Thread: History Quiz

Okay, I've been gone all day, whose turn? I think it's Blues.

Okay, two-part:

1) Most air-to-air kills by a single aircrew in a single day, and
2) most air-to-air kills by a single aircrew on a single mission.

Originally Posted by Bluesman

Okay, two-part:

1) Most air-to-air kills by a single aircrew in a single day, and

Emil Bully Lang 18 vs the VVS 3 Nov 43

2) most air-to-air kills by a single aircrew on a single mission.

Erich Rudorffer 13(14) VS THE VVS 11 oct 43

Where did George Herbet Walker Bush future president of the USA and father of the president of the USA first see enemy action?

Originally Posted by zraver

Where did George Herbet Walker Bush future president of the USA and father of the president of the USA first see enemy action?

Dunno, but the last time was the day Bill Clinton was inaugurated.

Originally Posted by zraver

Where did George Herbet Walker Bush future president of the USA and father of the president of the USA first see enemy action?

Wake Island in 1944 ?

Originally Posted by zraver

Where did George Herbet Walker Bush future president of the USA and father of the president of the USA first see enemy action?

July 25th 1944 sank a cargo ship off Palau.

Wake Island, your question Julie.

BTW Wake Island was also the last place the famed aviator Charles Lindberg saw combat.

What was the worst marine disaster in U.S. history?

Wilhelm Gustloff - german ship that was carrying mostly civilian refugees and sunk in the Baltic Sea.

Originally Posted by Southie

Wilhelm Gustloff - german ship that was carrying mostly civilian refugees and sunk in the Baltic Sea.

uh...I'm showing something else. What year is that incident you are referred to?

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I've just read about the incident you posted, and yours is a heck of alot more disasterous than mine. (Loss of 9,400 people)

I was after the incident where at least 1,547 people were killed when the boiler of the sidewheeler Sultana exploded on April 27, 1865, on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee. Many of those killed in the blast where Union soldiers who had recently been freed from Confederate prison camps. The most unusual survival story was that of a man who used a knife to kill a live alligator that was in a wooden crate on board, then used the crate to float away.

I think mine is within the boundary of US American history.

Your answer deserves recognition.

Your turn Southie.

OK, what was the name of the plane that dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki?

Originally Posted by Southie

OK, what was the name of the plane that dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki?

Bockscar?

Correct!