The official AHF WW2 Western Europe quiz thread

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Re: The official AHF WW2 Western Europe quiz thread

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Post by Ironmachine » 07 Apr 2014, 13:54

Maybe it was Stalag VI-C? 1,721 (I have seen slightly different numbers) POWs liberated, all of them females (plus some babies :) )?

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Post by Kingfish » 09 Apr 2014, 11:01

Ironmachine nails it

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Re: The official AHF WW2 Western Europe quiz thread

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Post by Ironmachine » 10 Apr 2014, 08:05

Thanks.
Which incident is commemorated by this memorial?
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Post by AVV » 10 Apr 2014, 09:56

Hello!
Monument to victims of Battle of Lyme Bay where German Schnellboots sunk American landing ships LST-507 and 531, and damaged LST-289 on April 28, 1944.

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Post by Ironmachine » 10 Apr 2014, 12:57

Correct.
Over to you.
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Post by AVV » 10 Apr 2014, 15:26

Thanks!
Who is this man?

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Re: The official AHF WW2 Western Europe quiz thread

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Post by Rob Stuart » 20 Apr 2014, 18:43

Roald Dahl?

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Post by AVV » 22 Apr 2014, 11:21

Sorry, no.
A foreigner serving in RAF.

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Post by Sgt. Seltin » 03 Oct 2014, 05:21

Hmm, the quiz seems to have come to a grinding halt, not unlike Operation Typhoon...

Maybe a hint as to his nationality or an engagement in which he could have been involved?

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Re: The official AHF WW2 Western Europe quiz thread

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Post by Attrition » 26 Jan 2015, 19:26

Pierre* Joubelin?

*Andre I mean....

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Post by Graham Clayton » 27 Apr 2015, 06:08

Aleks,

Could you give the answer to your question?

I'll post a new question - when Adolf Hitler visited Paris in June 1940, he ordered two monuments in the city to be destroyed. Who were the individuals commemorated on these monuments?
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Post by Attrition » 27 Apr 2015, 09:38

Marx and Engels?

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Post by Graham Clayton » 23 May 2015, 09:09

Attrition,

Not Marx and Engels. The two people who were the subjects of the statues served in WW1.
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Post by Polar bear » 24 May 2015, 21:08

hi,

General Charles Mangin, Commander of colonial troops (with statues of coloured men among those surrounding his memorial) and nurse Edith Cavell, executed as a spy by the Germans.

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Re: The official AHF WW2 Western Europe quiz thread

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Post by Graham Clayton » 25 May 2015, 00:55

Polar Bear,

Correct - your turn to ask a question.
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