Exam #2 Flashcards
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.
Max Horton
“Hap” was an American General officer holding the grades of general of the army and general of the Air Force
H. H. Arnold or Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold
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
Chester Nimitz
An American aviation pioneer. A reserve officer in the United States Army air corps. He was recalled to active during WW2.
James Doolittle
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.
William “Billy” Mitchell
Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Knows as “bomber”
Arthur Harris
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
Henri Giraud
Nicknamed “Monty” and “the spartan general” He was a senior British army officer who fought in both WW1 and WW2
Bernard Montgomery
Italian general during WW1 and WW2. He was prime minister of Italy
Pietro Badoglio
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
Karl Dönitz
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
Erwin Rommel
An admiral in the United States Navy. Was the commander of the United States pacific fleet
Husband E. Kimmel
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.
Isoroku Yamamoto
A place southwest of Rome. This place was asked by Napoleons troops in 1979. Where the battle of Monte Cassino took place.
Monte Cassino
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
Anzio
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
Battle of Midway
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
Battle of Stalingrad
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
Operation torch
The code name for the axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday June 22, 1941 during WW2
Operation Barbarossa
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.
SONAR (sonar navigation and ranging)
The process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field
Degaussing
A fishing port on the Norway coast of northern France
Dieppe
Flying bomb also known to the allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug
V-1
Worlds first long-range guided ballistic missile powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine
V-2
The winter line was a series of German and Italian military fortifications in Italy, constructed during WW2
Gustav Line
A long-range fighter aircraft formerly manufactured by Mitsubishi Aircraft company (superior to all other aircrafts)
Zero
The Messerschmitt, nicknames Schwalbe in fighter versions or saturmvogel in fighter-bomber versions. The worlds first operational jet-powered fighter
Me-262
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
Casablanca Conference
Refers to the mass-attack tactics against convoys used by German U-Boats of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic
Wolfpacks
British code name for a plan to make the Germans think they weren’t going to Sicily
Mincemeat
