OT - WWII quiz

[Neilster]

I think the other pilot it was Barkhorn (Gerald?) and 301 sounds right.

Cheers, Neilster

[rjopel]

This is trickier and hopefully hard to Google. What strange method of guiding American air-launched weapons was suggested by a famous researcher towards the end of the Second World War?

Cheers, Neilster

Pigeons.  They were to have a TV guidance and the pigeons were taught to peck for food on the pictures on enemy warships.
 
 
And I didn't even Google it.
 
[;)]
 

[Kaletsch2007]

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

ORIGINAL: Kaletsch2007

I got a challenging one.
On a graveyard 30 km north of Lagos (Portugal), six German Soldiers were buried in 1945.
What happened ?

They died?

Good answer[;)]
But not good enough explained to deserve the point[:(]

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Kaletsch2007

ORIGINAL: micheljq

Correct - you´ve got 50% of the answer. So there is only one Name missing ...

What about Adolf Galland?

No, quite well known, but for other things then his victories.
Only around 130 victories, if I am right.
I know, there is another one with 301 victories, also from 52nd fighter regiment, but i have to check the book for the name.
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No offence, but this comment made me laugh [:D]

[Neilster]

ORIGINAL: rjopel

This is trickier and hopefully hard to Google. What strange method of guiding American air-launched weapons was suggested by a famous researcher towards the end of the Second World War?

Cheers, Neilster

Pigeons. They were to have a TV guidance and the pigeons were taught to peck for food on the pictures on enemy warships.


And I didn't even Google it.

[;)]

Correctamundo. How about that eh? The idea was proposed by the legendary psychologist B.F. Skinner and seems to have had merit. A lot of testing was done but it appears the brass just couldn't get their heads around it. It was developed to quite a sophisticated system, with multiple pigeons for redundancy and training to ignore flashes and bangs etc. Rather than TV guidance, which was in its very formative stages, I think they were experimenting with lenses and translucent screens.

If you are being targeted by a trio of hungry pigeons who are trained to get birdseed by pecking at the centre of a picture of whatever you're sitting on (and hence sending guidance signals to control surfaces)...say your prayers buddy [:D] That's a sophisticated neural network homing system coming at you.

This is the beginning of the pigeon-guidance section of an article that also describes Project X-Ray, the attempt to turn bats into incendiary bombers (yep...I'm not joking. Check it out [:)]).

http://www.historynet.com/top-secret-ww ... gram.htm/4

Cheers, Neilster

[NeBert]

ORIGINAL: Neilster



I think the other pilot it was Barkhorn (Gerald?) and 301 sounds right.

Cheers, Neilster

Yes, Gerhard Barkhorn is right (301 victories)!
Most of the war he flew for the JG52 (52nd fighter reg.), late in the war he lead JG6 and finally joined the JV44 (Me262) together with other aces like Galland, Steinhoff, Lützow etc.

Adolf Galland scored 104 Victories, all of them over the western front which makes him to the most successful german pilot over the western front (note that Galland was "grounded" from late 1942 early 1945 when he joined the JV44).

[NeBert]

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: Kaletsch2007

ORIGINAL: micheljq

Correct - you´ve got 50% of the answer. So there is only one Name missing ...

What about Adolf Galland?

No, quite well known, but for other things then his victories.
Only around 130 victories, if I am right.
I know, there is another one with 301 victories, also from 52nd fighter regiment, but i have to check the book for the name.

No offence, but this comment made me laugh [:D]
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Yes, for allied eyes "only" more than 100 victories is understatement at its best, but with his 104 victories he´s "only" no. 79 in the ranking of german WW2-pilots....

[cockney]

hears an interesting question for you.
Who was Robert Lovack, and what happened?

[Kaletsch2007]

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: Kaletsch2007

ORIGINAL: micheljq

Correct - you´ve got 50% of the answer. So there is only one Name missing ...

What about Adolf Galland?

No, quite well known, but for other things then his victories.
Only around 130 victories, if I am right.
I know, there is another one with 301 victories, also from 52nd fighter regiment, but i have to check the book for the name.

No offence, but this comment made me laugh [:D]
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Of course. If you take the answer out of context, I would totaly agree. In fact the ONLY was meant in comparison with the 301.
And I am not offended in any way[8D]

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: NeBert

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: Kaletsch2007




What about Adolf Galland?

No, quite well known, but for other things then his victories.
Only around 130 victories, if I am right.
I know, there is another one with 301 victories, also from 52nd fighter regiment, but i have to check the book for the name.

No offence, but this comment made me laugh [:D]

Yes, for allied eyes "only" more than 100 victories is understatement at its best, but with his 104 victories he´s "only" no. 79 in the ranking of german WW2-pilots....
[/quote]

Yes, I am aware of Luftwaffe numbers, however no matter how you turn it around, 104 "kills" still is more than "only" to me hehe

[Norman42]

Q: Who was sent searching Cairo to locate a mansion for Rommel to take as his HQ in his so-to-be-accomplished capture of the city?

Anyone dug up this answer? It pretty obscure, but the answer is quite fascinating.

I'll reveal it tomorrow if nobody comes up with it.

[cockney]

for my question I'll give the answer to the question.
 
Robert Lovack, was the first American soildier to be killed in WW2
 
and for a follow up question, in what year was he killed?

[Orm]

My guess would be that he was killed in China before USA entered the war. Hmm.... I go with 1939.

[michaelbaldur]

1940 england ...doing the blitz

[cockney]

yes 1940 but before the blitz

Robert Lovack the first American serviceman killed in ww2 was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940),

[cockney]

I will buy a beer for the person that can answer this question.
I was amazed when I found it.

Q what was Hitler's personal phone number to his Berlin bunker?

[cockney]

At the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced "sink us")
the shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th Infantry division was the Swastika
and Hitler's private train was named "Amerika". All three were soon changed for PR purposes.

[Neilster]

ORIGINAL: cockney

At the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced "sink us")
the shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th Infantry division was the Swastika
and Hitler's private train was named "Amerika". All three were soon changed for PR purposes.

...and the pre-war British car company was known as SS Jaguar

Cheers, Neilster

[Norman42]

ORIGINAL: Norman42

Q: Who was sent searching Cairo to locate a mansion for Rommel to take as his HQ in his so-to-be-accomplished capture of the city?

Anyone dug up this answer? It pretty obscure, but the answer is quite fascinating.

I'll reveal it tomorrow if nobody comes up with it.

A: Future President of Egypt, Anwar el-Sadat, an Egyptian military officer. Along with another future president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sadat was part of the anti-British Free Officers Movement, and was given the task by German operatives to find a mansion in Cairo for Erwin Rommel to live in.

He succeeded, finding a manor house on Rue des Pyramides in Cairo that Rommel agreed to accept.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Norman42

ORIGINAL: Norman42

Q: Who was sent searching Cairo to locate a mansion for Rommel to take as his HQ in his so-to-be-accomplished capture of the city?

Anyone dug up this answer? It pretty obscure, but the answer is quite fascinating.

I'll reveal it tomorrow if nobody comes up with it.

A: Future President of Egypt, Anwar el-Sadat, an Egyptian military officer. Along with another future president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sadat was part of the anti-British Free Officers Movement, and was given the task by German operatives to find a mansion in Cairo for Erwin Rommel to live in.

He succeeded, finding a manor house on Rue des Pyramides in Cairo that Rommel agreed to accept.

Warspite1

Re-arrange these words to find a well-known phrase Horse, Cart, The, Before [:D]