The official AHF WW2 Western Europe quiz thread

[Polar bear]

hi,

on a lake in Western France, a few very fast British birds killed a few very large German birds ...

What happenend, where and when ?

greetings, the pb

[Polar bear]

hi,

hint #1 : The Summer of '43 was about to begin ...

greetings, the pb

[Attrition]

Any Westland Whirlwinds involved?

[Polar bear]

hi,

No .. AFAIK you have to add "1" to a Whirlwind squadron number to arrive at the number of the squadron which did the deed.

greetings, the pb

[Rob Stuart]

I would guess that this relates to a RAF attack on Bordeaux-Merignac which destroyed a number of FW-200 and/or HE-177 of KG40.

[Attrition]

Mosquitos?

[Polar bear]

hi,

I a RAF attack on Bordeaux-Merignac

No ... on a LAKE is what I wrote and what I meant ... in SW France

And no, not Mosquitoes

greetings, the pb

[Rob Stuart]

So the "very large German birds" were flying boats?

[Attrition]

The V3 (initially DM+SD) first flew on 28 November 1941, and was transferred to LTS 222 on 9 December 1941 After V1's sinking, V3 returned to Hamburg where she was armed. She was destroyed along with V5 on 20 June 1943 at Biscarrosse by RAF de Havilland Mosquitos of No. 264 Squadron RAF.[4]

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[Polar bear]

hi,

correct, that's right and that's the solution !

Although my information tells me that the attack was made by Beaufighters of 264 Sq. , thus I'm not quite sure what's right

greetings, the pb

[Rob Stuart]

pb and attrition,

"V3" indicates the third prototype of a new aircraft but neither of you have given the aircraft type. Could you please say what aircraft you're talking about?

Thanks,

Rob

[Polar bear]

hi, Rob,

I'm sorry to have missed that, it's the Bv 222 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blohm_%26_Voss_BV_222

greetings, the pb

[Rob Stuart]

Hey, no problem. Thanks very much.

Rob

[Polar bear]

hi,

Sorry, yet another miss ... attrition, it's your turn, again.

greetings, the pb

[Attrition]

Sorry but I don't have the imagination to think of a question.