Free Military Quiz II

Darn it! THATS his name--Dick nelson--I even still have his business card!

Sorry I couldnt think of his name--all I needed to do was to look at the signed pic--which aint in storage

#$^($%((the sound of pain)) You got me Kai

 

Okay, here it comes.

A Romanian unit was subordinated with a German Corp that took Mozdok. Please give me:

- Name commander
- Town captured
- Number of prisoners taken
- Number of dead from own unit


Have fun!

 

I thought Carl and Kai knew everything!

 

No, Erwin! They don't! Carl thought that Spanish-American war veterans were still alive last year and Kai thinks that Rommel was the best German commander...

 

Rommel was ONE of the best commanders!

Spannish-American war?
Spanish-American War (1898), conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.

The war originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which began in February 1895. Spain's brutally repressive measures to halt the rebellion were graphically portrayed for the U.S. public by several sensational newspapers, and American sympathy for the rebels rose. The growing popular demand for U.S. intervention became an insistent chorus after the unexplained sinking in Havana harbour of the battleship USS Maine (Feb. 15, 1898; see Maine, destruction of the), which had been sent to protect U.S. citizens and property after anti-Spanish rioting in Havana. Spain announced an armistice on April 9 and speeded up its new program to grant Cuba limited powers of self-government, but the U.S. Congress soon afterward issued resolutions that declared Cuba's right to independence, demanded the withdrawal of Spain's armed forces from the island, and authorized the President's use of force to secure that withdrawal while renouncing any U.S. design for annexing Cuba.

Spain declared war on the United States on April 24, followed by a U.S. declaration of war on the 25th, which was made retroactive to April 21. The ensuing war was pathetically one-sided, since Spain had readied neither its army nor its navy for a distant war with the formidable power of the United States. Commo. George Dewey led a U.S. naval squadron into Manila Bay in the Philippines on May 1, 1898, and destroyed the anchored Spanish fleet in a leisurely morning engagement that cost only seven American seamen wounded. Manila itself was occupied by U.S. troops by August.

The elusive Spanish Caribbean fleet under Adm. Pascual Cervera was located in Santiago harbour in Cuba by U.S. reconnaissance. An army of regular troops and volunteers under Gen. William Shafter (and including Theodore Roosevelt and his 1st Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders") landed on the coast east of Santiago and slowly advanced on the city in an effort to force Cervera's fleet out of the harbour. Cervera led his squadron out of Santiago on July 3 and tried to escape westward along the coast. In the ensuing battle all of his ships came under heavy fire from U.S. guns and were beached in a burning or sinking condition. Santiago surrendered to Shafter on July 17, thus effectively ending the war.

By the Treaty of Paris (signed Dec. 10, 1898), Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20,000,000. The Spanish-American War was an important turning point in the history of both antagonists. Spain's defeat decisively turned the nation's attention away from its overseas colonial adventures and inward upon its domestic needs, a process that led to both a cultural and a literary renaissance and two decades of much-needed economic development in Spain. The victorious United States, on the other hand, emerged from the war a world power with far-flung overseas possessions and a new stake in international politics that would soon lead it to play a determining role in the


A veteran of that war would - if 20 when the battle ended - be 125?

Hey, it is possibel!

 

Carl maybe knows everything but I don´t...!! ( I admit ...)



Sorry, Erwin, been away for a while:

1.2nd Mountain Division commanded by Gen. Ion Dumitrache

2.Nalcik

3. Soviet prisoners catured: 3,079

4. Own losses: 820

Gen. I. Dumitrache received the "Mihai Viteazul" Order and the "Ritterkreuz".

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Other interesting stuff:

The 6th Corps replaced the German 14th Armoured Division and the 29th Motorized Division in the bridgehead between Chimiliansky and Potiomkinskaya. Its mission was to attack north-eastwards and the advance towards Stalingrad continued until 12 August, when they reached the valley of the river Muscekova. On 20 August Romanian 6th Corps broke through enemy lines and advanced until 29 August, when they reached the southern outskirts of Stalingrad and took defensive positions.

The Germans were very impressed with 6th Corps' performance (in two months, it advanced over 800 km, more than any other German infantry unit in Southern Russia). Gen. Corneliu Dragalina, the corps' commander, was awarded the "Ritterkreuz".

http://www.wwii.home.ro/caucaz.htm

 

Okay Kai!

You're next to pose a question.

 

Thanx Erwin,

Ok. Back to Vietnam.

Tell the dates for the first test mission and operational mission for dropping AGENT ORANGE in Southern Vietnam?

day-month-year for both!

 

First operational mission was January 1965.

Just confirm this Kai.

 

Fried--I would never admit that Kai knows it all but we know that you and Erwin can compare to us--Right Kai?

PS--I had no access to a computer--now im back and in the full swing of things.

And Fried--there atill are some of those vets still living as well as Germans who were in the Boxer Rebellion. Dont shoot me--tell it to the USAF's Command Chaplain--would he lie?

 

ONE of the best. Not THE BEST!

Exactly! I didn't know Biology allowed that...

No, there aren't! If there are I'll swear that my English neighbour is a veteran of the 1812 war! And no, they won't lie, but they surely have to UPDATE their data. And just test me and we'll see who's the most stubborn!!!

 

Yes, Erwin, January 1962 is the month and year. More coming up?

 

No, not for the moment.

But I keep on searching!

 

Any dates known?

 

No Kai. I really do not know this one.

And it seems that no one else is responding.

 

No Kai. I really do not know this one.

And it seems that no one else is responding.

 

June 28, 1966.

 

Sorry Panzerknacker, no!

Two dates in January 1962...

 

Ok, the dates are the 10th and the 13th of January 1962.

Next question:

Manfred von Richthofen

In his second air combat (still as an observer, 1915), Richthofen exchanges fire with a French plane. The Allied plane dropped away and crashed, but Richthofen was not credited with the victory. Why´s that?

 

The pilot was intoxicated