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July 18th, 2003, 07:43 PM
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Just kidding
The bridges at Mook,Malden and Hatert were blown, the Honinghutje bridge was the forgotten bridge not noticed in the recon by the 82nd.
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July 18th, 2003, 11:40 PM
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who has the question?
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July 19th, 2003, 03:55 AM
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Over to you Popski
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July 19th, 2003, 09:08 AM
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G'day
Martin sorry, but to keep things going
Who developed the American warplans being educated by the "Kriegsmarine".
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July 21st, 2003, 07:01 PM
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G'day
What is your favorite colour?
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BLUE!
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July 22nd, 2003, 07:41 AM
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G'day
Glad somebody knows the question, at least looks at it. The answer to the earlier question was
Lt Col Wedemeyer. He was an officer at the WarPlans Division who had thought of the plan to which the U.S. largely would fight WWII
(Europa Fist). He was at the German Staff College in 1936-1938.
Over to Carl
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Sorry Popski,
excellent question though. I think the guys over here interested in US generals should have known this...I´m unfortunately too deep into the axis forces...
Albert Coady Wedemeyer
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/acwede.htm
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Name the date of the First Intentional and coordinated Kamikaze attack.
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July 22nd, 2003, 04:04 PM
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No worries Kai
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in the spring of 1944 Prime Minister Tojo ordered the first official kamikaze attack
Their first combat sortie was at Leyte in the Philippines on 5 Nov 1944, making three strikes. Altogether, 210 army planes were used as tokkotai (Special Attack}in the Philippines campaign. In the Okinawa campaign, 954 army planes and 1,440 navy planes were lost in tokkotai sorties.
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http://www.danford.net/kamikaze.htm
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Sorry Mate, according to Suburo Sakai, the highest scoring japanese ace to survive the war, it was a different date.
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October 25th, 1944 ?
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July 22nd, 2003, 07:20 PM
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Tallyho! Take it Flying Officer Bull
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One for the archaeologists -
How do you know when you've found a spent MG42 round ? 
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July 23rd, 2003, 06:57 PM
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No takers, hmmm...?
A clue - I'm talking about the propellant case, not the bullet....
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July 23rd, 2003, 08:34 PM
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Hi!
A wild guess, but maybe the extractor left somekind typical "mark" at the case. And ofcource usually there are more than one spent cases at the place where MG 42 had been used.
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That's good enough, Juha !
In part due to the MG42's fantastic rate of fire, the extractor left every casing with a very distinctive dent on ejection.
Looking down on it, the cartridge mouth looks like a 'D' with the straight side bent in. Actually surviving examples are quite scarce as the weapon almost always fired steel-cased ammo so all you usually find is a small pile of rust.
Anyhow, over to Finland for the next question....
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July 24th, 2003, 07:32 PM
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Thanks Martin,
Soviet test pilot Stepan Suprun was the first Russian reported to fly Spitfire.
When? (year and month please).
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July 25th, 2003, 07:07 AM
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OK...in what country the testflight took place?
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Eeh that´s a nasty one, Juha...
As it would be quite simple to say Russia I try something harder:
The Germans got themselves a Spitfire and Stepan Suprun visited Germany before Barbarossa, say autumn 1940, and was able to try the Spitfire...
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Yes, quite...Juha, we obviously didn't make it clear that you should only post easy questions on the Forum... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Seriously, I can't find any reference to this in my Spitfire 'library'. If it helps anyone else get closer to the answer, the first Spitfire ops from Russian territory took place in September 1942 ( RAF PR. MkIV's ). These were then handed over to the Russians, who presented an official request to London on October 4, 1942, for more Spitfires to relieve pressure on the Stalingrad front. 137 MkVBs were duly sent in early 1943....
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Found out that the man died in 1941....
"the famous test pilot S.P.Suprun, who died in 1941.."
http://www.kithobbyist.com/VVS/Model...okryshkin.html
Ehh.... 
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Sherlock Bull : 'Then we must deduce that he did not fly the Spitfire in Russia, Watson'
Kai Watson ' Good gracious, Bull ! Then where did he fly it ??''
Sherlock Bull : ( Lights pipe ) Puff,puff....
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