WWII Quiz

boris116 said:
Thanks, Perseus!

The next question:
Who was the intermediary for the Stalin's attempt to reach a separate peace with Germany in 1941?
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Hmm

Levrentiy Beria via the Bulgaria Ambassador Ivan Stamenov?
 
Ok this is a bit more cryptic than I want it to be but it is a very easy question.

What event took place on the 17th August 1943 and what made it unusual? (I have checked 6 locations for this event, 3 say the 17th and 3 the 15th so I really dont know how there can be such a descrepency but the event remains the same).

Bonus if you can say who broke the news to those involved before the event.
 
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Allied troops reach Messina and occupy all of Sicily, Italy.

Operation 'Double Strike': First U.S. daylight air raid, with 229 B17's (36 shot down), on Schweinfurt (and Regensburg) in Germany, 320 km; the Americans attempting a daylight raid without fighter escort.
Schweinfurt was the location of huge ball-bearing factories that supplied most of the ball-bearings for the entire German military. The second raid on 14 Octobre, 291 B17's now with 60 loses.

597 RAF bombers bomb German Rocket Launching Site Peenemünde.
The production of the V1 Flying Bomb began in Germany in 1942, but the actual launch was delayed until 1944 because of successful Allied bombing of bomb sites.
 
Team Infidel said:
Allied troops reach Messina and occupy all of Sicily, Italy.

Operation 'Double Strike': First U.S. daylight air raid, with 229 B17's (36 shot down), on Schweinfurt (and Regensburg) in Germany, 320 km; the Americans attempting a daylight raid without fighter escort.
Schweinfurt was the location of huge ball-bearing factories that supplied most of the ball-bearings for the entire German military. The second raid on 14 Octobre, 291 B17's now with 60 loses.

597 RAF bombers bomb German Rocket Launching Site Peenemünde.
The production of the V1 Flying Bomb began in Germany in 1942, but the actual launch was delayed until 1944 because of successful Allied bombing of bomb sites.
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Nope, Nope and Nope.
However as you didnt list the event I had better go check my dates.

The date seems to be disputed (beats me how) so depending on your source it could be listed as the 15th August 1943.
 
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Yeah that will do, I am really finding this date annoying as I now have a third date of August 7th.

But anyway here is one site with information on the battle and its odd nature.

http://canadianheroes.org/henri/the-battle-for-kiska-story.htm

The answer to the two parts to the question were.

1) What event took place on the 17th August 1943 and what made it unusual?

A) The batlle for Kiska, it was unusal because there was a sizable number of combat related fatalities and yet the Japanese had abandoned the island some time before.

2) Bonus if you can say who broke the news to those involved before the event.

A) Tokyo Rose apparently broadcast their destination and a warning to them while they were in transit.

All yours Team Infidel.
 
At it's hightest troop strength in 1945, what was the population of the United States Army in terms of number of soldiers? You need to be within 1000 soldiers to be correct.
 
Close enough. The exact number I got from the Army Management and Staff college was 8,266,373 at the hightest point..

Your turn Perseus
 
Team Infidel said:
At it's hightest troop strength in 1945, what was the population of the United States Army in terms of number of soldiers? You need to be within 1000 soldiers to be correct.
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Hmmm the info I have says the highest troop strength was 31 Mar 1945 and that was:
Strength U.S. Army - 8,157,386
Strength Army Ground Forces - 2,753,517
 
MontyB said:
Hmmm the info I have says the highest troop strength was 31 Mar 1945 and that was:
Strength U.S. Army - 8,157,386
Strength Army Ground Forces - 2,753,517
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I got my info from the historians here on post.
 
Yep not arguing with you at all, for some reason the post should have come through much earlier so I am guessing internet lag.

:)
 
In Germany during the middle part of the war, there was a mass protest at the incarceration and proposed ‘deportation’ of a certain class of Jewish detainee despite attempts by the propaganda ministry and SS to silence the protesters.
Who were they and what was special about them?
Who protested?
What was the outcome?
 
Damn, Perseus, that is a good one. I will be doing some research on this one, but right now, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about!!!!
 
perseus said:
In Germany during the middle part of the war, there was a mass protest at the incarceration and proposed ‘deportation’ of a certain class of Jewish detainee despite attempts by the propaganda ministry and SS to silence the protesters.
Who were they and what was special about them?
Who protested?
What was the outcome?
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This answer is a cut and paste from http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/rosenstr.htm

Sorry about this but I had the website bookmarked for a future question.


This would be the Rosenstrasse Protest?

Rosenstrasse represents the little-attended-to story of the German women who rescued their husbands from deportation and death in early 1943. Swept up from their forced labor jobs in what was meant to be the Final Roundup in the national capital, 1700-2000 Jews, mostly men married to non-Jewish women, were separated from the 6000 other victims of the Gestapo and SS and herded into Rosenstrass e 2-4, a welfare office for the Jewish community in central Berlin. Because these Jews had German relatives, many of them highly connected, Adolf Eichmann hoped that segregating them from the others would convince family members that their loved ones were being sent to labor camps rather than to more ominous destinations in occupied Poland. Normally, those arrested remained in custody for two days before being loaded onto trains for the East. Before that could happen in this case, however, wives and other relatives got wind of what was happening and appeared at the Rosenstrasse address, first in ones and twos, and then in ever-growing numbers. Perhaps as many as six thousand participated in the protest, although not all at the same time. Women demanded back their husbands, day after day, for a week. Unarmed, unorganized, and leaderless, they faced down the most brutal forces at the disposal of the Third Reich. Goebbels, Gauleiter of Berlin and anxious to have it racially cleansed, was also in charge of the nation's public morale. On both counts he was worried about the possible repercussions of the women's actions. Rather than inviting more open dissent by shooting the women down in the streets and fearful of jeopardizing the secrecy of the Final Solution, Goebbels with Hitler's concurrence released the Rosenstrasse prisoners and also ordered the return of twenty-five of them already sent to Auschwitz. To both men, the decision was a mere postponement of the inevitable. But they were mistaken. Almost all of those released survived the war.



PS if I am correct can I hand the next question over to someone else as I wont be around much for a little while.
 
Yes Monty you are correct, well done for finding this!

Perhaps this serves as a reminder that even in the most brutal regimes public opinion counts and protesting can achieve results (sometimes).

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