The official AHF Inter-War quiz thread

[Juha Tompuri]

Ok, name three types of aircraft used by the Soviets during "The Nomonhan incident".

Fighters, bombers, reconnaissance...or nooo...Polikarpov I-15(bis), I-153, I-16 would be my guess.

Regards, Juha

[Zygmunt]

Fighters, bombers, reconnaissance...

Ohhh, we are in good form today aren't we?
Anyhow, I-16, sure. Now, I was given to understand that the main difference between the I-15 (bis) and the I-153 is the undercarriage, and in view of that I'd kinda been thinking of them as not massively seperate. As such, I was thinking of "SB-2" as an obvious third type. But I'll accept I-15(bis) and I-153.

If you really want to show off, you could expose my ignorance by explaining all the ways the I-153 differed from the I-15(bis)

Zygmunt (handing the thread to Juha)

[Juha Tompuri]

Zyg,

the main "external" differences between I-15 bis and I-153 AFAIK are, as you mentioned, in the undercarriage, but also in the upper wing: the I-15bis has a straight one compared to the "chaika" one in I-153 (and the I-15 basic model).
Weather the I-153 is "just" a sub-type of the I-15 family, or a type of it´s own is very much a matter of taste.
Which you seem to have a good one.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fbonne/warbirds/w ... lii15.html
http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/Geor ... battle.htm
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/WW2His ... istus.html

Regards, J(P)T

[Juha Tompuri]

It was also licence produced in Czechoslovakia.

regards, Juha

[Juha Tompuri]

This had the same nickname

[Juha Tompuri]

This is one of the early versions

[Juha Tompuri]

A WWII era pic about the plane in question

[Juha Tompuri]

It´s Tupolev SB 2 M-100(A) "Katyusha"
The fastest can post the next question.

Regards, Juha

[Zygmunt]

Sorry Juha, I should've kept checking in for the hints - if I'd been paying attention I'd probably have got it around Sunday-Monday.
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What was Spain's first aircraft carrier?

Where did aircraft from that ship first see action?

EDIT: Hint - it was converted from being a merchant ship, in 1922.

Zygmunt

[asiaticus]

"Dedalo" seaplane/airship carrier
converted from the merchant "Neuenfels"

http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/spain.htm

My guess is its aircraft saw action in the war against the Moors.

[Zygmunt]

Yep - and the name "Dedalo" is in use again today, as the ship Spain operates its "Matador" (Harrier) aircraft from.

Over to you asiaticus.

Zygmunt

[asiaticus]

What was the name of the final decisive battle of the Abyssinian Conquest on 31st of March, 1936?

[Acolyte]

31 March 1936 - Battle of Maychew

40,000 Ethiopian troops counter-attack the invading Italians. The operation fails since word of it leaks to the enemy.

[asiaticus]

Mai Ceu, same thing yes.

I would disagree as to the failure being for that reason though. It was pretty obvious what a battle was going to happen. Italy managed to turn the Galla tribesmen who attacked the Ethiopian flank at a critical moment when the Ethiopians were about to crack the Italian front line, held by the two experienced Eritrean Colonial Divsions. If that had happened the Italians might have lost the battle. The Blackshirt units in the second line were not very professional and proven brittle in previous battles. If their best units had fled thru them they may have broken too.

Your turn.

[Acolyte]

Mai Ceu, same thing yes.

I would disagree as to the failure being for that reason though.

Well, that was the reason they gave for the defeat on the website where I read about that particular battle. Anyway, thanks for the information.

My question:

During the short-lived Republic of Councils (21 Mar - 1 Aug 1919) numerous acts of armed resistance have taken place against the bolshevik rulers of Hungary who were eventually forced out of power by the Roumanian army. One attempt to liberate the Hungarian capital from the bolsheviks was undertaken by military academy cadets and three river gunboats.

The operation was suppressed ruthlessly and a bolshevik military court sentenced most participants to death. They were to be hanged in public. However, one Italian military officer who was the member of the entente delegation to Hungary monitoring the surrender of arms protested this violation of the Geneva Convention and bravely thwarted the execution.

For this act this man was revered as a hero in Hungary up until 1945. What was his name?