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February 13th, 2003, 08:44 PM
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Motorcyle troops = Pink
Pioneers = Black
Mountain Artillery = Red
If I had guessed, I would have gotten the first one wrong.
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February 13th, 2003, 08:46 PM
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Didn't Panzer troops wear Pink Waffenfarbe? 
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February 14th, 2003, 04:44 PM
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Its yours PzJgr--great guesses. Actually according to the dates posted for that certain color chart--for Panzerpioneers--I was looking for the Black-White striped waffenfarbe--but I didnt specify. Anyway--you are correct my friend. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Hi Ryan--Panzer did wear Pink. Tha bad thing about these early dates posted for this waffenfarbe color chart is that (Almost anything goes) at that time. Some units didnt even have a waffenfarbe color.
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February 14th, 2003, 06:56 PM
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Well thank you sir. Onward to my favorite topic, only because I know more about this than anything else..............
Sepp Dietrich has been cricized as not being militarily experience and Dietrich has also agreed to an extent. To whom did Dietrich turn to for assistance in leading the Liebstandarte as well as the 1st SS Pz Korps? Name and rank last held please.
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February 14th, 2003, 07:22 PM
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Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Fritz Kraemer ?
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February 14th, 2003, 07:45 PM
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Correctomundo! Hot potato your way. I did not know that in the German structure, a lot of weight was given to the value of the chief of staff. In the American army, the chief of staff mostly was an administrative position and not a militarily strong position such as that in the German Wehrmacht. Learn something new each time.
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February 14th, 2003, 09:44 PM
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I got a Waffen-SS question right...!
This caught me so much by surprise that you'll all have to wait for me to think of a question... 
( Later ) I thought of one...
Whose portrait hung for many years in the bar of the Swan Hotel, Lavenham, Suffolk ? 
[ 14. February 2003, 04:59 PM: Message edited by: Martin Bull ]
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February 14th, 2003, 10:05 PM
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Heratio Nelson!
Just kidding, Douglas Bader?
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February 14th, 2003, 10:22 PM
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I love the new addition to your signature Mannerheim.
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February 15th, 2003, 06:07 AM
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No - the clue is in the placename....
( & I don't think the answer's available on the 'net.... [img]tongue.gif[/img] )
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February 15th, 2003, 10:02 PM
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Freddie Castle.
Had to be the airfiled that gives it away.
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Superb, urqh !! [img]smile.gif[/img] I honestly didn't think anyone would get this one !
Brig-Gen Frederick Castle indeed, the 8th AFs highest-ranking Medal of Honor recipient.
You well deserve to ask the next one......
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February 15th, 2003, 11:06 PM
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Id like to think I was a walking ww2 fact book, but I cant really kid anyone.
Only knew because of someone on here pointing us to a victoria cross site a few weeks ago, and linked from there to a MOH site and his last mission featured on there, one of only 2 I actually read 2 weeks ago, stuck in my mind.
OK, who was hailed as the saviour of Ceylon by Churchill, whose mission resulted in his being taken prisoner by the Japanese?
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February 16th, 2003, 08:55 AM
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General Percival?
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It was yet another Canadian, Squadron Leader Len Birchall of 413 Squadron.
Flying a Catalina, he spotted the Japanese invasion fleet and managed to radio a warning to Ceylon before being shot down. He then suffered considerably as a prisoner-of-war for the 'duration'....
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Well that didnt last long.
Over to Martin again then.
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The 4,000lb HC bomb ( or 'Cookie' ) was one of Bomber Command's most devastating weapons. 68,000 of them were dropped during WWII.
What type of aircraft first used them operationally - and when ?
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Lancaster, September 7, 1943.
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Wrong !
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Quote:
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The 4,000lb HC bomb ( or 'Cookie' ) was one of Bomber Command's most devastating weapons. 68,000 of them were dropped during WWII.
What type of aircraft first used them operationally - and when ?
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A Vickers Wellington of No 149 Squadron on the 1st April 1941, during a raid on Emden.
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And that was not an easy one !
Congratulations, redcoat - it's all yours....
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*bump*
'Hello redcoat..Come in redcoat...over!?'
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Quote:
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How many Grand Slam (22,000Ib) bombs were dropped in WW2
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