World War 2 Trivia

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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.
 
Njaco said:
GG, why not try another question?
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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?
 
The name of the legless RAF fighter pilot shot down over France and later repatriated before wars end?
 
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.
 
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.
 
Airframes said:
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.
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Colin Hoppy Hodgkinson of Somerset.
 
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