Thread: Let's have another WW2 quiz

Originally Posted by Nosferax

22,000ft... St-Nazaire... He is known as the luckiest soldier of WW2... Died 61 years later of heart and kidney failure.

And the Mythbusters screwed it up.

So I guess my turn.

How did Australia's top fighter ace learn deflection shooting?

Name the ship that Lord Mountbatten commanded until 1941.

Originally Posted by Panzerkampfwagen

And the Mythbusters screwed it up.

So I guess my turn.

How did Australia's top fighter ace learn deflection shooting?

Hunting kangaroo?

Originally Posted by Nosferax

Hunting kangaroo?

Nope, not it.

Originally Posted by SFJEFF

Okay- this is in regards to the French Fleet- the forces of what nations sank the:

Strasbourg

Bretagne

Not to be too picky- but no one has successfully answered my question- so technically still my turn.

Originally Posted by SFJEFF

Not to be too picky- but no one has successfully answered my question- so technically still my turn.

What is the answer, btw?

Originally Posted by DA60

What is the answer, btw?

I guess it is the British and the U.S. (I looked it up).

Originally Posted by Panzerkampfwagen

And the Mythbusters screwed it up.

So I guess my turn.

How did Australia's top fighter ace learn deflection shooting?

Clive Caldwell fired at the shadow of his own aircraft. BTW, he was the top P-40 Ace of all the allied services in WWII.

Originally Posted by Jason Bourne

Clive Caldwell fired at the shadow of his own aircraft. BTW, he was the top P-40 Ace of all the allied services in WWII.

Yep. I think it was said in the other thread that the P-40 was Australia's most numerous fighter aircraft of WW2.

Originally Posted by Panzerkampfwagen

Yep. I think it was said in the other thread that the P-40 was Australia's most numerous fighter aircraft of WW2.

Here's an easy one and the answer is one of my heroes. Who was the USAAF WWII Ace who married a movie starlett?