World War 2 Trivia

[Lucky13]

 

[pattle]

Colonel Bogey was also the tune whistled on the film Bridge on the River Kwai with Alec Guiness. The tune has since been used to mock the Japanese in much the same way as English football fans use The Dam Busters March to mock the Germans. Both classic tunes.

 

[nuuumannn]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83bmsluWHZc

Classic!

 

[GrauGeist]

GG, why not try another question?

Ok...and I promise not to "lose" the thread this time (especially for two years)

Off the southern coast of the United States, on an evening in 1943, a surfaced U-Boat was intercepted before it could attack two merchant ships. It was not sunk but damaged to the point where it had to retreat still surfaced, where it was eventaually caught days later and sunk by a RAF bomber.

The U-Boat was not attacked by a surface vessel or submarine, it was not attacked by an airplane or a helicopter...what attacked it?

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A Naval Blimp. It happened on July 18, 1943 if I'm not mistaken. I found this a few months ago going through some WWII files on the net.

 

[GrauGeist]

Yerp, way to go, Aaron!!

The U.S. Navy K-74 versus the DKM U-134, it's a hell of a story and certainly an unusual encounter.

I posted it here several years ago: ww2aircraft.net - Airship versus Submarine

Your turn!!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Ok, who was the youngest individual to be accepted into the Eagle Squadron and how old was he when he was accepted? Hint, his true age was not known until after WWII.

 

[Njaco]

Colonel Chesley 'Pete' Peterson....21 years old?

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Nope. There were at least two younger than him. One was 19 years old.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Ok, we're loosing the thread again yall!
Hint, his doctored birth certificate said he was 19 at the time he signed up.

 

[Njaco]

Barak Obama?

 

[Soldier]

William Dunn

 

[GrauGeist]

Barak Obama?

Fer the love of Gawd, man...warn me next time...I damn-near blew beer through my nose with that one...

 

[pattle]

The name of the legless RAF fighter pilot shot down over France and later repatriated before wars end?

 

[Njaco]

Douglas Bader?

 

[Airframes]

Nope, Bader wasn't repatriated. One of the Dunstan brothers maybe?

 

[pattle]

No not Douglas Bader, this pilot started his career in the Fleet Air Arm but lost his legs in a flying accident and later transferred to the RAF where he flew Spitfires.

 

[Airframes]

Darn, I know who it is, but can't remember his name!
The Dunstan brother I was thinking of was one of two brothers in Bomber Command, who re-mustered after losing his legs in the Army, and became an air gunner.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

All except squadron leaders were American, this young gentleman's parents were Osage Indians with traces of Cherokee, Choteau, French, and Irish blood. Now there's a mixture.

 

[pattle]

Darn, I know who it is, but can't remember his name!
The Dunstan brother I was thinking of was one of two brothers in Bomber Command, who re-mustered after losing his legs in the Army, and became an air gunner.

Colin Hoppy Hodgkinson of Somerset.