Exam #2

Question 1

British submariner during WW1 and commander in chief of the western approaches in the later half of WW2. He was responsible for British participation in the battle of the Atlantic.

Answer 1

Max Horton

Question 2

“Hap” was an American General officer holding the grades of general of the army and general of the Air Force

Answer 2

H. H. Arnold or Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold

Question 3

A fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the Pacific Ocean areas, commanding allied air, land, and sea forces during WW2

Answer 3

Chester Nimitz

Question 4

An American aviation pioneer. A reserve officer in the United States Army air corps. He was recalled to active during WW2.

Answer 4

James Doolittle

Question 5

United States Army general who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force. He serves in France during WW1 and by the conflicts end, commanded all American Air combat units in that country.

Answer 5

William “Billy” Mitchell

Question 6

Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Knows as “bomber”

Answer 6

Arthur Harris

Question 7

French hero of WW2. A French general who was captured in both world wars but escaped both times. After his second escape in 1942, some of the Vichy ministers tried to send him back to Germany and probable execution

Answer 7

Henri Giraud

Question 8

Nicknamed “Monty” and “the spartan general” He was a senior British army officer who fought in both WW1 and WW2

Answer 8

Bernard Montgomery

Question 9

Italian general during WW1 and WW2. He was prime minister of Italy

Answer 9

Pietro Badoglio

Question 10

German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of WW2. Briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as the head of state of Nazi Germany

Answer 10

Karl Dönitz

Question 11

German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox. He served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazie Germany during WW2. He was awarded the Pour Le Mérte for his actions on the Italian front

Answer 11

Erwin Rommel

Question 12

An admiral in the United States Navy. Was the commander of the United States pacific fleet

Answer 12

Husband E. Kimmel

Question 13

A Japanese marshal admiral of the navy and the commander in chief of the combined fleet during WW2 until his death. He helped several important posts in the imperial Japanese navy and undertook many of its changed and reorganization’s. Especially its development of the naval aviation. Also planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Answer 13

Isoroku Yamamoto

Question 14

A place southwest of Rome. This place was asked by Napoleons troops in 1979. Where the battle of Monte Cassino took place.

Answer 14

Monte Cassino

Question 15

A city and commune on the coast of the lazuli region of Italy. It is the fishing port and a departure point for ferries and hydro-planes to the pointine island of Panza, Palmarola and ventotene

Answer 15

Anzio

Question 16

Division naval battle in the pacific theater of WW2. Only 6 months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea

Answer 16

Battle of Midway

Question 17

The largest confrontation of WW2. In which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of the Stalingrad in Southern Russia

Answer 17

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 18

An Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa, during the North African campaign of WW2. Torch was the debut of the mass involvement of U.S. troops in the European-North African theatre

Answer 18

Operation torch

Question 19

The code name for the axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday June 22, 1941 during WW2

Answer 19

Operation Barbarossa

Question 20

A system for the detection of objects under water and for measuring the waters dearth by emitting sound pulses and detecting or measuring their return after being reflected.

Answer 20

SONAR (sonar navigation and ranging)

Question 21

The process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field

Answer 21

Degaussing

Question 22

A fishing port on the Norway coast of northern France

Answer 22

Dieppe

Question 23

Flying bomb also known to the allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug

Answer 23

V-1

Question 24

Worlds first long-range guided ballistic missile powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine

Answer 24

V-2

Question 25

The winter line was a series of German and Italian military fortifications in Italy, constructed during WW2

Answer 25

Gustav Line

Question 26

A long-range fighter aircraft formerly manufactured by Mitsubishi Aircraft company (superior to all other aircrafts)

Answer 26

Zero

Question 27

The Messerschmitt, nicknames Schwalbe in fighter versions or saturmvogel in fighter-bomber versions. The worlds first operational jet-powered fighter

Answer 27

Me-262

Question 28

Held at the anfa hotel in Casablanca, French morocco. Plan the allies European strategy for the next phase of WW2 including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Answer 28

Casablanca Conference

Question 29

Refers to the mass-attack tactics against convoys used by German U-Boats of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic

Answer 29

Wolfpacks

Question 30

British code name for a plan to make the Germans think they weren’t going to Sicily

Answer 30

Mincemeat