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  1. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    What US division was trained as an experimental jungle division, converted back to a standard division and then, despite it's extensive jungle training, sent to Europe as an emergency reinforcement?
     
    Slipdigit, Nov 15, 2007
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    Hint....p-lease

    The 23rd ? I don't know of another one trained in both Jungle & Mountain.
     
    skunk works, Nov 16, 2007
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    The official title was a "Light" Division.
     
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    It was in the 70s range of divisional numbers. It's patch had a stylized number of the division, in red white and blue.
     
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    It's GOTTA be the 71st - but everything I can find shows it to have originally been a MOUNTAIN division .....

    ... but it's the only LIGHT division that I can find in the 70's range.


    .. so, I'm gonna go with the 71st.






    ...or not.

    -whatever

    -Lou
     
    scarface, Nov 17, 2007
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    Okay... it says they were '...organized as a Mountain Division,...and trained in mountain AND jungle warfare'...hmmh!

    ....seems like they'd look pretty stupid traipsing around the mountains of New Guinea with their cross-country skiis.... but hey, it IS the Army, after all!


    a Jungle Mountain division..... that's getting pretty specialized. Let's send 'em to Europe! Yep.....THAT's the Army!

    -whatever

    -Lou
     
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    Slipdigit, Nov 17, 2007
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    scarface had it first (post 525), all yers.
     
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    You are right, it is Lou. I didn't back up to the 21st page to look.

    Jump all over it Lou.
     
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    My heavens....how gracious. Thank you.


    OK - here's an easy one...

    What award-winning star of stage, screen and TV was named after a World War II combat airplane?

    (... and, no, it's NOT Burt Lancaster!....sheesh!...)


    -whatever

    -Lou
     
    scarface, Nov 17, 2007
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    uh, that question's so easy I'm going to let my chauffeur in back of the room answer it.
     
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    ZA'S HERE?????:eek::eek::eek:
     
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    Flying Fortress, dau of Earl and Gladys Fortress? She starred on stage and in the movie adaptation of Pirates of Pismo Beach. Also was a regular celebrity special guest lender on the TV show, You Bet Your Kneecaps, with host Guido Capone.
     
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    "Claude" Raines ?
    "Sally" Kellerman ?
    "Kate" Smith ?
    "Mary" Magdolin ?
    "Lily" Tomlin ?
    "Sonia" Henning ?
    "Val" Kilmer ?
    "Zero" Mostell ?
    "Jake" Plummer ?
    "Dinah" Shore ?
    "Helen" of Troy ?
    "Oscar" Wilde ?
    "Betty" Boop ?
    "Nick" LeShay ?
    "Judy" Garland ?
    "Irving" Berlin ?
    "Rex" Reed ?
    "George" Clooney ?
    "Tony" Curtiss ?
    "Frank" Sinatra ?
    "Jack" Lemmon ?
    "Francis" MacDermond ?
    "Grace" Kelly ?
     
    skunk works, Nov 18, 2007
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    I obviously didn't know it and Lou is going to be out of pocket, so he sent me the answer so we could keep the game going.

    Hints: It's a female and is not the official name of an aircraft-it's crew's name, nose art.

    She person is well known.
     
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    Sirens eh?
    Jean Harlow ?
    Rita Hayworth ?
    Betty Grable ?
    Jane Russell ?
    Favorite "Nose Art" names eh?
    (many of each)
    "City of ........"
    "Double Trouble"
    "Pistol Packin Mamma"
    "Sad Sack"
    "Vargas Esquire Centerfold Dec-43" (many names)
    "Dragon Lady"
     
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    She shares a common surname with the antagonist in 1979's Apocalypse Now.
     
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    Well, that film was based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and the two main characters were Marlow and Kurtz, if that's any help. Did Brando play Kurtz, or am I misremembering?

    JT
     
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    you have the right idea. I was referring to the movie, probably better known of the two.
     
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