ww2 random quiz 2

What nation scored the first air to air kill? :kill:

 

First Kill.

I'd say that has to be Germany Vs. Poland, assuming that we're talking WWII, although a lot depends on where you are since here in Britain WWII started two days later than if you're in Poland...

 

I have no idea. Maybe a Pole got lucky ?

 

It was Poland, I can't find the pilot, but he downed a Ju-87, creating the first air-to-air kill of ww2.

The next random ww2 question is....

How many marines were killed/wounded in the initial landings on Guadalcanal?

 

the first planes downed were a couple of Do 17, in Poland, I do not remember the name of the pilot, sorry

 

I assume that these bombers were operating without fighter cover? Alone they are easily killed but with Bf-109s circling overhead this will get quite messy.

As to the second question, I have no idea but it'll have been thousands anyway.

 

I'll just give the answer to number 2. It wasn't in the thousands. When the marines first lanmded only one wound was suffered. Some guy wounded himself with his bayonet, when trying to open a coconut. (this only includes the landings)

 

That must have been where the Japanese waited until there were thousands of Marines on the beach before hitting them with everything they had.

 

I believe that I read that the Japanese shot down the first plane. For some people WW2 started in China.
Skip

 

Hi Skip! Welcome to the forum.

Indeed there is still some debate as to when WW2 started, and no exact day can be pinpointed as the starting date of world war. We have had a discussion on it, it's quite dead now. Some new blood perhaps?

I can't seem to find it... Sorry.

 

Didn't he cut his hand with a machete when he opened the coconut? Not that it really matters anyway...

The starting date for WWII is different for every country I would think, as countries were declaring war left and right during the whole conflict. China's WWII would have started in 1931 while the US's WWII would have started in 1941, and so on.

 

I fond them!!!!
On Sept. 1st Sublieutenent Wladyslaw Gnys, flying a PZL P-11c, shot down a couple of Do 17E , and a Stuka Ju 87, pilot Frank Neuber and gunner Franz Klinger shot down a PZL P-11c flown by Captain Mieczyslaw Medwecki

 

What's a PZL P-11c? I can see that it is a fighter, but I have no idea what it looks like or anything else...

 

Looks like this :

 

Where's the weaponry, pardon my ignorance, thanks for the picture...

 

on the sides of the plane, just behind the engine

 

Some of them had four guns as well, two in the wings in addition to the two mounted in the fuselage. The one in the picture doesn´t seem to have that though.

 

It reminds me of the Polikarpov I-16...

 

polish plane

This plane is a polish PZL P.11

 

we already know thatt look: