WWII Forums Quiz Part IV

Heh heh, another interesting note, Smedley Butler is also my name when playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead

(*RaD*) Lt. Smedley Butler

 

Around Cuba in the Spanish American war?

 

Lol, nope, but your getting warmer

 

Haiti-the debacle there?

 

Ur kinda part right, But you can get closer

In the _________ of ________ and _________
the battle of Guadalcanal was won

 

battle of Vertières? Lol, im learnin alot about Smedley Butler, still have not found the battle

 

nope


Btw, not a specific battle:

Two, 'Military Incursions'

 

Ok, the answer was:

In the jungles of Nicaragua and Honduras, the battle of Guadalcanal was won.


The tactics used by Marines in jungle fighting throughout the Pacific war were developed during American involvment in Honduras and Nicaragua.


Ill think of a new question

 

Great, I was lost there, just couldnt find the answer, but did find out alot about Smedley Butler.

 

Why did American Forces decide to bypass the island of Mindanao and instead land at Leyte? Thereby speeding up the American timetable in the Pacific by 6 weeks?


CvM

 

Because the Americans planned to take Leyte instead for 2 reasons.
1) So that MacArthur could keep his promise and retake the Phillipines starting by December 1944.
and 2) so that Mindanoa could be surrounded and the garrison there annihilated without risking Allied casualties and lessen there for force for what would have been a later strike on Leyte.

 

I'd like to know what your source was, But that is not the answer i have.

Next guess.

 

G'day

Because they were short of men and in this way containing the Japanese and blockading them with the use of the Navy with Submarines?

Popski

 

Nope, Ill give you a hint:

An Airman had to do with it

 

I´m afraid I didn´t quite catch the hint but I did check the net for this:

Earlier plans had called for an invasion of the southern island of Mindanao as the next stepping stone in the successful "island-hopping" campaign employed to date by the two fleets in the Pacific – the Third Fleet under Admiral Nimitz, and the Seventh Fleet under General MacArthur. But, with the apparent collapse of the Japanese fleet and air power, the plan to invade the central Philippines was advanced two months from December to October of 1944

http://www.battleship.org/html/Articles/History/Leyte0.htm

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After the Battle of the Philippine Sea (dubbed "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" by American pilots) Japan had only a handful of planes, and even fewer pilots to fly them. Because of this, her carriers were largely useless for any practical duty. Except, perhaps, to serve as decoys to lure away the American Thrid Fleet under Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey who had been itching for a chance at a massive engagement since he missed the battle of Midway.

So elements of the remnants of the Japanese fleet sailed from home waters, and other ships from the island of Borneo. The plan was actually quite simple. Admiral Ozawa was to sail in from the North East with his "bait" of four aircraft carriers, and the two hybrid battleship-carriers Ise and Hyuga featuring four battleship turrets forward, and small flight decks aft. But, for this mission, they would carry no aircraft at all, as none were available. Even the large fleet carriers were not carrying a full complement of planes.

 

Sry but thats not the answer I have, but ill give you the next question.


The Answer was: A pilot was shot down off Mindonao and the natives told him "No body was there!" so, they bipassed mindonao.

Ok Kai, your up!

 

Ok, thanx Carl!

Interesting bit of info on that Mindonao!

Well, something easy (?) and we´ll see if anyone´s listened to what I´ve been writing...

What were called the shots fired late November 1939 that started the Winter War? That is according to the place that they were shot.I think it was in 1992 that the Russians finally admitted they had shot them instead of Finland.

 

THE KOTKA BARRAGE

 

Nice try Panzerknacker but no, the name of the village starts with M...

On November 26, the Russians accused the Finns of having shelled the small village of M*****, killing a number of Soviet militaries. In fact it was nothing more than a Maskirovka, a ruse. The Finns didn't have any artillery pieces close enough to reach the village, and it was later revealed that it was the Russians themselves who had done the shelling in order to pin it on their western neighbor.

 

Ok, so it was Mainila.

A new question:

How many of 21 defendants were sentenced to death at Nuremberg?