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Discussion in 'Warfare / Military' started by DA60, Feb 28, 2012.

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  1. SFJEFF

    SFJEFF New Member

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    Me too! Excellent.
     
    SFJEFF, Mar 5, 2012
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  2. Albert Di Salvo

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    South Bend never recovered from the closure of the Studebaker plant.
     
    Albert Di Salvo, Mar 5, 2012
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    The last I saw a Studebaker was an old beaten and quite rusty model that my hippy brother bought in the late 70's... The only car that I know that still had a crank in the front to start it in case the ignition system failed...
     
    Nosferax, Mar 5, 2012
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  4. DA60

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    What world WW2 fighter aircraft was - in essence - Israel's first fighter aircraft?
     
    DA60, Mar 6, 2012
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  5. Panzerkampfwagen

    Panzerkampfwagen New Member

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    Bf-109 I'd say. They used a lot of German equipment.
     
    Panzerkampfwagen, Mar 6, 2012
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  6. DA60

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    Well done.

    It was a Czech-built version of the 109G with a Jumo 211 engine...and apparently they were real pigs to take off and land; even more so then the stock-motored 109's (which were bad at this to start with).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avia_S-199


    Your turn.
     
    DA60, Mar 6, 2012
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  7. Panzerkampfwagen

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    Thinking, thinking, thinking.

    In Australia what was a choco?
     
    Panzerkampfwagen, Mar 6, 2012
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  8. Panzerkampfwagen

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    I guess I stumped everyone or it fell too far off the first page?

    I'll give a little bit more time and if no one even attempts to answer I'll give the answer and ask another question.
     
    Panzerkampfwagen, Mar 6, 2012
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  9. Jason Bourne

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    A soldier who was drafted rather than enlisted?
     
    Jason Bourne, Mar 6, 2012
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  10. DA60

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    'Choco' can mean a few things in Australia (apparently).

    Most of them none too good.
     
    DA60, Mar 6, 2012
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  11. Panzerkampfwagen

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    Jason has it.

    It's short for chocolate. Soldiers of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force said that soldiers of the militia would melt like chocolate in the heat of battle.
     
    Panzerkampfwagen, Mar 6, 2012
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    Can I ask a question please? Thanks.

    At what battle did the Diggers massacre the 15th Infantry Division of the Imperial Japanese Army?
     
    Albert Di Salvo, Mar 6, 2012
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    Actually it was the 5th Division.
     
    Albert Di Salvo, Mar 7, 2012
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    Who was considered the "Master Interrogator" of the Luftwaffe during WWII.
     
    Jason Bourne, Mar 7, 2012
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    The Japanese division..... massacre.............. the bridge ambush in Malaya when the Japanese were riding bicycles over a bridge and the Australians blew the bridge up after a few hundred of the approx 1300 Japanese had ridden over the bridge and poured machine gun and rifle fire into the masses of Japanese troops and escaped with 0 deaths themselves but killed about 700 Japanese?
     
    Panzerkampfwagen, Mar 7, 2012
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  16. Albert Di Salvo

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    That's the one. The Battle of Gemas in early 1942 before the fall of Singapore. The Japanese thought they were dealing with retreating British. They hadn't encountered Australians before.
     
    Albert Di Salvo, Mar 7, 2012
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    Which act of kindness/solidarity on the allied side contributed for a fair amount of allied soldier getting killed during the D-Day landing?
     
    Nosferax, Mar 8, 2012
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  18. Albert Di Salvo

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    I don't know, but it must have been an act of kindness/solidarity involving Canadian and British troops. Americans operated alone at Utah and Omaha beaches. Did the act to which you refer involve Canadian troops?
     
    Albert Di Salvo, Mar 8, 2012
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    Nope...

    And Canadian were alone on Juno... Everyone is alone during a landing...

     
    Nosferax, Mar 8, 2012
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    Worried about killing French civilians and so didn't level the place as much as they could have?
     
    Panzerkampfwagen, Mar 8, 2012
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    Sounds right.
     
    Jarlaxle, Mar 8, 2012
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    Nope...

    The Navy in an act of solidarity and kindness for the poor soul that would storm the beach on that cold and miserable day, decided to boost their moral by serving them an earthy breakfast of eggs, steak, bacon, saussage, beans and pancake... Creating the biggest epidemia of sea sickness the world has ever known... Many soldier died because they were so weak from the vomiting their guts out, that they weren't able to drop their equipment and swim when they felled in the water, or unable to run when they got on the beach.
     
    Nosferax, Mar 9, 2012
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  23. Albert Di Salvo

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    Any one with a question should ask it please.
     
    Albert Di Salvo, Mar 9, 2012
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    Without looking it up - name the six Japanese aircraft carriers that bombed Pearl Harbor?
     
    DA60, Mar 9, 2012
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    Hiryu, Soryu, Akagi, Kaga, Shin...ku, can't remember.
     
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