WWII Forums Quiz Part VI

Curtis LeMay. Got 1/3 of a "kill".

 

Oh, yeah!

Bomb Japan between 5 and 10 thou and get off easy.

 

It was Curtis LeMay of XXI Bomber Command, the target was Tokyo, and the attack altitude was 7,000ft. It worked - it's estimated that up to 85,000 people died.

 

Fire bombing in Japan in WWII killed more Japanese than both the atomic bombs combined. And why is it that nobody remembers this?

 

They do, Its just that on the www..forums and politics sites etc, people tend to convienently forget that fact in order to raize hell about mans inhumane weapon and the Yanks inhumamity where an enemy is concerned....to serve the needs of their own political viewpoint...better by far to be killed by fire raids in the hundreds of thousands than to be killed by one bomb developed by the USA in the main. And truthfully although Im anti war and especially politically anti Iraq invasion and tissue of corresponding lies..to see the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasake used as a political tool and conveinetly forget the firebombing deaths and the continued massacres that would have gone on without any Japanese reaction is political correctness gone mad..As others have stated on here...a great view on the matter is given in the book, Safely Quarteed out hear, by the guy who wrote Flashman novels and served in Burma...He has a great answer at the end of the book to all the doubters of the bombing..Sorry for rant on quiz forum..doesnt belong here I know..apologies...but yourlast post Luck Jack raises a good point.

 

Convienently forget...I like that. I think it may be either...never did know, don't want to know, refusal to learn, or everybodys favorite...Denial.
I knew.
Ahhhh ... Philosophy, it needs to have a spark of humor to make a lasting impression.
from Samuel Langhorn Clemens
My kind of loyalty is loyalty to ones country, not to its institutions or its office holders.
The country is the real thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to;
Institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

There can be a difference of opinion, without being one side or the other.
The world is shades of "Grey", not Black or White. Especially in Politics!
back to subject...
Who wins...TA 152 or Martin Bull? Your call LuckyJack.
What's the next question?

 

I suppose I shall hijack this with a new question, as it has been a few months...

...wow, I'm a bit rusty.....sooooooo


Name the first General in the History of the United States army to surrender his command to the enemy. (happened in world war two...duh)

 

Gen. Wainwright...Surrendered 70,000 American and Philippine personnel to Gen. Yamashita in Manila 1942. I think

Okay my turn.....On April 23rd and 24th, 1944 during the Anzio or "Shingle" Operation, what significant action took place ensuing two men to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor?

I know this one will be a tricky one because there was things happening all over the beachhead frontlines on the 23rd and 24th of April 1944 but, I'm looking for one in particular...

Regards,
MARNE

 

lol thats not QUITE the correct answer

there was another surrender...just under a month before the surrender of Corregidor

same general location though

 

Are you talking about MacArthurs declaration of Manila as an "open" city?

MARNE

 

nope

American.

Wainwright went to Corregidor...but there was still a commanding General on Bataan..

 

Okay, it was one of Wainwright's subordnates after he took over for MacArthur.....

Major Gen. Edward P. King..is that right?

Regards,
MARNE

 

ta da!

correct

 

SWEET!!

Whats funny is that when I started to say Gen. Percival I thought Allied not American which is why I answered with Gen. Percival but, the other thing is that when I answered Gen. Wainwright and you said that it was same general area....I had a feeling it was one of his subordinates but, didn't go with what I was thinking..

Okay back to my turn.....On April 23rd and 24th, 1944 during the Anzio or "Shingle" Operation, what significant action took place ensuing two men to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor?
I know this one will be a tricky one because there was things happening all over the beachhead frontlines on the 23rd and 24th of April 1944 but, I'm looking for one in particular...

Regards,
MARNE

 

Was it awarded to 2nd Lt Ernest Childers, an American Indian from 45 US Inf Div??

 

Nope. Your in the "right" vicinity of the Anzio Beachhead though....

Remember we're looking for the operation that was taking place not necessarily the Congressional Medal of Honor recipients...

Regards,
MARNE

 

I'll try
The operations at Cisterna? The push towards Rome?
Specifically Artena, preceeding Valmontone?
The Blue and White Devils
Pvt. Elden J. Johnson
Pvt. Herbert Christian
Both wounded (rather severely), yet charged the enemy anyway to cover the escape of 11 comrads?
Both medals awarded "Posthumously".

 

Sorry, that was on the 15th of June.
My Uncle spoke of the two I mentioned before. Virtually everyone there heard of those two guys!

Operations around the breakout of the defensive position at the "Mussolini Canal".
On the 23rd the 3rd (Rock of the Marne) division took 995 casualties in one day and gave 4 Congressional Medals of Honor.

Pvt Henry Shaurer
Pvt Johnny Dutko
Pvt Patrick Kessler
Pvt James mills

John C. Squires also received one for a different action near Padigleone.

 

Si or no? Hello MARNE...

 

Nope. It was a specfic "Operation"....on the evening of the 24th April 1944, Pfc. John C. Squires Able Co., 30th Infantry was awarded the CMH.....

Regards,
MARNE