The Wwii Quiz Part 1

Welcome to the WWII Quiz

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I will set the first question to kick it off and give you some idea of the level of question I have in mind.

 

The first question.

How many members of US forces officially landed with 1st Airborne Division during operation Market Garden in the Arnhem area.

This excludes any US citizens who happened to be serving as a member of British, Canadian, etc. forces, any shot down US aircrew who linked up with British forces and the member of the 82nd Airborne who somehow seems to have ended up at Arnhem by mistake (and I would love to know his story). It also excludes US personnel who landed with Browning's corps headquarters near Nijmegen.

 

US Air Support Signals Team - 306th Fighter Control Squadron

10 men Flew in 4 Wacos from Manston.

 

Jedburgh Team Claude included two Americans; Lieutenant Harvey Todd and T/Sgt Carl Scott. They landed with 1st AB and both fought at Oosterbeek. I don't know what happened to Scott but there is an interesting page about Todd here:

http://www.arnhemarchive.org/harvey_todd.htm

So my answer is two?!

 

Originally posted by morse1001@Oct 25 2004, 09:29 AM
US Air Support Signals Team - 306th Fighter Control Squadron

10 men Flew in 4 Wacos from Manston.
[post=28923]Quoted post[/post]

Did they landed in the 1st AB sector at Arnhem? And what was their role; not come across them before?

 

Originally posted by Paul Reed+Oct 25 2004, 10:32 AM-->(Paul Reed @ Oct 25 2004, 10:32 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-morse1001@Oct 25 2004, 09:29 AM
US Air Support Signals Team - 306th Fighter Control Squadron

10 men Flew in 4 Wacos from Manston.
[post=28923]Quoted post[/post]

Did they landed in the 1st AB sector at Arnhem? And what was their role; not come across them before?
[post=28926]Quoted post[/post]
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their job was to co-ordinate and control American fighter units operating in area. they are listed as being part of the order of battle of 1AB

 

Thanks for that - do you have any references as to what happened to them? I wonder if they had the same radio problems as the British; I am presuming they used US kit which may have been different to British? I wonder if it performed better or worse?!

 

Nobody has the right answer yet.

By the way T/Sgt Scott managed to evade capture and return to allied lines, but was killed in action later in 1944.

 

12 US personnel, 10 from US Air Support Signals and 2 as part of Jedburgh so twelve is the total then as per 'Arnhem 1944' by Martin Middlebrook

 

Originally posted by salientpoints@Oct 25 2004, 07:56 PM
12 US personnel, 10 from US Air Support Signals and 2 as part of Jedburgh so twelve is the total then as per 'Arnhem 1944' by Martin Middlebrook
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Sorry, wrong, but you are warm. Go back and read chapter 4 again.

 

The correct answer is 13 (Arnhem 1944, Martin Middlebrook, Penguin Books edition 1995, p69)

As mentioned, 10 from the US signals, 2 in the Jedburgh team, plus one US officer with either 6080 or 6341 Light Warning Unit, RAF.

I won't post a second question this time, so the quiz is open to the first person to post one.

 

Name the Operation, when and where, in which 2nd Commando Brigade played the major role? Clue: It completly fooled the Germans and hastened the end of a war.

 

Operation Jupiter (part of Fortitude North), the false invasion of Norway in 1944 ? I know Commandos were used in 'fake' landing exercises to look like they were gathering information for landings etc.

Any good?

Ryan

 

Operation Jupiter (part of Fortitude North), the false invasion of Norway in 1944 ? I know Commandos were used in 'fake' landing exercises to look like they were gathering information for landings etc.

Any good?


Hi Ryan,

The answer is found further south.

Regards, Gerry

 

Hmm I don't want to go for the obvious routes so maybe something to do with Operation Bodyguard and the invasion of Greece?

To be specific Operation Accolade - The proposed (false) British Tank Attack on the Dodecanese Islands? or Hercules: The plan for the assault on Rhodes? I cannot find unit details though

Ryan

 

Hmm I don't want to go for the obvious routes so maybe something to do with Operation Bodyguard and the invasion of Greece?


Getting closer Ryan. Another clue, it was during this Operation that the only Victoria Cross awarded, sadly posthumously, to a Royal Marine Commando.

 

Don't now the name of the operation but was it in the area of Lake Comaccichio in Italy?

The VC I believe was T/Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter killed on the 2 of April 1945 to win his VC he attacked a house which contained 3 spandau's and took prisoner 6 of the gunners.

 

Well, I don't think it was St.Nazaire. That was No. 5 Commando, I think. Vaagso? Lofotens? They brought back Enigma machines and made the Germans over-defend Norway after those feats.

 

Originally posted by Thomas McCall
Don't now the name of the operation but was it in the area of Lake Comaccichio in Italy?

The VC I believe was T/Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter killed on the 2 of April 1945 to win his VC he attacked a house which contained 3 spandau's and took prisoner 6 of the gunners.



Lake Comacchio is correct. Although Corporal Hunter was killed on the 3rd, Thomas you win the silver medal. The gold goes to whomever can name the Operation - clue, it's a hot one!

 

Could the name of the operation to capture Lake Comacchio be Operation Fry?