Question of the Hour

[Spr.Earl]

Corect,
9/4/1917
For their actions at Vimy Ridge, Ellis Sifton of the 18th Battalion, Captain
Thain MacDowell of the 38th Battalion, and Private William Milne of the 16th
Battalion, C.E.F. earn the Victoria Cross.

 

[BernDawg]

Found this looking for the sub answer.  Action occured on The 11th of Oct 1942

Soviet submarine L-16 torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-25 approximately 500 miles west of Seattle. All 50 aboard were killed. L-16 left Petropavlovsk with L-15 to join the Northern Fleet on 26 September 1942. The two submarines intended to sail trough Dutch Harbor, San Francisco to the Panama Canal. The crew of L-15 witnessed the sinking

Could this be the sub in question?

 

[3rd Herd]

BernDawg
Come to the head of the class. Yes your answer is the correct one. It was one of two instances that nearly brought the Soviet Union into an early entry in the Pacific War against Japan,

 

[BernDawg]

Wow.  My turn eh?  I'm going to have to think of something pithy.  Wait out.

 

[BernDawg]

OK.  Probably an easy one for the regulars here but here goes.  What was the code name for the deception plan prior to operation Overlord?

 

[Art Johnson]

Just a comment on bugle calls they are sounded not blown, as in "Bugler Sound Officers Call".

 

[043]

OK.  Probably an easy one for the regulars here but here goes.  What was the code name for the deception plan prior to operation Overlord?

Operation Fortitude

 

[BernDawg]

Bravo! ;D

 

[043]

In keeping with the Normandy theme, who was in command of the US 1st Army Group?

 

[ackland]

General Patton

 

[043]

Operation Fortitude was the codename for the deception operations used by the Allied forces during World War II in connection with the Normandy landings. It was divided into Fortitude North, a threat to invade Norway, and Fortitude South, designed to induce the Germans to believe that the main invasionof France would occur in the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy. Fortitude South was one of the most successful deception operations of the war, and arguably the most important.

Both Fortitude North and Fortitude South were related to a wider deception plan called Operation Bodyguard.

Looks like I was incorrect..................

 

[redleafjumper]

Who was the allied commander of operation Overlord?

 

[043]

It consisted of American, British, Canadian, Polish, and Free French Armies under command of General Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (the choice of Eisenhower was officially made by President Roosevelt in December 1943, and agreed upon by the British).

 

[redleafjumper]

Eisenhower is correct.  Who commanded the Allied ground forces for the Normandy Landings?

 

[The Anti-Royal]

Montgomery was (to use today's terminology) the land component commander.

 

[geo]

(though George S Patton was spitting bullets at the thought of following Monty's orders)

 

[Danjanou]

(though George S Patton was spitting bullets at the thought of following Monty's orders)

Remember though Patton was actually the head of the "deception army" encamped around Dover. One of the reasons that the deception plan worked was the Germans naturally presumed that an aggresive commander such as George could ever be in charge of the "decoys."

 

[baboon6]

Who was the naval commander for the Normandy invasion and what significant naval operation had he commanded in 1940?

 

[armyvern]

Who was the naval commander for the Normandy invasion and what significant naval operation had he commanded in 1940?

Bertram Homes Ramsay, 1883-1945, was the Naval Commander in Chief of Operation Overlord. In June 1940 with the collapse of the Allied Northern Front in France he Commanded the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and Allied Forces from Dunkirk, an achievement for which he was knighted.

http://search.eb.com/dday/article-9344628

 

[3rd Herd]

British Admiral  Sir Bertram Ramsey who took command of Operation Dynamo. The effort to evacuate the BEF from the beaches of Dunkirk

Edit Source: Hibbert Christopher "Operation Dynamo" pg. 156