The official AHF Poland quiz thread

[AVV]

Good evening!

Most probably, because it's the only picture out there and nobody knows for sure whether it's a prototype, a mockup or a small-scale model.

Well, in any case you are right. Photo source: http://community.livejournal.com/shushp ... u/tag/1937
Over to you!

Best regards, Aleks

[Halibutt]

Not sure if it hasn't been mentioned before, but what the heck. Since we're speaking armoured vehicles, what was the Polish invention used by almost all WWII tanks of all sides of the conflict, from Crusader and Churchill to T-34, from Sherman to Panther and Fiat?
Cheers

[Musashi]

Not sure if it hasn't been mentioned before, but what the heck. Since we're speaking armoured vehicles, what was the Polish invention used by almost all WWII tanks of all sides of the conflict, from Crusader and Churchill to T-34, from Sherman to Panther and Fiat?
Cheers

I think it might be a periscope or some observation device.

[Halibutt]

Ok, since no one gave a better answer we'd have to settle for Musashi's. Indeed, it was Gundlach's tank periscope, used in Polish tanks, then given to the Brits, then copied by all the other armies of the world. The first tank observation device that allowed the driver/commander to have 360 degree view without leaving the tank.

Your turn Musashi
Cheers

[Musashi]

Let somebody else ask a question. It's time when I work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and I don't have enough time to think about sensible questions.

[Mischa]

Let somebody else ask a question. It's time when I work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and I don't have enough time to think about sensible questions.

Hi,

here has been about half a year done anything! I try that quiz a little to resuscitate.

One German U-Boot come after the surrender to a British base (May 1945). On the bridge, the commander and in the background, a Polish sailor.

My question: In what base come that boat, what is the name of the commander and the sailor, of course. If someone could still identify other people, then it would be great.

Greetings
Mischa

[Polar bear]

hello, Mischa,

it´s U 249, CO Oblt.z.S. Kock, at Portland on May 10, 1945, see here http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-249PhotosPortland.htm

recognizable by the painted "Mosquito"-kill sign (Mosquito 235/Q shot down on March 24, 1945)

the name of the Polish sailor I do not know ...

greetings,the pb

[Mischa]

Hallo Polarbär!

Perfekt! You turn!

The Polish soldier is sailor (Leon Bluszcz, who spoke with the commander and an American asked him afterwards what he with the German was spoken. He answered, the German asked me, am I Russian? My answer was no, I`m a Polish sailor*).

Greetings
Micha

*) Source Jerzy Pertek "The great days of the small fleet," 10 Edition, Poznań 1987

[Polar bear]

thanks, Mischa,

let´s stay with the navy ...

the 3 Polish destroyers which escaped to the UK in 1939 were listed by the Kriegsmarine´s Naval Fleet´s handbook later not with their true names, but ... ?

greetings, the pb

[AVV]

Hello!
Did it have something to do with the codename of the operation - Peking?

Best regards, Aleks

[Mischa]

Hello Polar bear,

von Polar bear am 03 Feb 2011 22:21

yes, in the Weyer stand: vereinnahmt von England nach Flucht aus Polen = collected from England after her escape from Poland

Thunderbold (ex Grom) page 32
Lightning (ex Błyskawica) page 32
Burza (ex Storm) the index of names shown her on page 36, but she is not there! In Weyers 1941-1942 are the names good, competent and Polish

Hello!
Did it have something to do with the codename of the operation - Peking?

Best regards, Aleks

here a picture

[Polar bear]

hello, Mischa,

Thunderbold (ex Grom) page 32
Lightning (ex Błyskawica) page 32
Burza (ex Storm) the index of names shown her on page 36, but she is not there!

yes, fast and correct ...

and ... yes, she is there ... in the centre of page 36 ... as SQUALL (at least, in my reprint edition)

Greetings, the pb

[Mischa]

hello, Mischa,

Thunderbold (ex Grom) page 32
Lightning (ex Błyskawica) page 32
Burza (ex Storm) the index of names shown her on page 36, but she is not there!

yes, fast and correct ...

and ... yes, she is there ... in the centre of page 36 ... as SQUALL (at least, in my reprint edition)

Greetings, the pb

Thank You,

let`s continue the navy - questions

what ship? Conetcted for a short time to the Polish Navy?

[Halibutt]

what ship? Conetcted for a short time to the Polish Navy?

Looks like some French large destroyer. OF Ouragan?
Cheers

[Mischa]

what ship? Conetcted for a short time to the Polish Navy?

Looks like some French large destroyer. OF Ouragan?
Cheers

Yes, You are right - http://www.polishnavy.pl/PMW/ships/dest ... index.html
and it is You turn
Regards
Mischa