Ww2 Quiz Part 2

Originally posted by spidge@Sep 20 2005, 12:13 PM
To occupy the Vichy French Base in Madagascar.
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Spidge got it....right first time!

First Allied amphibious invasion of the war.

 

Originally posted by Kiwiwriter+Sep 21 2005, 02:15 AM-->(Kiwiwriter @ Sep 21 2005, 02:15 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-spidge@Sep 20 2005, 12:13 PM
To occupy the Vichy French Base in Madagascar.
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Spidge got it....right first time!

First Allied amphibious invasion of the war.
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Here is an easy one for the "first" buff.

What date and where did the first British pilot shoot down the first German plan of the war?

 

Nov? 1939, SW of Rheims France. I don't remember the day.

 

Earlier than that!

 

Oct 30, 1939 in France?

 

Earlier than that!

And it wasn't in France!

 

The first RAF shoot-down was a Bf109 on 20 Sept near Aachen. But that was by a Fairey Battle gunner.

 

Yes that may be right however the question was British Pilot.

I will give a clue tonight if no other answers today.

 

You've got me stumped, spidge.

 

Clue:

The Planes involved were Blackburn Skua's launched from Ark Royal against Dornier flying boats.

 

I have heard of this but I have forgotten the details, if I remember correctly it was in the North Sea in the first 2 weeks of the war. (goes and finds the information)

 

Dornier Do 18, 250 miles North West of Heligoland, 26th September 1939.

Sorry Gnomey.

Tim

 

Hi Blackblue,

My source says the 29th however a few days is always a worry in these answers.

Ask away a question.

 

Cheers spidge,
Who was the most senior RAAF officer posted missing on flying operations during WW2?

Clue: His body was located and recovered in New Guinea in 1964.

Rgds

Tim

 

Originally posted by Blackblue@Sep 24 2005, 09:43 AM
Cheers spidge,
Who was the most senior RAAF officer posted missing on flying operations during WW2?

Clue: His body was located and recovered in New Guinea in 1964.

Rgds

Tim
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Haven't a clue on this one!

Was he Group Captain or higher?

 

Advance notice of intention to close this thread and start up part 3.

For database management reasons, it is not desirable to have topics with in excess of 250 posts. Therefore, at a convenient point in the next few dozen posts, I will close this topic and set up the quiz part 3.

I am posting this information now because last time it caused a little consternation.

Angie
Quiz Supervisor

 

Mmmm....looks like I've done it again. Will try something easier.

Group Captain Fred 'Wig' Wight, 10 Operations Group. Wing Commander Walter Hammond also perished. Killed in an air crash, in bad weather, at Mt Kenevi (Papua New Guinea) whilst flying Avro Anson LT-294 from Jackson's Field (Port Moresby) to Nadzab on 30 January 1944. May they Rest in Peace.

Wight was in the process of flying the Anson from Bundaberg (Queensland) to Nadzab to take up his new appointment at 10 Operations Group. On board he carried a bottle of Johnnie Walker Scotch (wrapped in a sleeping bag) as a gift for Air Commodore Fred Scherger who was to be his new CO. The crash was so violent that it compacted the wreckage, even cracking one of the occupants Smith & Wesson service revolvers. Twenty years later the CO of the team which recovered the mens remains, Squadron Leader Keith Rundle, was able to present the Johnnie Walker (which had somehow survived the crash) to then Air Vice Marshal Fred Scherger on behalf of his missing mate Fred Wight.

Rgds

Tim

 

Which much decorated, high ranking RAAF officer received a civilian bravery award for rescuing colleagues after an air crash in 1943? What was the aircraft and where did the incident occur?

Rgds

Tim

 

Clue: He was a WW1 Ace.

Rgds

Tim

 

Originally posted by Blackblue@Sep 27 2005, 03:28 PM
Clue: He was a WW1 Ace.

Rgds

Tim
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You are a very shifty man - WW1 Ace!!!!!

Air Commodore Arthur Henry Cobby, CBE DSO DFC GM, Air Officer Commanding North Eastern Area.

RAAF PBY-5 Catalina, A24-52 (original Serial No. USN 08335),

Crashed into Cleveland Bay at Townsville, Queensland

Thirteen of the nineteen RAAF passengers and crew were killed and were subsequently buried at the Townsville War Cemetery.