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

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  1. DA60

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    Heydrich?
     
    DA60, Apr 13, 2012
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  2. DA60

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    I just looked it up (my answer was a guess) - and it is Heydrich.

    My question is to do with him...describe the significance of Lidice?
     
    DA60, Apr 13, 2012
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    Lidice was the place where the Germans massacred the people after Heydrich got killed.
     
    Man on Fire, Apr 13, 2012
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    Yes...actually they killed all the men over 16(?) and then deported all the rest to concentration camps except a few children who looked 'Arian' and were sent to Germany for adoption.

    The town itself was completely destroyed and flattened - leaving no trace that it ever existed.

    Even those bodies buried in the cemetery were dug up and destroyed.

    F'ing sick Nazi f*cks.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice


    Your turn.
     
    DA60, Apr 13, 2012
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  5. Man on Fire

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    Where was the spy ring based that informed Stalin that the Germans would attack around June 12?
     
    Man on Fire, Apr 13, 2012
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    No idea?

    Paris?
     
    DA60, Apr 14, 2012
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    No..... Looking for a country,not France.
     
    Man on Fire, Apr 14, 2012
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    Geneva, Switzerland.
     
    Jason Bourne, Apr 14, 2012
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    Correct. Well done.
     
    Man on Fire, Apr 14, 2012
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    Thank you. I believe that it was a branch of the "Red Orchestra" spy ring.

    I'm at work so please feel free to use my turn.
     
    Jason Bourne, Apr 14, 2012
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    Harry Turtledove has an alternate-history book witrh that title (The Man With The Iron Heart)...in it, Heydrich survives the assassination attempt (as he nearly did) and...well, read the book. :)
     
    Jarlaxle, Apr 14, 2012
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    No one's jumping in, so I'll give ya a set. (They're not all easily wikiable.)

    1. "The Bombe" was used by who, and for what purpose?

    2. Captured crews from a Wasp, Badger, or Crocodile were sometimes summarily executed. Why?

    3. The village of Sainte-Mère-Église currently keeps an unusual decoration on its church steeple to commemorate the Normandy invasion. What is it?

    4. In the last 6 months of the war, B-29's sank more Japanese shipping than any other platform, including submarines. How did they do it?

    5. A divisional uniform insignia of a snake smoking a pipe was worn by troops from what nation? (To narrow it down, this division fought in Italy for the allies.)
     
    mamooth, Apr 14, 2012
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    Would it be something like a model of an American paratrooper?

    Bombing Japanese harbours?
     
    Man on Fire, Apr 14, 2012
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    1. The British used to to decipher "Enigma" messages.

    2. Weren't they mini-subs used to deliver saboteurs?

    4. They mined Japanese harbors & choke points.

    5. Weren't they Canadian?
     
    Jarlaxle, Apr 14, 2012
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    Yes, a paradummy hanging by his chute from a projection on the steeple, in tribute to John Steele.

    Yes. And they sent some Bombes to the USA, where we used them to bust the Japanese codes.

    Wasp, Badger and Crocodile were all flamethrower-armed British or Canadian armored vehicles. Soldiers really, really hate anyone on the other side who uses a flamethrower. Shooting people and blowing them up is seen as fair, but torching them is not.

    Yes. Operation Starvation.

    The "Cobras Fumantes" or "Smoking Snakes" were the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, Brazil being one of the few countries that joined the allies before it was obvious the Allies would win. Some U-boat attacks had really ticked them off. They sent a division to fight, though it had to use American equipment, because Brazil had little industry at the time.
     
    mamooth, Apr 15, 2012
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    OK, guess I'm up...

    BEFORE the Willys GP was introduced, what vehicle was usually referred to as a "jeep"?
     
    Jarlaxle, Apr 19, 2012
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    No idea.
     
    DA60, Apr 20, 2012
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    Bantam Recon Car or BRC.
     
    Jason Bourne, Apr 20, 2012
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    Not...exactly. (I recall that was Bantam's vehicle for the same specs that resulted in the Willys Jeep.)
     
    Jarlaxle, Apr 21, 2012
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    What is the answer?
     
    DA60, Apr 21, 2012
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    The Dodge WC (W=1941, C=1000lb capacity vehicle) series command cars (used by, among others, Patton) were often referred to as jeeps (often, "Dodge jeeps"). Until the Willys Jeep arrived, any new or untried vehicle was a "jeep". Before the Willys Jeep arrived, the newest vehicle, thus the "jeep", was the Dodge WC.
     
    Jarlaxle, Apr 21, 2012
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    Interesting.

    Your turn again.
     
    DA60, Apr 21, 2012
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    What did the SS Mormacmail become the prototype for?
     
    Jarlaxle, Apr 22, 2012
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    You got me again...I have no idea.

    LST?


    Edit: I just looked it up...definitely not an LST.
     
    DA60, Apr 22, 2012
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    It was converted to the first escort carrier.
     
    Jason Bourne, Apr 23, 2012
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