Military History/Weapons Questions
Since I was a kid I've been a WWII buff & figured there may be others out there. (I was born in late 1946 so WWII & Korea were the stories I grew up with) First book I ever remember really enjoying was Walter Lord's "Day Of Infamy" (about the Pearl Harbor attack) & like to think of myself as a pretty good trivia buff. (My wife, if asked to name the beach code names for the 6/6/1944 Normandy invasion can still come up with 4 out of the 5!)
So, seeing as the heating season is almost done & political topics can get pretty rough, I figured I'd see if there was any interest in this topic.
I'll start & the questions can be anything related to military history/hardware/weapons...etc & the only rule is that you have to answer off the top of your head......No Googling the answer...That's no fun!
Since I mentioned the Normandy invasion, how about a few questions on that:
1. What was the overall code name for the invasion?
2. What were the top secret British cement blocks (to form a harbor) that were floated acroos the channel code named?
3. There were five beach code names: 2 American beaches, 2 British beaches & 1 Canadian Beach......What were their code names?
Feel free to ask any questions you want.
So, seeing as the heating season is almost done & political topics can get pretty rough, I figured I'd see if there was any interest in this topic.
I'll start & the questions can be anything related to military history/hardware/weapons...etc & the only rule is that you have to answer off the top of your head......No Googling the answer...That's no fun!
Since I mentioned the Normandy invasion, how about a few questions on that:
1. What was the overall code name for the invasion?
2. What were the top secret British cement blocks (to form a harbor) that were floated acroos the channel code named?
3. There were five beach code names: 2 American beaches, 2 British beaches & 1 Canadian Beach......What were their code names?
Feel free to ask any questions you want.
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1. Operation Overlord?
2. Mulberrys?
3. Sword, Gold, Juno, Omaha, Utah.
2. Mulberrys?
3. Sword, Gold, Juno, Omaha, Utah.
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Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu. They were all at the bottom of the Pacific in 3.5 years.
LOL...wow!! you are good!! (actually I think there were 2 smaller carriers involved also, but I may be wrong) The carriers you named were actually all sunk within 6 months of the Pearl Harbor attack at the battle of Midway!coaledsweat wrote:Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu. They were all at the bottom of the Pacific in 3.5 years.
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Who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and what was his warning to the Japanese high command?
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That's a myth, there's no documentation to support it. It was used in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora. Whoever wrote movie said he got it from the Admiral's journal or something along those lines but they can't find the passage anywhere.Devil5052 wrote: Admiral Yamamoto who feared they had just suceeded in awakening a sleeping giant.
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One was "Little Boy" , I believe the difference was the type of material used. Uranium and plutonium maybe?Devil5052 wrote:What were the code names of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki A-Bombs, & how were they different?
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Little Boy and Fat Man. The first was a Uranium bomb, the second was plutonium.
Name the pilot that dropped the second bomb, everyone knows Paul Tibbets (who just recently died) dropped the first one.
Name the pilot that dropped the second bomb, everyone knows Paul Tibbets (who just recently died) dropped the first one.