WWII Forums Quiz Part V

I know the answer as i used it to explain what the MARINES, in particular, and the Army, and Aussies were up against in the Pacific. They had just shown a TV documentary called "Tarawa, MARINE victory or MARINE Debacle?" My wife asked me if the outfit I respect most was just a mistake. After the man gave in,a few months later, I asked my wife, this question, " How would you like to have been a 17 year old MARINE, raised in a Judeo-Christian environment, who met that jap Lt while all his juices were flowing properly? --And how would you explain a string of total victories, albeit with horrible casualty lists, against such people?" I will let someone else claim the prize. I have already used the Lt. to win an argument at home. Semper Fi

 

G'day

Was it by getting his brother to talk him out??

Banzai

 

Texas Fred
Well said, the fact that this guy surrendered so long after the war shows not only the tenacity of he and hi countrymen, it demonstrates the ability of those men that defeated men of such fanatical resolve.

Popski
Sorry no dice, although they did have family members try to convince him to surrender, he refused those pleas.

 

Another try Monty

The Japenese Goverment located his commanding officer who than ordered his to surrender.

Nippon Banzai

 

I think Popski got the right answer.
But... to be exact Onoda himself told to a Japanese tourist Norio Suzuki, whom he met at the jungle, that an order from his superior ( Onoda gave the name Maj. Taniguchi) would be needed to have him surrendered.

Tenno heika banzai, Juha

 

Popski, you nailed it on the second try, over to you.

[ 04. October 2003, 08:49 PM: Message edited by: Monty Cassino ]

 

G'day

I like the answer Juha gave better, so over to Juha.

Ippon Juha

Popski

 

Popski,

As you answered correct first, over to you.

Regards, Juha

 

Well then

Where (what town) did Fairbairn and Sykes get the idea to develop their combat knife??

Pop

 

This is a two-edged ( ho ho ! ) answer.

The idea for the knife originated in Shanghai where both men served with the Shanghai Municipal Police Force in the '30s. But the 'official' design was put forward whilst both were serving as instructors at the Commando Basic Training Centre at Achnacarry, Scotland ( but you couldn't really classify Achnacarry as a town...)

 

Indeed Martin

The town I was looking for was Shanghai. So
ovel to Maltin

Popski

 

Thanks, Popski !

A topical 'Bulge' question - which two high-ranking US officers went on to distinguished post-war military careers but, reputedly, never spoke to each other again following a 'discussion' during the Ardennes offensive ?

 

Hmmm - not many takers for this one...

Here's a giveaway clue...one was a Paratrooper, the other a Tanker.....

 

I know Patton wasn't one of them. He didn't have much of a career after the war.

[ 07. October 2003, 06:34 PM: Message edited by: Monty Cassino ]

 

Very vaguely the story appears in the mists of my memory.

I believe to have remembered that Ridgeway was the paratrooper.....yet again, another name springs to mind because it surprised me that he got in such a fight and never spoke to that person again. That seemed out of character. That was not Ridgeway.

I say Ridgeway and....hmmm...tanker....Bradley....

 

Almost there, Stevin, keep going....another clue ; last Saturday morning I was drinking coffee in the building where this conversation took place !

 

The paratrooper may be McAuliffe and I'd say that the tanker is Patton...

 

No, Stevin is halfway there with Ridgeway - come on guys, the answer should come as a bolt from the blue....

 

A bolt from the blue (or a "SWAG"):
Creighton Abrams

 

No, no - maybe I should have said a bolt into the blue....