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Adler17 said:
Ahem in my first post I gave the names of the class. I only want respectfully to know why that didn´t count?

Adler
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Because although the classes might be wrong, I can show you lots of sites and books which make that mistake too so i thought it didn't really matter and that I shouldn't have asked about the classes anyway :)
simple as that :)
But if you have some seriously good question ready, by all means, go :D
I don't think PantheraTigris will mind ;)
 
Damn straight you will yield to me. :p j/k It's just that simple... Germany only had two (2) true BB-class ships in commission during WWII. I don't see what all the controversey is about. :hmm: Every type/ship/class/etc listing I've ever seen showed Germany listed as only having 2 BB's... the Bismarck and her sister ship the Tirpitz.

Lots of wanna-be's though. "I coulda been a contenda!" "I coulda been a battleship!" :rolleyes:

Alright, since you have such a good question, let's get on with it, here's a fairly easy one:

What was the BB #, name, and date of commission of the last new battleship the U.S. Navy recieved in WWII? What an easy question. Gah! :p
 
It is BB 63 USS Missouri, which was commissioned on June 11 1944. Her sistership USS Wisconsin, BB 64, was commissioned on April the 16th and was so not the last US battleship commissioned.
Oh the Scharnhorst class was classified as battleships, armored as battleships as big as battleships and only the guns were not as big as normal battleships.

Adler
 
Alright, that was the first part of the question, now - list all U.S. aircraft carrier vessels in WWII, all 100+ of them. Must include the type (CV/CVL, etc), ship name, class, theater(s) of action, Captains of each ship, date of commission, and date of final fate in WWII, if applicable.

Then, provide the same list of their German counterparts, for comparison. :p

No, no... j/k... Go ahead, ask a question. Ask "List all U.S. PT-boats & destroyers in WWII, and each of their skppers." C'mon! I dare ya! :mischief:
 
Yes, it is his question. He is no doubt preparing revenge after I so insulted/ spoke da truth regarding Germany only technically having 2 true battleships in WWII. 'Light battleships', 'attack battleships', 'heavy battle cruisers', and the like. Poseurs, all. :p

I fully expect a come-back, after that controversy. Standby to be asked, "List all U-#'s, 'Typ', and Captains' name & rank of each 'U-boot', date of commission, and going into MS paint (or whatever), and draw an accurate sketch of the each boat's symbol that was painted on the conning tower, to acompany each U-boat listed..."

:eek:

"also, list the number of torpedoes fired by each..."

"and the type of torpedo"

"and out of which tube they were fired"
 
Rik Meleet said:
List all 3 million german soldiers participating on the first day of Barbarossa, including rank and commanding officer.
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This gave me a good chuckle.
 
a) Walter "Nowi" Nowotny (Austria), 258 victories.

b) Tetsuzo Iwamoto (Japan), 142 confirmed kills (possibly 202 or more kills).
 
Rik Meleet said:
I'm glad it did, but that is no reason to have it in your signature. And with a misspelled "RIK". Would you please remove the quote from your signature?
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Sorry, will do.
 
Well Austria was in this time part of the Reich and should not considered to be a non German pilot. Also Iwamoto is not the Nr.1 in the Pacific theatre. I know it is a bit difficult with the number of Japanese air victories, so I modify my question: Give only the Japanese name (indeed it was a Japanese pilot). On the European theatre you have to give both, name and number of kills.

Adler
 
Click - Austrian aces of WWII.

You don't want him? How about Eino Ilmari Juutilainen of Finland; with 94.17 - (92 officially) (he says approx 120)... he would be #2, after Nowotny, in terms of 'non-German' aces.

And there's no one listed as having more than Tetsuzo Iwamoto, in the Pacific. Hiroyoshi Nishizawa is listed comfortably as #2.
 
I should clarify, he (Juutilainen) would be '#2' in Europe, after all those other Austrian aces that had more than him, who were most decidedly 'not German'.
 
Btw, here is the page of Finnish WWII flying aces.

...notice the planes have Swastikas on them. And who was trying to tell me a little while back that Finland was most certainly NOT in the Axis.... :rolleyes:

uh-huh... ;)
 
To the question: Panthera Tigris has named both pilots. Hiroyoshi Nishizawa is according to my sources (87- 113 air victories) the Pacific and world´s best fighter (without German) pilot.
http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/RAFAQ/aces.html
http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=921
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/godi/Knowhow/aces/aces.htm
http://www.frenkenstein.com/ww2/pilots/AcesofWWII.htm#japanese
Most sources name Nishizawa as the top fighter pilot. So I think he was it. Nevertheless with Juutilainen the other top ace is mentioned and so it is your turn, Tiger 2.
To Finnland: Finnland was only a German ally. It was NOT part of the axis. As I mentioned before in another thread the US history books are sometimes making it too easy. Despite the things GWB II believes the world is not black or white but grey. Finnland was a democracy. But it fought with the Axis. The Soviets were a dictatureship but fighting with the allies. If you want to make sure what´s going on try to read also the books of the people of that nation involved, if possible. Of course you have to be careful with some subjective point of views. Nevertheless Finnland was only a weapons ally of Germany and not a member of the Axis. Otherwise they would have attacked the Russians much farer and they would have taken Leningrad and the railways to Murmansk.

Adler
 
Moderator Action: Thread reopened. In future, long discussions on answers or side-points shld be restarted as new threads.

Threadjackings shld be reported, so that the quiz can proceed smoothly w/o all the background static. :rolleyes:
 
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