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12-09-2006, 02:48 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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 | An End of War Quiz - How did you go.
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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12-09-2006, 03:24 PM
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| WW2 Veteran  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer
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| Re: An End of War Quiz - How did you go. 7/11. Got the German questions 3-6 wrong plus 12. Never heard of the "Lost Division" - anyone know what happened to the chaps who deserted? |
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12-09-2006, 03:49 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bannockburn, Scotland
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| Re: An End of War Quiz - How did you go. Only 8 right....back to the books! 
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12-09-2006, 04:32 PM
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| Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Re: An End of War Quiz - How did you go. Quote:
This was the name given to the American soldiers who had deserted in France and in Germany at the end of 1945. They numbered around 19,000, many living on farms and working as labourers, as black market racketeers, or in safe hiding places in their new found girl friends houses. By 1948, about 9,000 had been found. In 1947, the British Covernment announced an offer of leniency for British deserters and 837 gave themselves up.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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12-09-2006, 05:56 PM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone
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| Re: An End of War Quiz - How did you go. I got 9/12. Back to the books again!!!
__________________ 52nd Airborne. Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. |
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12-09-2006, 07:28 PM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Re: An End of War Quiz - How did you go. 10/12. Not too bad could have been better though.
__________________  "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum |
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12-09-2006, 08:40 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ipswich
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| Re: An End of War Quiz - How did you go. 10 but 2 were pure guess work, might do the lottery now.
__________________ 51 highland www.keep-em-moving.com Là á Bhlàir's math na Càirdean (Friends are good in the day of battle) Na diobair caraid's a charraid (Forsake not a friend in the fray) Cuimhnichibh na suinn nach maireann . Mairidh an cliu beo gu brath. (In memory of the Heroes who are no more. May their Fame live on forever) |
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