Weapons of ww2 Quiz

Little Boy and Fat Man

[ 06. August 2003, 09:59 PM: Message edited by: T. A. Gardner ]

 

I know No.3 but it's name escapes me...

 

WELROD!

I wish that idio...um, I wish that guy will come back. Then we will never know if our answers are right (though most of us are 100% certain anyway)

 

Welrod was British Joe. The answer to number 3 is the Colt 1908 .25Cal Vest Pocket Pistol. Used mainly by the OSS in the far east.

 

4. Incorrect question. It should be "companies" - Smith & Wesson, Colt, Iver Johnson, and Harrington & Richardson.

JT

 

Hello JT. Apologies but I stole the Colt 1908 answer from you (in another place) I knew that I had heard of it somewhere before. You own a 1908 if my memory serves me right.

 

No apology necessary. Yes, I own one. But to the best of my knowledge, which admittedly is not great, the OSS in the Orient used mainly .32 and .380 Colt pistols. Whether these were for "assasination," as the topic starter wrote, is doubtful, but it certainly makes for an exciting story.

The OSS did purchase a few of the .25s. Although the number is uncertain, the estimate is 200-400 pistols for OSS use. Compare this to the M1903 .32 at 17,000 (this is for all military use, not only OSS), and the M1908 .380 at 3,100.

This information comes from Charles Pate's book, where there is a photo of an OSS officer in China with a Colt .32 pistol.

JT

 

Yes, I know that now. But back then, my knowledge of WW2 was nowhere as much as I do now (It surprises me how much I have learned these past few months-so it was a good idea of mine joining these forums!). The reason for my answer being as it was, well, I think thats best kept a secret...

 

#4: Smith and Wesson
#7: Chi-Ha and Hago
#10: Little Boy (Hiroshima) and Fat man (Nagasaki)

 

#8 i believe it was codenamed "David"

 

No. 10 is "fat man" and little boy

 

1.pm-37
2.pm1910? dshk1938?
3.liberator
4.s&w
5.tiger2
6.t34
10.fat man litttle boy

 

10. I only Little Boy but I don't know the name of the second one

 

I think its FP-45 Liberator

 

a tracked 203mm howitzer would be a self-propelled

 

The Soviet tracked 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4) was not self-propelled they were towed.

 

well i guess the word 'tracked' in the 40s doesn't mean tracked vehicle as it does today. Well the towed gun wouldn't suffice for an answer anyway.

 

The towed tracked concept is still in use today by the US Army

 

Even the 280mm Br-5 Mortar Mod. 1939 was tracked and towed

 

well during my 8 years in the marines a 155 was still towed and anything with tracks on it was a track, amtracs tanks, and m88 all of them. and besides that TM manuel is 15 years old and today there are alot of new vehicles out there. even in 2003 in the desert i saw no damn tracked cargo trailers.