2nd pop quiz:

1. How much of Bloekes Dicta can you remember without looking it up?
2. What were the names of the two allied ships sunk at the Battle of the Sunda Strait?
3. Which US president first sent military personnel to Vietnam?
4. Who was Custers 2nd in command at the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
5. What Union civil war General lost a leg at Gettysburg
Bonus: What did he do with it?
History Sensei bonus: What was he most known for before the civil war?

1. Well, that wholly depends on the situation
2. Houston and Perth
3. I think Truman in 1950, no?
4. Marcus Reno, I think
5. No ideas

I don't want to give the answers away before other people have a chance to peruse the questions but I'm curious, what do you mean by this?

You left off the cave man era too ... Some of those rock and spear throwing stories would be great, but I don't think they knew how to write yet. :)

Did you hear about the tribe of people somewhere north of present day Greece and Turkey around 500 bc ... that if the king died everyone died with him. Yes its true ...

They would place him in his chariot along with all of his treasure including wives and children followed by the rest of the village men and women all slain, even the horses and then bury the whole mess of them.

I don't know what happened to the men that did all of the dirty work, but this must be where the saying, "Long live the King" came from.

I chose the cold war, because I lived it. :yep:

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3. I think Truman in 1950, no?

No, it was Dwight Eisenhower

Nope you're both wrong. :DL

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Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dwight D. Eisenhower had been a favorite of the New Dealers during the war, ... Eisenhower dispatched the first American soldiers to Vietnam as military ...

Wrong?

Well, I do tend to remember different parts of the Dicta Boelcke depending on the situation, mostly while playing flight sims

EDIT: Wait a minute, what the hell is Bloekes Dicta?

As for Vietnam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar...Advisory_Group

So, if it's not Truman, it had to be before that, at which case I have no idea

5. Major Gen. Daniel E. Sickles

He donated his leg to the Army Medical museum in Washington DC

He was best known for being the first to plead insanity—the first use of a temporary insanity defense in the United States.

As for the Dicta Boelcke, here's what I can remember at the moment:

Advantage before the start of the dogfight, like keeping the sun behind you

Never retreat after you begin your attack

Always shoot from behind your enemy

Never forget your line of retreat

Attack in a large group, but not too many on a single target

1. Porsche and Henschel, Henschel won, but Porsche already built 50 so he fielded them anyways.
2. Diesel engine, easy

3.I honestly dont know, my strong point in air combat is 1939+ but from what I remember it was a monoplane, with the wing sloped upwards, i thought that was kinda strange

4.IIRC the "Tigers" were rebodied T-34s, and there was no SS division there until later in the year. since its battlefield, you could say the "marder" lookalikes werent actually MArders. they were similarly constructed to an earlier Marder Design based on the pz 38.
which was later rebuilt as the Hetzer:know:

5. IIRC Squeeze bore was mainly an antitank rifle thing, I'm not too sure if it was used in tank shells or not. but what it does is make the projectile smaller to increase muzzle velocity. however, since the technology required some VERY detailed work to accomplish correctly, it could damage the weapon if the projectile was not cast properly

6.Tricky, actually, all but Iwo and Moscow were. Iwo, might be one, but all it did was open up airbases so we could bomb mainland japan.
Moscow, well, even though the germans were pushed back, the soviets lost HUGE amounts of men, but it was, above all else, a resounding success (also proving that the NAtional Gaurd IS worth something)

Kursk is strange, it just showed that Blitzkrieg didnt work all the time

When did the name actually change from French Indo-China to Vietnam? I'd assume after Dien Bien Phu, which was 1958 wasn't it?

Say what? Kursk was the true turning point of the Eastern Front, up to that point the Germans still had material and manpower to launch a major offensive, from that point on the Germans were always on the defensive

In fact, Kursk wasn't all that spectacular in terms of casualties, but the defeat at Kursk really set the stage for the crushing defeats in Belorussia and the Balkans the following year

And I still think that the turret was the only thing about the Tiger II which was common to both the Porsche and Henschel designs, while the rest of the tank had differences

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Wasn't it Boelcke who said to hold your fire until the enemy fills the sight of your gun?