I think we'll have to allow internet searching for this one.

 

[nonconformist]

Was it a radar in a truck that gave false signals to the Germans, countering the Kneickebeim or X-Gerat signalls guiding the aircraft to their targets?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Correct!

The German radio navgation beams they used for bombing were a 'headache' for the British, so the countermeasures were given suitable codenames. Dummy signals were broadcast that mimiced the original beams, causing confusion among the German aircrew trying to navigate.
Your question.

 

[nonconformist]

Okay: What was an AVRE, and what did the abbreviation stand for?

 

[privatehudson]

Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers. An example being the Churchill AVRE which carried a large Petard mortar gun in the turret to enable it to shatter bunkers and fortifications in support of infantry landings and such like. It was one of the "funnies" used by the British 79th Armoured Division also IIRC

 

[nonconformist]

Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers. An example being the Churchill AVRE which carried a large Petard mortar gun in the turret to enable it to shatter bunkers and fortifications in support of infantry landings and such like. It was one of the "funnies" used by the British 79th Armoured Division also IIRC

Bah. I've enough of you answering all my questions.
Your go!

 

[privatehudson]

Not my fault honest

Hmm, well...

Who did Zhukov, following an old Russian tradition give the post of commandant of Berlin prior to the NKVD replacing this choice with a more political one?

 

[dgfred]

Maybe Sokolovsky, commander of tank spearheads??? You are forcing me
to read that Berlin book you have been studying .

 

[privatehudson]

Nope, Bezarain, commander of the first Russian army to reach into Berlin. Suvarov (an 18th cent. Russian general) set the precedent back then by placing the leader of the first army into an enemy capital in charge of the city after the fighting was done.

(gave answer due to lack of responses, anyone can go now)

 

[dgfred]

What gun fired a 25ft long, 10,500 lb shell at a rate of 2 per hour.

 

[nonconformist]

The Karl mortar.

 

[dgfred]

No but good guess .

 

[nonconformist]

The Leopold rail gun.

 

[dgfred]

No, but close again. This gun had to be partly dismantled for rail travel.
4,120 men under a major-general were needed to assemble, operate,
maintain and guard the gun .