WWII Forums Quiz Part VII

[Slipdigit]

Change that to the USS Stewart.

[skunk works]

Yep

DD 224 USS Stewart

Seen on numerous occasions by U.S. forces who could have "killed" it, but even after the Japanese trunked together her two forward funnels into a "shoe" configuration, and added a tri-pod mast, by those who sighted her deep behind the lines of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere....
and I Quote...."By all that is Holy in the silhouette book, she was American. Plumb bow, flush deck, and two after stacks."

Found at Kure-Hiroshima, lost at Soerabaja.

The Scuttling charges failed to go off, and the Japanese made use of her.

Wonder why nations sink there own ships when the situation becomes untenable ? Don't.

your go Slip

[Slipdigit]

Oops, sorry about the delay, I've been out of town and so forth.

Who said this?

"Is this a step in the direction of an attempt to dominate the world by force?...no greater mistake could be made than to suppose that because of it [Great Britain] believes a war to be a senseless and cruel thing, this nation has so lost its fibre that it will not take part to the utmost of its power in resisting such a challenge if it ever were made."

[skunk works]

Neville Chamberlain, March 17th, 1939

[Slipdigit]

You're all over it Skunk.

Pitch another out there.

[skunk works]

Thanks Slip

Who own(s,ed) the "original" face of GI-Joe ?

[Sloniksp]

Don Levin

or

Robert Mitchum from the "Story of GI-Joe"?

[skunk works]

kind of a screw-up on my part...I meant the "Doll".
Later he took on many faces, but the first one was a representation of a specific persons face.

[Sloniksp]

Here is an article that I found on this....

CNN.com - Original G.I. Joe -- 'grandfather of all action figures' -- up for bid - Jul. 18, 2003

Is this what you had in mind?

[skunk works]

One Marine, One Ship

Sgt. Mitchell Paige, from his exploits on "Bloody Ridge" Guadalcanal.

go ahead Slon, your go

[Sloniksp]

The first German Field Marshal to take his own life?

[skunk works]

Walther Model

[Slipdigit]

von Kluge

[Sloniksp]

I believe that Jeff is correct on this one.... ( unless im mistaken, which would be a little embarrassing )

Kluge ended his life a few months before Rommel which also ended his life in 44' ( forced suicide )

Model met his end in 45'

[skunk works]

Oops yah, had Model on the brain ven I vas reading about Falaise, und ze nasty defeet zuffered zere !

[Slipdigit]

Who commanded the All American Division just prior to Gen Matthew Ridgway?

[skunk works]

Omar Bradley

[Slipdigit]

That's right. Pitch another out there.

[skunk works]

Which warship had the highest armor to total weight percentage ?

[skunk works]

Hint?

Big ship, little guns.

[Slipdigit]

was it a one-up ship or a class of ships?