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 World War II
| Whose army was nicknamed the 'Desert Rats' ? | The History of World War II (swashbuckler) |
Bernard Law Montgomery. 'The Desert Rats' was the nickname of the British 8th Army under Montgomery which emerged victorious in the second Battle of El Alamein in November 1942.
| Whom did some Germans (mainly Berliners) sarcastically refer to as "Groefaz"? | The Second World War (pattons3rd) |
Adolf Hitler. On the whole, Berliners who were never as fond of Hitler as many people from other parts of Germany and they sometimes referred to Hitler as "Groefaz". This stood for "groeßter Feldherr aller Zeiten", which means "greatest general of all times", a description given him by sycopathants after the victory over France. But since Stalingrad it had a rather less flattering flavor.
| Who were the first recipients of American bullets in ground combat during declared war in World War II in the European Theater of Operations? | World War 2: Mixture 2 (kabeesh) |
French. Although the Japanese were the first to eat American lead from surface anti-aircraft batteries at Pearl Harbor, there was no state of war existing at the time between the two nations. The Japanese then engaged Americans on the ground at the Phillippines, Wake Island, Guam Island, the Aleutians, and many lesser known battles across the Pacific. The Germans were the next, but they found combat on the seas, with the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. The correct answer was the French. During Operation Torch, the American invasion of North Africa, the Vichy French were occupying Morocco. Although the French troops were generally unwilling to fight, they had orders to oppose the Allies, and so many did. Therefore, the first enemies on the ground in World War II in the ETO were the French. The Italians came soon after, in the North African and Southern Europe campaigns.
| Who were the 'night witches'? | Second World War [B] (bowsoljah) |
Female Russian combat pilots. These women who were a part of the regular Soviet Army flew at night using old Russian bi-planes that were bombers. Even their fighter escorts were women from their own squadrons. There were even two fighter 'aces'. Lily Litvak with 12 kills and Katya Budanova with 11. Though they were called the "night witches" not all their missions were flown at night.
| Who were the 'Big Four' at the Versailles Conference held in the Hall of Mirrors? | Causes of World War II (translucent) |
Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyed George and Vittorio Orlando. They helped Wilson write most of the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. They thought it would bring {peace;} Germans called it a 'diktat' or a dictated peace.
| Who were known during WWII as "the Brylcream Boys"? | World War II: Strange and Less Known Facts (paratroop5) |
Royal Air Force personnel. It was a nickname given to R.A.F. personnel during WWII by other British services in the belief that the R.A.F. were better educated, and those that some of them were snobs.
| Who were known as the Desert Rats? | World War II: Strange and Less Known Facts (paratroop5) |
British 7th Armored Division. It was a nickname given to the British 7th Armored Division which fought in North Africa and has remained in use ever since.
| Who was United States Secretary of War during America's involvement in the war? | Who's Who? - World War II (domoarigato) |
Henry Stimson. As important as the position of Secretary of War was, I have never read about him in any history textbook or any of my other three possibilities. At one time, Stimson had been Secretary of War in the Taft Administration, Governor-General of the Phillippines, and Secretary of State under Hoover.
| Who was the Red Army commander, who was in charge of the Fourth Ukranian Front? | The War That Changed the World (nreese21) |
General Tolbukhin. General Tolbukhin's Fourth Ukranian front was respobsible for cutting off the Germans in Crimea. 150,000 German and Romanian troops occupied the Crimea at the time of its encirclement. The Germans even considered at one time abandoning these 150,000 troops, believing it might improve the German on the Russian front would better.
| Who was the overall commander of all Allied forces in Europe at the end of WWII? | World War ll History (gamesrfun2222) |
General Eisenhower. Eisenhower was nominated the Supreme commander of all Allied forces in Europe. He later went on to become President of The United States.
| Who was the only U.S. Navy Officer to be court-martialed for losing a ship in World War Two? | World War Two : Part B (Regor) |
Captain C.B. McVay. Captain Charles B. McVay, commanding officer of the USS Indianapolis CA-35, which was sunk on July 30, 1945, by Japanese submarine I-58. It was the greatest loss of life (883) on the high seas ever sustained by the U.S. Navy.
| Who was the only U.S. Marine Corp General to ever command a field Army? | World War Two : Part B (Regor) |
Maj. General Roy S. Geiger. Major General Roy S. Geiger, who was second in command to U.S. Army General Simon B. Buckner Jr., this happened when General Buckner was killed during the battle of Okinawa. General Geiger immediately assumed command of the U.S. Tenth Army.
| Who was the most honored Soviet commander of WWII? | Second World War [B] (bowsoljah) |
General Zhukov. Ruthless, hard-driving, he abused his subordinates and was widely disliked. He none-the-less got results and rose rapidly in the Red Army. He organized the successful defense of Leningrad and then did the same at Moscow. He was commander of the Russian forces that captured Berlin.
| Who was the leader of the Cetniks, a would-be resistance group in Yugoslavia? | Who's Who? - World War II (domoarigato) |
Draza Mihailovic. The resistance war in Yugoslavia was ugly in the extreme. The Chetniks not only fought against the Germans, but also against rival resistance organizations and non-Serbian ethnic groups. The various resistance organizations hoped to control Yugoslavia after the war and tried to weaken or eliminate rival groups.
| Who was the King of Belgium during Germany's invasion? | World War II (beth70) |
Leopold III. On May 27, 1940, the Belgian King, Leopold III, surrendered his army. This was the cause of much controversy, as many felt he surrendered too easily, and after WWII and he had to abdicate.
