Statistics for WWII for Part-Time Dummies #1

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which two were US Navy admirals?	Chester W. Nimitz/William Halsey Jr.	100%
Pearl Harbor attack date?	December 7, 1941	100%
Allied supreme commander in the Pacific Theatre?	General Douglas MacArthur	100%
US air crews (probably hallucinating from drinking Coca Cola when in those days it was laced with cocaine) often reported a weird phenomenon on bombing raids. It was thought to be a German secret weapon. What name was it given?	Foo Fighters	50%
First major engagement between US forces and Axis forces in Africa?	Kasserine Pass	50%
The Messerschmidt 163 was called the...?	Komet	50%
Massive tank battle in Russia (5 July 1943 - 23 August 1943). A regular maelstrom, it was. Saw the debut of the German Panther tank. Greatest tank battle in the history of warfare.	Kursk	50%
What was the US army's service rifle?	M1 Garand	50%
The youngest four star general in the US army. Like Douglas MacArthur he had a huge entourage accompanying him wherever he went. 75% of them photographers or cameramen.	Mark W. Clark	50%
This battle on the Volga River (23 August,1942 - 2 February,1943) saw the destruction of the German 6th Army and was the first time a German field marshal had ever surrendered, up to that point (according to the Germans). Turning point of the war in the European theatre.	Stalingrad	50%
Mainstay tank of the Red Army?	T-34	50%
This Australian soldier was the only man to ever attain the rank of field marshal in the Australian army in its history. A competent soldier in the First World War when he was working under General Monash's close supervision. Showed his true abilities when the Big One came along and he was given the top job. When he wasn't toadying up to Douglas MacArthur he was calling him nasty names behind his back. His reputation after the war was sullied when his field marshal's baton and his identification papers were found in a Melbourne brothel.	Thomas Blamey	50%
Pearl Harbor attack mastermind?	Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto	0%
The most decorated US soldier of WWIl. Humble beginnings. Enlisted man. 'Baby Faced'. Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honour, he was buried in Arlington Cemetery. As a winner of the highest decoration awarded to US servicemen he was entitled to have his named gilded on his gravestone. He said "To Hell and back with that! I rest amongst my brave comrades. I want no special recognition."	Audie Murphy	0%
This American tank came in two flavours. The difference was the turrets. Both flavours were named for two opposing generals who clashed quite often during the American Civil War.	Lee and Grant	0%
18 of these US twin-engined fighters were assigned to shoot down Admiral Yamamoto's aircraft over Bougainville Island in April, 1943.	Lockheed P-38G Lightning	0%
General Norman Schwarzkopf of 'Operation Desert Storm' fame, when he was basking in his fifteen minutes of fame, often mentioned he used to sleep with a book under his pillow when on operational duty. Name author and book.	Major-General Friedrich von Mellenthin/'Panzer Battles'	0%
These US fighter/fighter bombers had a a maximum speed of 440 mph and a range of 1,650 miles with external fuel tanks.	North American P-51 Mustang	0%
'Operation Overlord' was the overall code name for the allied invasion of France. What was the code name for the 6th June, 1944 allied beach assault at Normandy?	Operation Neptune	0%
Mainstay tank of the German Army?	Panzer IV	0%
What did American crews nickname their Sherman tanks?	Ronson	0%
Which high-ranking Nazi flew to Scotland in 1940 in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 with the crazy notion he could negotiate peace between Germany and Great Britain?	Rudolf Hess	0%
When the Shintos began scattering high explosive thingies all over this glorified country town in the Northern Territory, Australia in 1942, it was a shameful episode in the history of Australia. What did the townspeople and military personnel stationed there do?	Scattered in all directions of the compass (except north) with such alacrity, it made Douglas MacArthur's flight from the Philippines, seem positively lackadaisical and comatose	0%
Biggest Japanese aircraft carrier built?	Shinano	0%
What did Italy and Japan have in common in regards to WWI and WWII?	They were on the winning side in WWI and the losing side in WWII	0%
What US vessel sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano?	USS Archerfish	0%
The eldest and favourite son of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was killed how?	Vaporised when his aircraft blew up on August 12, 1944	0%
German code name for what Americans call the 'Battle of the Bulge.'?	Wacht am Rhein	0%