OT: Trivia Time

[Jester107th]

Carrying on the Squidly tradition....


Q) What are the Swastika Trees and what is their background?

[Task Force]

I heard about these trees!!! Planted (and cutdown) somewhere in germany.

[FIREWALL]

Learn something new every day.

[Capt Squid]

Jester, if I catch you raiding my cookies to pay your debts, you is TOAST!

'NOTHER QUESTION:

What aircraft had the radio callsign "Dimples 82"? Pix, pls.

[Chad]

CaptSquid!!! How are you doing! It's U-421, or your young "grasshopper" How are things with you? It's been too long

[Capt Squid]

Dang! Whuffo you haven't been over to the Moulin Rouge in a long time? You should be legal by now.

[kaptkirkU4467]

Tibbets ordered a disguise for the Enola Gay and escort aircraft on the Hiroshima mission. He had a big black letter R (the insignia of another unit on Tinian, the 313th Bomb Wing) painted on the tail, replacing the 509th’s distinctive arrow in a circle. Also for security, Tibbets changed the call sign from “Victor” to “Dimples.” The Enola Gay flew the mission as “Dimples Eight Two.”

[Jester107th]

Originally Posted by Capt Squid

Jester, if I catch you raiding my cookies to pay your debts, you is TOAST!

Heheheh....look at your avatar Swabbie! hahaha.... You could learn much from this Ace of the Deep.

Nanner Nanner!!!


Task Force, right pic! Missed the history on it. Half an oreo for ya.

In 1937, a local businessman, an ardent follower of Adolf Hitler, planted a 60 by 60 metre area of Larch trees in a forest near the town of Zernikow, about 110 km north of Berlin. The trees were planted in the shape and format of a Swastika and could only be seen from the air. During Autumn, when the Larch trees changed their colour to orange and yellow they stood out strikingly against a green forest of surrounding pine trees. Discovered many years after the war, this long-forgotten symbol of the Nazi era was finally removed by cutting down 27 of the 57 trees that made up the Swastika design. This was done in 2001 by the Brandenburg State Forest authorities.

[Capt Squid]

Jester, you is dead meat!

Kirk, I asked for pixs, not graphics. Sorry, but you only get the bottom 2/3ds of the cookie.

'NOTHER QUESTION:

Unlike our western Paratroopers, Fallschirmjäger had NO control over their descent. Why?

[gunter]

Because their chutes were based on the Italian "Salvatore" design. The German chutes had a single strap between the back of the body harness and the chute. This resulted in a face down position which required knee and elbow pads and a forward roll upon landing.

The Luftwaffe however used shoulder belt straps like the US and British.

[Capt Squid]

Interesting tidbit of information:

10 Commandments of the German Parachutist

1. You are the chosen ones of the German Army. You will seek combat and train yourselves to endure any manner of test. To you the battle shall be fulfillment.

2. Cultivate true comradeship, for by the aid of your comrades you will conquer or die.

3. Beware of talking. Be not curruptible. Men act while women chatter. Chatter may bring you to the grave.

4. Be calm and prudent, strong and resolute. Valor and enthusiasm of an offensive spirit will cause you to prevail in the attack.

5. The most precious thing in the presence of the foe is ammunition. He who shoots uselessly, merely to comfort himself, is a man of straw who merits not the title of Parachutist.

6. Never surrender. To you death or victory must be a point of honor.

7. You can triumph only if your weapons are good. See to it that you submit yourself to this law--first my weapon and then myself.

8. You must grasp the full purpose of every enterprise, so that if your leader be killed you can fulfil it.

9. Against an open foe fight with chivalry, but to a guerrilla extend no quarter.

10. Keep your eyes wide open. Tune yourself to the topmost pitch. Be nimble as a greyhound, as tough as leather, as hard as Krupp steel, and so you shall be the German warrior incarnate.

Uh, the Luftwaffe was in charge of the Falschirmjäger, gunter. But I'll still kick out with the cookie.

Well done, sir.

'NOTHER QUESTION:


How many ZIP codes does this building have?

[Capt Squid]

YO! Anyone gonna answer the question?

[gunter]

4.

DoD
Army
Air Force
Navy

[martes86]

Aren't ZIP codes what define a postal region in the US? Why would the Pentagon have 4 for itself?

[Capt Squid]

Methinks Gunter has something against the Marines. Is he rotten to the Corps???

Zip Codes


martes, I have no idea why the Puzzle Palace would have 6 all for itself (NOT 4). But you are correct in that ZIP codes define postal regions, much the same as postal codes all over. One possible theory is that, like telephone number exchanges, there are too many offices in the Pentagon and too much mail to be handled by one ZIP.

Even though The Pentagon is located in Arlington Virginia, the United States Postal Service requires that "Washington, D.C." be used in conjunction with the six ZIP Codes assigned to it:

Secretary of Defense 20301
Joint Chiefs of Staff 20318
United States Army 20310
United States Air Force 20330
United States Navy 20350
United States Marine Corps 20380

So, you get the bottom cookie and the filling, but not the top half.

'NOTHER QUESTION:

Which ARMY infantry division was manned by Marines and during which war?