| Who was the Head of the SS? | World War II (davide) |
| Who was the greatest fighter ace of all time? | Second World War [B] (bowsoljah) |
Erich Hartmann. Hartmann shot down 352 planes and flew 1425 sorties. Rall shot down 275, Nishizawa of Japan shot down 113. Kozuhedub of the Soviet Union shot down 62. Erich Hartmann survived the war and was captured by Americans in 1945. They promptly turned him over to the Russians. Once the Soviets found out who he was they brutally tortured him and tried to get him to endorse Communism although he never did. Most surviving German POW's held in Russia were released by 1951, however Hartmann was not released until 1955, spending almost ten and a half years as a prisoner. Once recovering from this physical and psychological trauma he rejoined the West German Air Force in 1959 and led a productive career.
| Who was the German Commando who rescued Mussolini from the Badglio Government on September 12, 1943? | World War Two : Part C (Regor) |
SS Major Otto Skorzeny. SS Major Otto Skorzeny, was asked by Hitler himself to bring the Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini back to Berlin. Mussolini was being held prisoner by the Badoglio Government on Gran Sasso. German paratroopers commanded by Major Sorzeny rescued him.
| Who was the Fuehrer's "Brown Eminence"? | World War II in General (cliffster69) |
Martin Bormann. Bormann was called this because he wore brown boots.
| Who was the first non-Chinese General ever to be in command of Chinese troops? | World War Two : Part B (Regor) |
Lt. General Joseph W. Stilwell. Lt. General Joseph W. Stilwell of the U.S. Army, commanded the Chinese Fifth and Sixth Armies in Burma in 1942.
| Who was the first German General to be killed in action after the Allied invasion of Normandy June 6, 1944? | World War Two : Part B (Regor) |
Maj. General Wilhelm Falley. Maj. General Wilhelm Falley, Commander of the 91st Infantry Division at Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944, was fatally wounded by U.S. troops of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
| Who was the first British General to land in Normandy on D-Day 6 June 1944? | World War Two : Part A (Regor) |
Maj. General Richard Gale. Major General Richard Gale, was the commanding General of the British 6th Airborne, that dropped behind the Normandy beaches to capture and secure the Caen canal and Orne River bridges on D-Day June 6, 1944. They were the first Allied Forces to land in Normandy.
| Who was the first American General to command four field Armies in World War Two? | World War Two : Part A (Regor) |
General Omar N. Bradley. During the drive into Germany the U.S. First, Third, Ninth and Fifteenth Armies were under the command of General Omar N. Bradley. Their combined strength was nearly a million men.
| Who was the first American general killed during the war? | WWII - Strange & Interesting Facts: 3 (HurricaneBill) |
Herbert Arthur Dargue. Darque was killed when his plane crashed in California on December 12, 1941, while he was headed to Hawaii to take up his post as new commander of the US Army at Pearl Harbor. McNair was killed on July 25, 1944, by allied bombs during Operation COBRA. Buckner, whose father was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, was killed on Okinawa on June 18, 1945, by enemy artillery fire. Bryant is just a friend of mine.
| Who was the director of the Manhattan Project? | Second World War [B] (bowsoljah) |
J. Robert Oppenheimer. He was appointed by General Groves who overrode objections from scientists and Army counter-intelligence. They opposed naming someone whose fiancee, wife, brother and sister-in-law were or had previously been members of the Communist Party.
| Who was the designer of the German Focke Wulf 190 fighter? | World War II - Miscellaneous (karltrowitz) |
Kurt Tank. Kurt Tank was the main aircraft designer for the Focke Wulf company. The final version of the Focke Wulf 190 was named the Ta 152 (Tank 152) in his honour.
| Who was the commander of the US Navy during WW2? | Second World War [A] (bowsoljah) |
Admiral King. Admiral Ernest Joseph King was 'the most even tempered man in the Navy' was what one of his daughters said: 'He is always in a rage'. Admiral Nimitz was CINCPACFLT Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet. Admirals Halsey and Spruance were Task Force commanders.
| Who was the commander of the Fast Carrier Striking Force which attacked Pearl Harbor in Dec 1941? | The History of World War II (swashbuckler) |
Chuichi Nagumo. Nagumo entered the Indian Ocean April in 1942, attacked British naval bases in Ceylon, and sank several British warships. He was decisively defeated at the Battle of Midway in May 1942, but fared better in the Solomons and at Santa Cruz, although he lost much of his aircraft strength.
| Who was the British commander of the Allied forces in Malaya and Singapore? | World War 2 in General (bertho) |
General Percival. To some extent Percival was blamed for the fall of Singapore. Only in recent times have historians managed to shift the blame to Churchill and the Admiralty for grossly underestimating Japanese tactics and fighting ability.
| Who was the American Vice-President when the U.S. entered World War Two in December 1941? | World War Two : Part A (Regor) |
Henry A. Wallace. Henry A. Wallace, was elected with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 election.
| Who was the Allied General, whom the German High Command respected above all others? | World War Two : Part A (Regor) |
General George S. Patton Jr.. General George S. Patton Jr. The German High Comand simply couldn't believe the Allies would not use him to lead the D-Day invasion, and they waited for 'Army Group Patton' to storm the Pas de Calais instead of Normandy because they were sure he would be used in some capacity.
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