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When you get to the bottom of it can you pardon my curiosity and tell the potato-peeling story? [img]smile.gif[/img]
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February 19th, 2006, 03:08 PM
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Well, rather than wait until next Christmas, it looks like no-ones going to 'get' this one....
Answers were : -
306th BG ( author Lay multiplied by 3 to get the 918th.. )
They flew from Thurleigh
When the top-brass arrived to present heir MOH winner, Sgt. Maynard H ( 'Snuffy') Smith, with his award, he was peeling potatoes as punishment for a regulation infringement....
Next question : 
Germany supplied one Fw 190A-6 to Japan to evaluate during WWII.
What code-name was given to it by the Allies ?
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February 19th, 2006, 11:44 PM
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February 20th, 2006, 06:44 AM
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No - ( hint : it was a person's name... )
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February 20th, 2006, 09:06 AM
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Fred, according to this site: Link
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February 20th, 2006, 09:56 AM
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Congratulations, hamburg - you are absolutely correct, and the next question is yours ! [img]graemlins/salute.gif[/img]
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February 21st, 2006, 06:37 AM
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He was an actor in real life, but it was during the war that he got chosen for a role of his lifetime - impersonating the great general. He was chosen for that role by another famous actor.
Name both actors and the general.
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February 21st, 2006, 03:03 PM
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Ok, complete guess. Clifton James, recommended by Larry Olivier to play Montgomery, since he was his spitting image.
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February 22nd, 2006, 08:12 AM
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Very good, but it was't Lawrence Olivier who recruited James. It was ...?
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February 22nd, 2006, 05:23 PM
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*argh!* Err, John Mills?
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February 23rd, 2006, 05:38 AM
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Sorry, no.
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February 23rd, 2006, 06:44 AM
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David Niven ? I believe he had connections with counterintelligence during the war.....
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February 23rd, 2006, 07:03 AM
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Yes, it was David Niven. Monty's double
Over to you, Martin.
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February 23rd, 2006, 07:58 AM
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Thanks, hamburg - I reckon The Historian should ask the next question ( I wouldn't have got the final part without his answer ! [img]redface.gif[/img] )
Gordon...? [img]smile.gif[/img]
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February 23rd, 2006, 08:30 AM
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Cheers Martin....caught me on the hop there!
Ok. Went the Day Well is a classic British wartime movie, and found echoes in The Eagle has Landed.
Name the original short story-and it's author- on which Went the Day Well was based?
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February 23rd, 2006, 08:28 PM
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' The Lieutenant Died Last ' by a certain Graham Greene.
( Not a lot of people know that !  )
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February 23rd, 2006, 10:07 PM
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Well done Mich...err, Martin, It was indeed The Lieutenant died Last by Graham Greene.  Over to you.
Still think The Eagle has Landed was an obvious rip-off though.
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Here comes what should be a nice easy one....
Which fighter pilot was credited with the most claimed aerial combat victories in one day - a world record which, I believe, stands to this day.
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Hans-Joachim Marseille?
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February 25th, 2006, 07:16 AM
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No...but - hint - you've got the correct airforce...
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February 25th, 2006, 11:25 AM
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Major Emil Lang?
Check the pic in the next site
http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=5482
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Absolutely correct answer, Kai - superb job !
Leutnant Emil 'Bully' Lang flying an Fw 190 with II./JG54 claimed 18 'kills' on one day near Kiev in October 1943.
Over to you.... [img]smile.gif[/img]
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