So far so good Ave...

I read that Charley Fox is credited with shooting Erwin Rommel's staff car on July 17th 1944 (albeit unknown to Charley Fox at the time) and he was part of the 412th squadron.
Regards,
Robert

The name of the squadron leader was Cris Le Roux.
Heres an easy tip:They were donated by the Fellowship of the Bellows

Antonio, what about Charley Fox being credited with shooting his staff car, was Rommel injured on 2 seperate occasions

Charley did hit the car!But I believe Cris hit it too.
I´ll give the answer, because I was searching on google and did not find it!(I saw it on a brazilian magazine)
The Fellowship of Bellows was an organization that existed in Latin America.They made contributions to the RAF,donating money to buy Spitfires.Some of the Spits donated were in the atack of Rommel´s staff car, on 17th of July.The names were "O Bandeirante" and "Guarani".
Next guy makes the question!

The surrender of the Cherbourg garrison was important for many reasons, one being the allies had lost the Mullberry artifical harbor in the great storm of June 19-21 and were now able to utilize the port. Who was the German commander of the Cherbourg garrison and on what date did he surrender his troops?
Regards,
Robert

General von Schlieben was the overall cammader of the Cherbourg Fortress. He himself was captured on 26/06/44 but the remaining garrison did not surrender untill 30/06/44. If memory serves
cheers,
Bryan

Nice job Bryan, next time I will make sure you are on vacation or something before I ask the question
Best Regards,
Robert

Hey bryan its your turn to post a question.

I'd like to make a couple of suggestions. I'm on another site, http://www.historic-battles.com/forum/index.php that has similar quizzes to this. It's a lot of fun. They have some "rules" set up that help everything go smoothly. Of course these are just suggestions.

One is to have a deadline before the person who asked the question answers it. Over there it's 3 days. If I ask a question that nobody can answer in 3 days I answer it and post another.

Another is that the person who asked the question gets to confirm the answer before the next person asks one. So if I ask a question, and Jim answers it, I confirm that he's right before Jim asks his. It's just to make sure it's the right answer.

Finally if somebody doesn't post a new question within 24 hours then anybody else can throw out another. So if I answer a question, and it's confirmed, then if I don't ask a new question in 24 hours then anybody else can put one out.

These "rules" can keep the ball rolling a bit better and don't take much away from the fun.

Should we see if we can have a "gentleman's agreement" on these rules?

I don't know about being a gentlemen or anything but those rules sound fine to me.

Shaun

Its OK to me!

Sounds good to me ..next question please!

Next question.
What was the name of the defensive position used by the FInnish forces during the winter war of 1940 and how many Russian soldiers died assaulting it.
GOOD LUCK.
cheers,
Bryan

Was it the Mannerheim line or "Enckell" line, don't know the casualties on the Russian side but they were high, can't find a count.
Regards,
Robert

You got it. it was the Mannerheim line. The Russian's lost well over 200 000 troops . Good job.
Batter up
Cheers,
Bryan

Thanks Bryan,

Ok what was the operational name of the first ever American helicopter deployment in combat, the date and which branch of service was involved.
Regards,
Robert

hint: grumpyoldman

The Army used a Sikorsky R-4 in the Pacific Theatre in a combat evac mid 1944. I believe it was May or June, exact date escapes me, and they had to hack an LZ out of the side of a hill. Izzat IT?

Me thinkth it was the Navy in 1943 aboard the Bunker Hill. HNS1
which I believe was actually made up of Navy and coast guard personel.

Well actually you could both be right I guess, however my book states it was Operation Summit on Sept 21, 1951. It was 228 Marines aboard S-55's. I thought perhaps my hint of grumpyoldman might help since his banner is Remember Korea. My guess is that Operation Summit was perhaps the first large scale combat helicopter deployment. So Robert or Dave the torch passes to whichever one of you reads this first.
Best Regards,
Robert
p.s. grumpyoldman I did remember Korea

I will yield you Robert..... since I'm basicly brain dead today in the question department....... LOL

Ola People

All the questions before were quite hard for me (absolute lack of knowledge) but since the next question is for the one who comes first with it I want to throw in a question:

Jimmy Edwards, the great british comedian, was a Flight Lieutenant during the war. He flew several missions during Market Garden of wich were Parachute drops but also supply drops. eventually his plane was shot down above Holland. The question is:
What was the Name of the Dakota he flew in and in wich he was shot down.

Was it the "Professor"
Robert

Ola




Nope it was not the professor.
The name is longer then that.

Tjirp Tjirp

Hhhmmm And silent it went. Giving this post a kick........

And selling a Hint. It was not only the Planes nick but also from the man who flew it.