http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...b/T34_85_4.jpg

I found one for you, gunter.

Jester, the Panzerfaust and the Panzerschreck were point-detonating shaped charges. Flak jackets were only for aircrews then, too. The Red Army treated their troops as throw-away assets. They made sure that no tank went out without infantry escort. The Panzerfaust and Panzershreck were relatively short-ranged weapons, so any German soldier definitely had to have solid brass cojones to use these devices.

1 cookie for Gunter.

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Gunter, you didn't say WHY those dimensions, so only 1/2 a cookie on the Panamax question.

The length, beam, and draft dimensions are determined by the lock sizes and the depth of the water. The height is determined by the PanAmerican Bridge over the Canal.

'NOTHER QUESTION:

Another particularly nasty close-in weapon is a rehash of an old idea dating back to the Greeks, but a relatively NEW invention, actually invented in 1901. attributed to Richard Fiedler. This weapon, too, required the user to have big brass ones.

What is it? Pix, pls. What replaced it?

The Flammenwerfer, or flame-thrower. A favorite engineering weapon from WWI to Vietnam. The US Army discontinued their in 1978. They're largely been replaced by satchel charges or thermobaric warheads on rockets and missiles.

http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/planetcoh...flameparts.jpg

Well done, Torplexed. Here's yer cookie. Ya gotta admit that there is a great deal of psychological warfare being done when the zippo comes out to play.

I gotta work on my questions or get sneakier.

'NOTHER QUESTION:

http://www.luftarchiv.de/beute/usa/b_17.jpg
Why is this B-17 wearing Luftwaffe markings?

Humm...thats a hot link that went cold. :har:

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/5465/b17dbe.jpg
Cause jerry flies it... so he marks it.

Why is he flying it????

The tail number looks to be 124585 so that would be 41-24585 which was the first B-17 captured by the Germans. The DL-XC id would mean that it is being flown to find out what it can do. Then it was flown around to airbases to show German pilots where the weak point were.

Later it was transfered to KG200 and changed to A3-AE.

Otherwise known as B-17F-27-BO "Wulf Hound", late of the 360th Bomb Squadron, 303d Bomb Group.

Kirk gets 1/2 a cookie, gunter gets the other half PLUS a glass of milk!

'NOTHER QUESTION:

The Fi 103, while fast, was not impervious to being brought down before reaching the designated target. What methods were used?

British intelligence used a "Double Cross System" to provide the Germans false information on trajectories so that they would not hit the cities. Allies also bombed the launch sites and employed proximity fuses on their aa guns to help hit the fast moving V-1s. The Allies also developed a fire control radar to counter the V-1s.

You forgot this method:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lying_Bomb.jpg
By moving one's wingtip under the offending object's wingtip would cause the offending object to tip away, thus tumbling the gyro and causing said offending object to fall down and go boom. 150 Wing RAF was used specifically for this task, as machine gunning the offending object could produce rather disastrous results to one's own aircraft.

But I feel generous, Jester, so you get the whole cookie.

'NOTHER QUESTION:

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/g...orcal_147a.jpg
What is this and for what purpose?

A dust mop! Now go clean your room! :)

Dat ain't no stinkin' swab, ya gob! You call yourself a sailor???? Give them crackerjacks back! You don't deserve them.

hahahah....how about a gun barrel cleaner?

Here's the pitch.... <SWISH> ... swing and a miss, STEEEERIKE TWO!

HINT: It's on the rigging.

Would that be a Dog Vane? If so it was placed on a mast to see which way the wind was a blowing.

No, not a dog vane.

This is a BAGGYWRINKLE, anti-chafing gear on the rigging to prevent the sail from being worn through by friction.

Good question, huh?

'NOTHER QUESTION:

During the buildup for D-Day, the amount of men and material in England was colossal. So much so, that it was joked that these were the only things keeping England from sinking into the sea. What were "these?" Pix, pls.

:D

http://www.kathyamen.net/journal/images/balloon.jpg http://www.skylighters.org/roof/balloons1.jpghttp://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4...alloon_300.jpghttp://www.ssplprints.com/lowres/43/main/47/125876.jpg

Pretty smug, aren't you, Torplexed??? Well, sir, here's yer cookie AND a glass of milk. You're pretty good at deciphering my questions.

By D-Day, about 3000 of those gasbags had been produced. A Barrage Balloon Battery was equipped with 45 balloons. The purpose was to deter low-level aircraft. Most were over England, although some were in use at Normandy. Germany used very few, but they did have effective counter-measures in effect. Even the doodle bugs weren't bothered by the balloons because cable cutters had been built into the wing's leading edges.

'NOTHER QUESTION:

Who/what is/was Pluto??? (Careful, there are multiple answers and I want the main ones!) (There are far too many minor ones.)

The name of Squid's first stuffed animal?? :yeah:

If only we could send you to a Marching Party, Jester.