Picture Quiz

I knew I spelled Hugo's name wrong. Forgot the final "t" didn't I? Oh well, it didn't look right but I figured you'd know who I meant!

Ok, who is the famous Nazi leading this parade?

 

Picture is not one of the clearest that I´ve seen, but I would take a pure guess and go with Rudolf Hess?

 

It doesn't expand very well, and I apologize for that. But nope, not Hess. A hint, he never fought in either war. At least I don't think he was old enough to have fought in The Great War.

 

I'll take a stab, how about Horst Wessel

 

Dang, you got him. I thought that would take longer, but I should have known it wouldn't really.

It was he who wrote the lyrics to the song; Die Fahne hoch ("Raise the flag"), which became The Horst Wessel Lied after his demise. While he was shacked up with a prostitute, it is unlikely he was her pimp. When he was shot in the face he was having a "rent dispute" with his landlady who was a well known pro-communist party type.

Goto:

YouTube - horst wessel original sound and lyrics.

That was the song "drowned out" by La Marseillaise in the movie Casablanca.

Yer up Mr. Leonard!

 

Who is this gent and what is his claim to fame in the footnotes of World War II? Extra points if you can name where and roughly when the photo was taken.

Rich

 

okay, hint number 1. Posing in front of an F4F, obviously aboard a carrier, gives you some idea of this gent's persuasion, his stock and trade, as it were. The event for which he is known occurred about a month before this picture was taken.

 

No, picture was taken long, long, before Vraciu, ever entered combat.

 

What is the definition of "long, long"

 

A little more than 3 years and 2 months after this picture, he became commander of a fighter-bomber squadron when its CO, Commander Porter W Maxwell, was killed in action.

". . . long, long, before Vraciu ever entered combat " When Vraciu was awarded his naval aviator wings, this picture had already been taken and the event for which this gent is remembered was three months in the past. Vraciu did not enter combat until sixteen months after this picture was taken. In a war of but 45 months (for the US, anyway), 16 months is a "long, long" time and a new generation of fighter planes later.

 

Walter Haas scored the first USN kill of an A6M on 7 May 42 during Battle of Coral Sea.

If I have that right, he also jury-rigged a shoulder harness into the F4F after smashing his head on the gunsight in a couple of ditchings.

 

Yes indeedy, Walt Haas of VF-42. This shot was taken on USS Hornet in front of the victory credits photo op plane on the way back to Pearl about a week after the battle. I never knew he worked on a jury rig a shoulder harness. Early F4F's, even the -4's, only had lap belts. My father remarked that the VF-42/VF-3 types who ended up on Hornet after the dust had settled were surprised that the VF-8 F4F-4's had shoulder harnesses, but they were also jury rigged and installed aboard the ship. It was not until mid summer 1942 that F4Fs were coming off the production line with factory installed shoulder belts.

Looks like your turn!

Rich

 

At first I thought that was the 'event' you were referencing, then I found the Zeke reference. Apparently, he was pretty tall, note the 'high water' pants in your photo, and had a couple of ditchings in a short period of time which led him to pursue the harness (google is your friend!).

 

Who are these men, and where are they going? The man on the left may be a bit of an obscure name, but the other two are not.

 

Clue time:

1). Close scrutiny of the cowl will tell you the aircraft type.
2). Putting a flak jacket over a summer uniform with the sleeves rolled up, hmmm...
3). I wonder how good that map is?

 

A guess on the plane would be an F4F, but that's probably wrong... no idea on the people.

 

Yep. Thats wrong. I think the plane is B-24, and the guys are helping to wear protective vest. But I seriously dont have any idea of the persons in the photo.

Dont we have another "people quiz" in here? I thought this should be something else than "who´s who in history".