WWII Forums Quiz Part V

Doh ! My brain has seized up !

The unit must have been a Wing...and after that I'm stuck ... This is Stevin's revenge for Bruce Clarke

 

A wing! I've got a wing!

Do I hear which wing??? Anybody?

Thank you for that bid Martin!

I leave this till tomorrow morning for our American friends to try; The conclusion of Bruce Clarke's Revenge! (You ain't seen nothing yet!)

 

NJG 11 the top killing anti-Mosquito unit !

yeah I know it isn't RAF.........rats !

 

Let's try Roland Beamont and 123 Wing (No.s 198 and 609 squadrons) flying Typhoons.

 

Getting closer and closer, T.A.!

Typhoons is correct. Wing no. and commander are not the ones who bombed the SD offices in Amsterdam. The wing had 192 Sqn 'under its wings'.

I am at work now, so I can't give you more dates when this wing flew similar missions. I do know they also bombed buildings in Rotterdam and Dordrecht in this period. They operated primarily in Holland at this time.

Care to bid again, or shall we go on and withdraw this one as unsellable???

 

Denys Gillam and 146 Wing ?

 

We've got a winner!

You're right, Martin, Denys 'Kill 'em' Gillam commanded 146 Wing on the raid on the Amsterdam SD offices on 26 november 1944. As stated, two groups of planes flew diversive sorties to Amsterdam Harbour and Schiphol airfield in order to draw the Flak away from the main force. The third group, led by Gillam, went straight for the SD office. Besides the building itself, several nearby houses were hit as well, resulting in the death of 56 civilians. The SD lost 4 men.

The Dutch underground requested this raid, in the hope the SD would be hit when they were on their lunch-break and kill as many of them as possible. The Dutch Government rep. in London that was to OK the raid did so when Gillam said it would be 'a piece of cake'. The rep. Ok'ed the mission but insisted that it would be conducted on a sunday.

The SD building became unusable and another building on the nearby Apollolaan was taken over by the SD.

I have been collecting data on this for a while, together with some other raids on Amsterdam.

I hope in the not too distant future to post some short stories on these raids here...

Over to you, Martin...Hit me!

 

Well, this was such hard work that I have made arrangements for the RAF Memorial Flight to borrow the RAF Museum's only surviving Typhoon for a special 59th Anniversary re-enactment. . Live rockets and ammunition have been located in an old hangar and an address to be attacked has been selected.
'Won't the owner mind ? ' said the RAF Museum.
'No,no' I reassured them,'The owner's name is Oudshoorn and he's a real WW2 buff - he'll love it !'



Next question comes when my headache over this one goes away....

 

Wow!

Typhoon day revisited...!!

 

Most Excellent!

Looks like I have got a date on 26 november!!!

I will have large identification panels out, pointing in the right direction. As I am not sure which address you mean, I have taken the freedom to inform the school that is now housed in that particular building. The students are wildly enthousiastic about this RAF Memorial Flight fly-by!!

I also informed my neighbours, yet they reacted with some reservation. Silly buggers. I told them this will be an experience of a lifetime!

oh, and to give the whole thing more authenticity I will, for the first time ever, get into re-enactment myself and wear my long leather overcoat, complete with hat!!!

 

Stevin

You'd better wear a helmet and start digging an Anderson shelter(very soon and very deep)

Popsss.

 

I know it's Martin Bull's turn, but is it allowed to ask an easy question, outside the contest, in between?

 

Popski,

For the benefit of my neighbours I have started digging an Anderson in the garden of the Orthodox Christian Bookstore below me...There are smoking us out with their incense anyway...I, for one, will be standing on the roof, waving frantically at the Typhoon...

It better show up, Martin!

Martin...?

MAAAAAARTIN!!!!!!!

What is this...???



[ 18. October 2003, 05:21 AM: Message edited by: Stevin Oudshoorn ]

 

Oh, KnightMove, I guess that's up to Martin, whether he wants to hands this round to you...

And Erich, I forgot to credit you with a VERY good try!!

 

Back to the Bulge for a quick question - on December 23rd 1944 and subsequently, what tactic did the US 9th Air Force use against the Panzer forces surrounding Bastogne ?

Clue : This could also easily appear in the 'Weapons' quiz....

PS We'll all try to answer your Q, Knightmove....ask away !

 

Thx Martin. OK:

Who was, regarding today's publicity of his family name, the most famous nazi?

 

I feel like someone answering a 'Knock, knock - who's there ?' joke...

Surely the most famous Nazi must be Hitler ??

 

So far the most "intelligent" answer to Martin´s question I found is:

The Allied Airforces cut off the fuel supply for the German Panzers...

And to KnightMove´s question a guess:

Rudolf Hess? ( Not sure whose name could be more famous that Hitler´s though..)

 

Nope... indeed there is a more famous name than Hitler's.

But indeed my question is a little unprecise: The person asked for was never a member of the NSDAP; but he was a SS officer.

[ 18. October 2003, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: KnightMove ]

 

Jochen Peiper...?? Just a wild guess...as he was SS and to my knowledge not a party member.

Kurt Meyer would have been another possiblity but he was NSDAP member.