It's time for another WW2 quiz!

One german nightfighter ace piloting an HE-219 Uhu made a silly noob mistake that cost him his life when he was shot down by a RAF Mosquito on night patrol. What was his mistake?

 

Turned on his navigation lights?

 

Almost... He forgot to turn his light off after taking of from refueling for his second sortie of that night. The mosquito had spotted him earlier that night and lost him when he landed. It was about to call it quit and rejoined the formation when he spotted the light.

 

Beside the german Maus, which coutry suffered from delusion of grandeur and produced an over the top, ridiculous tank design and what was that tank?

 

That was an impressive idea, but the whole design was a dead end. I mean, really, what the hell they were thinking of? A tank, which you:
1)can't transport by train
2)can't send across the bridge
3)can't produce because it is going to ruin your economy
4)you have no idea how to evacuate and repair if it would be disabled.

The only thing I think was close to Maus' mass was French FCM F1.
(wooden mock-up)
140 tons.

But thinking about those, which were actually produced, I'd go for T28/T95

with it's 89 tons.

 

I was thinking of one that saw combat...
The T28/T95 was built too late to see combat.

You have the right country, the ussr, but you need the tank.

 

I am not aware of "suffered from delusion of grandeur and produced an over the top, ridiculous tank design" which were produced by USSR. The heaviest produced design was KV-2, 52 tons, build for very specific purposes.

 

You seem stuck on size... Delusion of grandeur also relates to feature or form not just size.
I'll give the answer now: The russian T-35

It was a monster of a tank equiped with not one or two turrets, but FIVE!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/T-35_model_1935.jpg

 

Damn, that crossed my mind but I was thinking of weight as well.

Oh well, ask another.

 

Hm...wasn't thinking about pre-WW2 produced tanks.

Still would go for French tanks.
75 ton Char 2C (2 turrets).

Brits were building 5-turret tanks too.
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But those didn't serve in ww2. The t-35 did.

Ok next question : which non axis troop fought beside the japanese during the singapor campaign and was responsible in part fort the ill treatment of the allied prisoner?

 

Korean

 

Char 2C served too.

 

2 turrets tank were common. The US grant had two also, or to be more precise one turret and one barbette.
In any case the T-35 with his five turrets was the one. Now try your luck at the next question.

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Nope, not even close

 

Without google I'd say INA, Indian National Army.

 

Yes it is. They were a violent indian indepedence movement and volunteered their services to who ever was fighting the british.

 

OK, let me ask one, what was Project Yehudi?

 

A camouflage system for aircraft

 

Right, invisible airplanes, but they show up on radar, so not really that useful.

They also had programs for invisible ships and invisible tanks.

 

Well the idea was good, especially against manual control ack ack.........but never mind

I guess that makes me batter up

In what city was the largest submarine base in the world located?

 

Okay I have to knock for the evening. The answer was Fremantle. I will hand off to whoever wants a turn

 

At the start of WW2, during the polish campaign, german fighter pilots encountered a problem when dogfighting polish fighter airplane. What was that problem and what was the solution to that problem.

 

Oh this is a new one for me- I am guessing that the Poles may have been flying German made planes and identification was difficult- though I don't remember the Poles purchasing 109's.

 

Nope. The poles had their own distinct planes.

 

Polish planes were older than German planes. They were slower and with open cockpits. This though gave them more manoeuvrability than the German planes and the lack of cockpits gave a better view. This enabled them to sometimes sneak up on German planes and then use their better manoeuvrability to survive.

I'm not sure what the Germans did to overcome that. Stack their flights, increase distance between them, maybe for better viewing?