The official AHF other eras quiz thread

[K.Kocjancic]

Mannerheim and Rommel

...and I thougt this would be a hard one...
Kocjo, correct and your turn again

I just read one of your old posts here.


An easy one:
How much time lasted first combat flight in air-plane?

[Lord Gort]

20 minutes?


I am just guessing as the men of the Royal flying core in ww1 were called the twenty minuters.



regards,

[K.Kocjancic]

Lord Gort, we meet again.

No, more.

It happend during Italian-Turkish war 1911-12.

[K.Kocjancic]

OK, another hint:
It was done by Cpt. Carlos Piazza.

[Scott Smith]

OK, another hint:
It was done by Cpt. Carlos Piazza.

Sixty-one minutes.

[K.Kocjancic]

OK, another hint:
It was done by Cpt. Carlos Piazza.

Sixty-one minutes.

Correct!

1 hour and 1 minute.

Your turn!

[Scott Smith]

Okay!

What was the five o'clock pigeon?

[K.Kocjancic]

I found some data on this "thing", but is not military related.

Any hints?

[Scott Smith]

World War I. Yes it is military related.


Another hint: Aviation.

Okay, yet another hint: Dove.

This practically gives it away.


And here is another hint: Taube.

Does anybody know what the Five O'Clock Taube/Pigeon/Dove was?

[Korbius]

Two Germans, a pilot (Von Hiddessen) and his observer flew for the first time to Paris and dropped a few bombs along with some messages. with each bomb came a weighted message attached to a 7-foot banner in German colors. The pilot's message:

The German Army stands before the gates of Paris. You have no choice but to surrender.

P.S. That model image of the The Rumpler type 4C Taube gave it all away

[Scott Smith]

Two Germans, a pilot (Von Hiddessen) and his observer flew for the first time to Paris and dropped a few bombs along with some messages. with each bomb came a weighted message attached to a 7-foot banner in German colors. The pilot's message:

The German Army stands before the gates of Paris. You have no choice but to surrender.

P.S. That model image of the The Rumpler type 4C Taube gave it all away

Very good! When that didn't win the war a few bombs or grenades were dropped every day. Sometimes the flights of the pigeon caused death or injury but mostly "the five o'clock pigeon" became a joke, with sightseers in 1914 Paris having picnics waiting for its timely arrival.

The theme of the "five o'clock pigeon" has been extensively borrowed, for example on M*A*S*H* and Bah Bah Black Sheep as "Five O'clock Charlie" or something similar.

Your turn!

Five O'clock Charlie - Inept North Korean pilot equipped with a WWII-era piston-engine aircraft who frequently tried to bomb the ammo dump near the 4077th and strafe or drop leaflets on the medical personnel of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital everyday at 5’O’Clock on the military comedy M*A*S*H/CBS/1972-83. Five O'clock Charlie appeared on episode No. 26 "Five O'clock Charlie" broadcast 9/22/1973. Like many of the North Korean Pilots, he was inexperienced (compared to the US Forces) and luckily, Charlie never seriously wounded anyone but his bombs were getting closer and closer. The pilot was so inexperienced that the personnel at M*A*S*H made a hobby of placing bets on when he might actually hit the ammunitions dump.

http://www.tvacres.com/aircraft_military_five.htm

[Korbius]

Charlie never seriously wounded anyone but his bombs were getting closer and closer. The pilot was so inexperienced that the personnel at M*A*S*H made a hobby of placing bets on when he might actually hit the ammunitions dump.

This part is real funny

but anyways, the next question is:

What was the most read newspaper in the north and also in the south during the Civil War in U.S.

[David C. Clarke]

Harper's Gazette?

Cheers,
~D

[Korbius]

Harper's Gazette?

Nope, but there is one for the north and another one for the south.

Hint: they both are named after heavy populated cities.

[CHRISCHA]

New York Times or Washington Gazette?