WWII Forums Quiz Part IV

The day is January 11, 1944; The 8th USAAF is conduction an Maxumum Effort mission at Luftwaffe factories at Braunschweig, Oschersleben and Halberstadt. 60 US bombers are shot down. Many more damaged.

One battle-damaged B17 struggles to maintain formation. Two engines are damaged. One of them is on fire. The pilot and co-pilot struggle at the controls. The crew is trowing everything detachable overboard to make the bomber lighter. Over the Zuiderzee the pilot says he can't keep the bomber in the air and orders the crew to bail out at landfall. All, except the pilot, bail out. Unfortunately most of the crew land in the water near Amsterdam and some drown.

Shortly after the men jump from the stricken plane, the fire in the engine dies out. The pilot is able to keep the B17 under control. He decides to try and fly the plane as far towards England as possible. In fact he manages to fly -and land- his bomber to England. Groundcrew are amazed to find only the pilot emerging from the plane...

Question; Who was the pilot and with which Bomb Group did he fly?

[ 17. April 2003, 01:05 PM: Message edited by: Stevin Oudshoorn ]

 

Answering this is a job for Superman or Erich Brown.

 

Maybe a bit too much detail here??? The answer can be found on the net, I believe...

Ok, little hin, although I expect Kai to come up with the answer any moment.... :

The co-pilot wrote a book about it called They Helped Me Escape

 

Sorry my friend--you got me on this one. Also--the air war isnt my Forte.

 

I have heard this story and remember it-of course, naturally I can't remember the important parts however, was it 96th BG?

 

I can't find the answer anywhere, so I thought I'd post this link to keep us amused while we wait for Erich or Kai to come up with the right answer !

http://www.303rdbga.com/art-hill-mightinflight.jpg

 

Martin, You are SO WARM you should be melting!

 

91st BG, pilot: 2nd Lt. Daniel V. Ohman.

 

Thanks for trying, Volkbert! But no, Lt. Ohman died on July 30, 1943 when his plane crashed near Opijnen, the Netherlands after bombing the messerschmidt factory in Kassel.

He was shot down by Lt. Johannes Neumann of JG26.

Another hint; the book was written by the co-pilot Clayton David.

But Volbert, Ohman was the navigator, not the pilot.

Again, Martin was VERY close...

 

Come on guys let's keep it moving...

 

It was Jack W Watson in B-17 Meathound of the 358th BS, 303rd BG out of Molesworth.

http://www.303rdbga.com/358watson.html

 

Martin, well doen! I am impressed!

I am writing Clayton David this weekend.

In anyway, the floor is yours!

 

'Warley Fen's runways are still in position although they cannot be seen for growing crops....Only the Control Tower is in anything like its original condition, although if you ascend the iron staircase be careful.

You might end up writing a book about it.'

Which classic WWII book, by a best-selling author, is this the last line of ?

 

What - no-one even going to have a guess at it ??

 

Ok, Martin!

Here goes nothing...

Bomber
by Len Deighton??

 

Great guess...er, skillful answer, Kai ! Right on the button - and over to you.....

 

Thanx Martin!

Ok, the question is simple enough:

What was operation Anthropoid?

 

Some chezk geezers got together to kill some bloke from an occupying military force...

We'e call em terrorists today..

Then they were called heros.

Assasination of Hydiche..

 

I´m sure this is the man you mean, Urgh!

The one and only Mr Reinhard Heydrich!



Over to you, Urgh!

 

Yep, sorry Kai and others...when you read my posts youll see lots of spelling and gramatical errors...And sometimes just downright wrong words...typing at 50 wpm on a fold away keyboard most of time, or else on laptop...trained to type at early age and still looking for those carriage returns on the pc....

OK, Name the Greek commanding general that routed the invading Italian forces on the Albanian border? Probably easy to find so a supplementary..
Name also his opposite Italian commanding general...?