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Sorry Kai, not correct.
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Generaloberst Hans Jeschonnek. Later committed suicide on 17 Aug 1943 as a result of US and British bombing successes at Regensburg and Peenemünde on that date.
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September 30th, 2003, 11:42 AM
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Correct, over to you T.A.
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Staying with the Stalingrad airlift, what was the date and tonnage flown in on the best day of the airlift?
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succesful day was Dec. 7th, 1942.
362 ton supply was flown in.
http://216.198.255.120/germanpart/airstat.html
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We have a winner! Your turn Kai.
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Thanx T.A.!
Name the Britain's first airborne assault in WW2?
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Bruneval France 27 February 1942. Major Frost (of Arnheim Bridge fame) commanding C company of the 2nd Parachute Battalion, 1st Airborne Division dropped on Bruneval France to take the Würtzburg radar station there, steal the radar and, make off by sea with it. The operation was code named Biting. It also marks the first time commando type units were used for electronic intelligence gathering by capturing vital systems and making off with them.
This was the first operation by British paratroops in WW II.
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X Troop, 11 Special Air Service Battalion Feb 1941. 'Operation Colossus' the attack on the Tragino Aqueduct in Italy.
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Operation Colossus is the right answer.
Over to you Peter!
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Thanks Kai.
Generals Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Alan Brooke, John Dill, Bernard Montgomery and Brian Horrocks.
Apart from North Africa, what did they all have in common?
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It's the first hit when you do a google search with the last names of these commanders: they were all of Irish ancestry.
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Darn google 
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HAha!! I got it....OK, here goes:
OK, the answer to this *should* be in someone's knowledge base, so google hopefully won't be necessary.
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Hiroo Onoda holds the "honor" of being the last Japanese soldier to surrender. He Finally packed it in during 1974, surrendering on Lubang Island in the Phillipines. Several attempts were made to persuade Hiroo to surrender, but what act was required to convince Onoda to give in.
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I know the answer as i used it to explain what the MARINES, in particular, and the Army, and Aussies were up against in the Pacific. They had just shown a TV documentary called "Tarawa, MARINE victory or MARINE Debacle?" My wife asked me if the outfit I respect most was just a mistake. After the man gave in,a few months later, I asked my wife, this question, " How would you like to have been a 17 year old MARINE, raised in a Judeo-Christian environment, who met that jap Lt while all his juices were flowing properly? --And how would you explain a string of total victories, albeit with horrible casualty lists, against such people?" I will let someone else claim the prize. I have already used the Lt. to win an argument at home. Semper Fi
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Was it by getting his brother to talk him out??
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Well said, the fact that this guy surrendered so long after the war shows not only the tenacity of he and hi countrymen, it demonstrates the ability of those men that defeated men of such fanatical resolve.
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Sorry no dice, although they did have family members try to convince him to surrender, he refused those pleas.
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Another try Monty
The Japenese Goverment located his commanding officer who than ordered his to surrender.
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I think Popski got the right answer.
But... to be exact Onoda himself told to a Japanese tourist Norio Suzuki, whom he met at the jungle, that an order from his superior ( Onoda gave the name Maj. Taniguchi) would be needed to have him surrendered.
Tenno heika banzai, Juha
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Popski, you nailed it on the second try, over to you.
[ 04. October 2003, 08:49 PM: Message edited by: Monty Cassino ]
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G'day
I like the answer Juha gave better, so over to Juha.
Ippon Juha
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Popski,
As you answered correct first, over to you.
Regards, Juha
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Well then
Where (what town) did Fairbairn and Sykes get the idea to develop their combat knife??
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This is a two-edged ( ho ho ! [img]redface.gif[/img] ) answer.
The idea for the knife originated in Shanghai where both men served with the Shanghai Municipal Police Force in the '30s. But the 'official' design was put forward whilst both were serving as instructors at the Commando Basic Training Centre at Achnacarry, Scotland ( but you couldn't really classify Achnacarry as a town...)
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