WWII Forums Quiz Part VII

OK, geography lesson....

What was the real name for "the Slot", and the area East of Savo ?

 

Yep
and Sealark Channel, (East of Savo)...close enough, yer go

 

German guards who were killed by the prisoners (inmates/people) of the camp, who were given guns by the liberating Americans to either shoot them or beat them to death.
Perhaps not the last burned (in the same pile), but the last killed and then burned.

A Horrific place. No good came of it at any time.

 

....The last bodies to be burned in these ovens were those of the Nazi war criminals who were condemned to death at the Nuremberg trial, including top Nazi Hermann Göring who committed suicide before he could be executed. According to Robert E. Conot in his book "Justice at Nuremberg," their ashes were scattered in a stream outside the city of Munich, the birthplace of the Nazi movement.
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from here

-whatever

-Lou

 

Sounds good to me, or so they say. Weren't they all necked? Hopefully they didn't burn up all that valuable Nazi regalia. Naw, them boys took all that stuff home, or traded it for a beer.

 

What aircraft carrier was nicknamed 'The Blue Ghost'..... and why?

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-Lou

 

ahem!.... and why?...

 

They have the carrier bathed in blue flood lights at Corpus Christi and it looks really cool at night.

Not the reason for the name but I am sure our esteemed and learned and wonderful modulator will guess the answer later or sooner !

 

Also she was painted dark blue like the USS Texas is painted now.

TPWD: Battleship TEXAS State Historic Site. - History

scrool to bottom for dark blue

 

Nope!

Nope!

Nope!

CV-16 was the only carrier not painted in camouflage colors.

Your go, Jeff.

-whatever

-Lou

EDIT: Actually, I just checked Wiki, and they say that lack of camouflage was 'part' of the reason for the nickname.... so, Jeff's answers are likely correct, too.

I'm gonna have to draw the line at 'Caspar' and the 'blue light' thing, though.... that's a bit of a stretch, and, after all...



... it is MY question!

-w/e
-L

 

a quick guess here....


.... less bomb damage?

-whatever

-Lou

 

Because they had the only operating brewery left in Germany???

No, no.....wait! Wiki gives the following reasons:

• It was located in the American occupation zone
• The Nuremberg Palace of Justice was spacious and largely undamaged (one of the few that had remained largely intact through extensive Allied bombing of Germany). A large prison was also part of the complex.
• The city had been the location of the Nazi party's Nuremberg rallies, there was symbolic value in making it the place of the Nazi demise.
• As a compromise it was agreed that Berlin would become the permanent seat of the International Military Tribunal and that the first trial (several were planned) would take place in Nuremberg.

Because of the Cold War, there were no subsequent trials. ​

Yeah, I'll go with that....the Palace of Justice one.

hmmmmmm??????

-whatever

-Lou