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Trivia
- Thread starter Scout333
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Aitrus
Member
Whoops, didn't mean to post another quiz while your was still on, Kona. I knew that wvango had it right, so I thought yours was done with. My bad.
konakathy
Well-known member
Oh, no worries. It's just a game.
Now on to your trivia question - I don't have an answer. I'd have to google that one. I don't speak Canuck.
Aitrus
Member
Oh, no worries. It's just a game.
Now on to your trivia question - I don't have an answer. I'd have to google that one. I don't speak Canuck.
I speak Canuck kinda well, eh. It's ok to google this one. Not many who aren't WWII buffs would know the answer.
konakathy
Well-known member
"The Battle of Dieppe in World War II was a test for the full-scale invasion of western Europe" and it also said it was a disaster for the Canadians, but gave no reason why.
Aitrus
Member
Dieppe was the first battle for the Canucks, and took place on 19 Aug 1942. The Allied forces included 5,000 men (mostly Canadian) including two sections of commandos, 30 tanks, and supported by 8 naval destroyers and RAF air superiority. The attack was aimed at the area in and around Dieppe, a town in northern France. It was a disaster for several reasons.
For starters, the beach was unkind to the Churchill tanks. The Churchill was known as a solid, reliable Infantry Tank. Heavy, lots of armor, a medium-bore gun, and not too fast so as to outpace walking infantry (top speed of 15mph). One of the main problems was that out of the 30 tanks involved in the raid's first wave, only 15 made it ashore, and all 15 were disabled by either enemy fire or the rounded shingle rocks on the beach. The rocks got into the tank treads and threw them off, which turned the tanks into pillboxes with limited ammo. To give you an idea of the kind of rocks, imagine the perfect "skipping rock" - flat, round, and about the size of your palm. Now imagine a beach that's waist-deep in the things.
The second thing that went wrong was that the intel on the German forces was woefully inadequate. This was the same intel that said that the beach would be a perfect landing site.
Lastly, the naval gun and RAF bombings that were supposed to soften up the enemy before the landings didn't do it's job - the guns were off-target and the RAF wasn't accurate or had nearly enough planes involved. Worse, the landing was supposed to have air superiority, but the RAF never pulled it off. The bombardments also happened 10 hours before the landings, which gave the defenders plenty of time to recover.
In the end, of the 5,000 men that were sent in, 3,367 men were either dead or prisoners. The first landings happened at 0700, and the battle was over by 1230.
The reason this battle was important was because the lessons learned from this battle were the keystones in planning the D-Day landings (even though they weren't initially meant as such). The Dieppe raid was the first tentative try on the part of the Allies to establish the possibility of invading Europe following a beach landing. Everything about the Dieppe raid was theoretical - nothing like it had been tried on a large scale before. For D-Day, the beach conditions and present enemy were better researched, the bombing campaign was better timed and executed, and air superiority was gained and maintained, as well as a hundred other nuances.
Dieppe was a battle that we lost, but it's a battle we needed to lose so we could learn from it in order to win a bigger, more important one.
burrocrat
Well-known member
i have one of those in my current '90 ford stump jumper/creek crawler/shaggin wagon. sometimes it doesn't work, must have a short somewhere. but it makes me feel a whole lot better repeatedly stomping on it while barreling down a dark two track trail early on a moonlit morning heading home.
Yep! Sure do. Like burro said it always got stuck at the wrong time.
konakathy
Well-known member
40 squaresBump. Hello TSP'rs, Thought we might restore an old favorite. For new members, whoever gets the correct trivia answer gets to post the next trivia question, etc. I happen to like history but we're pretty flexible. Winner gets to choose question and category.
Who was the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
Who was the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
rcknfrewld
Active member
finally...I have been waiting for Aitrus's question since last September...but this question will do
DreamboatAnnie
Well-known member
Edward Rutledge..age 26. But 3 months younger than Thomas Lynch who was also 26.
DreamboatAnnie
Well-known member
Am I supposed to wait for response? Just checking...
Whoever posts the question decides if the response is correct.
DreamboatAnnie
Well-known member
What killed half of the U.S. Soldiers in Europe during World War I?
PessOptimist
Well-known member
Influenza
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