Quick quiz.

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by Owen, Mar 21, 2014.

  1. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Most amphibous invasions had a D-Day.
    Which one didnt ?
    They used a different letter.
    (if there's more than one then I stuffed this up)

    Whoever gets it right can ask the next one.
     
  2. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Op Husky? X-day or something like that?
     
  3. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Not was I was thinking, some said it was an April Fool's joke.
     
  4. sol

    sol Very Senior Member

    Okinawa, L-Day
     
  5. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Yup.
    L in phonetic alphabet is Love.
    Love-Day .
     
  6. Mike L

    Mike L Very Senior Member

    or in Nato phonetic Lima-Day
     
  7. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    I was on about WW2 :p
     
  8. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

  9. snailer

    snailer Country Member

    Leonard Cheshire
     
  10. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Not Leonard Cheshire.
     
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  11. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Sir Hughie Edwards?
     
  12. snailer

    snailer Country Member

  13. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Well done Steve.

    Throw another in the ring!

    Cheers

    Geoff
     
  14. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    It was your previous offering that led me to Hughie Edwards. So you can claim half there snailer. :lol:
     
  15. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    The Japanese had an unusual welcome waiting for any U.S. Naval vessels entering the home waters around Tokyo in 1945. Can you tell me what this was and its Japanese name.
     
  16. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Well they had a few however the most unusual would have been the Shinyo? human Torpedoes? Mines strapped to their backs.
     
  17. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Correct, exactly what I was looking for, although I would have also accepted, Kairyu, or manned suicide midget submarines.
     
  18. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    What was the name of the prison that was used to store some of Britain's "national treasures" during WW2?
     
  19. DianeE

    DianeE Member

    H.M. Prison Shepton Mallet?
     
  20. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Correct Diane.

    Ask away!
     

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