WWII Forums Quiz Part VI

Cheated, got it from his book..

OK Don't know if this has been asked before maybe...

What is the connection between the TITANIC and the Dunkirk evacuation (a person)

 

Oh I know that one without looking it up - Charles Lightoller....

 

Yup, Martin you get it... When I asked it, it occured to me its probably been asked on this quiz before....

So Martins turn again..My great grandad was a survivor of the titanic... He was a stowaway really, in great Murphy tradition on thinking he was going to get caught he launched a lifeboat the day before the iceberg hit, and my great great grandad was killed at the Big Horn, camping, heared a noise... went over to complain..
His great great great....grand dad in 1066 was testing the new celtic bow on the ranges outside Hastings, and let his finger slip on the new Irish string the Brits were thinking of buying..2 miles that arrow travelled.....his mate warned him not to do that again as he could have someones eye out...ok sorry...all yours Martin..

 

a hard question:why did hitler hated the Jews so much.

 

When he was in primary school, his teacher pointed out how the Jews were causing all the problems.

 

can someone really talk hitler into kill six million Jews?
i think not

 

Just a minute, guys - please.

This quiz has been running for about four years now and the rules of the game haven't changed : the person who answers a question correctly gets to ask the next one.

And at the moment that's...me.

 

ooops!

 

'In that plane were all my private archives...it is a catastrophe !'

What famous episode in 1983 was sparked off by those words ?

 

Guys, guys, please read into the previous questions / replies. The rules roughly are: somebody who responded correctly to the previous question earns the right to put in a new query. This is a very concrete one, about a quotation, photo, fact, whatever, that calls for a very specific reply. Something like how many gold teeth did Ribbentropp have, or something even worse!

No place for general questions here.

 

I like the "gold teeth" question better than Martin's question.

 

The Hitler Diaries, Martin?

 

Right in one, Gordon - the words allegedly uttered by Hitler and mentioned in the memoir of his personal pilot Hans Baur led ultimately to the hilarious 'Hitler Diaries' hoax....

 

Apologies folks, I forgot about this!
Ok, an easy one to make up for it....Who was the only German prisoner to escape from an Allied camp and return to Germany?

 

Oberleutnant Franz von Werra from Canada across the St Lawrence to (then) neutral USA.

Worth checking out "The One That Got Away" with Hardy Kruger as Von Werra, alot filmed at the actual escape locations.

More Info on Von Werra

I notice this article mentions "He was only the third German prisoner of war to make a successful escape from Canada. The first man had managed to return home via Japan and Russia, but the second had been handed straight back to the Canadians" Never heard about the first one...?

 

Well done, Ian. Never heard of the first one either. Got the book on Von Werra (which I think the film was based on), but haven't read it for a while.
As an aside, Helmut Pohle mentioned in the article was shot down in the first air raid on the Firth of Forth in October 1939.

 

Okay here's my question.

Which location on the US mainland was the first to be shelled by the Axis in WW2?

 

The United States mainland was first shelled by the Axis on February 23, 1942 when the Japanese submarine I-17 attacked the Ellwood oil production facilities at Goleta, near Santa Barbara, California. Although only a catwalk and pumphouse were damaged, I-17 captain Nishino Kozo radioed Tokyo that he had left Santa Barbara in flames. No casualties were reported and the total cost of the damage was estimated at approximately $500.--Wikipedia

Right?

 

correct! Wikipedia makes it too easy!

 

Sweet. My turn.

B-29's flew in a within a certain altitude range because this General felt that they would take no casualties at this altitude during a March 9th bombing in 1945.

Name the General, the bomb site, and altitude range.