Trivia

Yanny,
That ain’t trivia.  It’s a six page double-spaced typewritten report.

Three questions…

1. What is the origin of the salute?
   Of course, there may be more than one answer/hypothesis to this.  But I only know one.

2. Name the four(4) Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway.(English spelling, please.)

3. What is the S. in Harry S. Truman??

Can we answer my question? And it is: What is the Car?

I think it was a German reconnaissance vehicle, SdKfz series, but I’m not sure.

And I believe the most commonly cited origin of the salute is from the late Middle Ages.  Knights raising the visors on their helmets.

The S in Tumans name stands for NOTHING.  It is just an S

Kagi
Akagi
Kiryu
Soryu

Forgive spelling

And do you want the USAFA treatise on the salute?

Actually Chengora the salute was used by Knights to show that they were unarmed; since you carried your sword in your right hand it naturally was the one used in salute…

nope not the SDKZW, keep trying…

GG

lol the name of the truck is in the properties of the photo ;)

Interesting…I’ve actually heard both, but I thought the visor thing was more popular.  Guess not.

It’s not the SDKZW?  Damn…

Well I hope no one was cheating :wink: … yes folks its the Staghound…

1)What was the name of the 4th Yamato class super battleship that was never completed?

2)What was “Operation Tannenbaum” what nation did it apply to?

3)What was “adlertag”? (eagle day)

3. Eagle Day Refers to the first day of bombing that started the Battle of Britain

naw right subject, wrong answer… keep trying.

Right… It refers to the day when they planned to gain Air Superiority by Bombing Britain’s Airfields and Strategic Production Centers for Aircraft …

It was not the first day of “the battle of britain”… it was the first large scale assault

13 August 1940:

“Adlertag”=Intensification of the Battle of Britain; Airfight between Germany and Britain where nearly 1500 Luftwaffe planes were deployed above England.

@Imperious:

1)What was the name of the 4th Yamato class super battleship that was never completed?

Well, official records say it was “Hull 111.”  At least that is the only one of the 4 non-named Yamato Class vessels that ever started construction.  And of course none of the “Super Yamotos” were never named either.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/Japanese.navy/jap_yamoto_bat.txt

Funny thing was i thought the answer was “hull 798” untill you pulled up that site… but the true answer was hull 111.

WE still have the last question to answer…

Sorry dude… one of the books in my collection is “Shinano!  The Sinking of Japan’s Secret Supership” authored by Captain Enright, the Captain of the Archer-Fish :-)

Well thats the 3rd hull in the yamato class converted to a super-CV folllowing midway. I have that book too…

@Imperious:

Well thats the 3rd hull in the yamato class converted to a super-CV folllowing midway. I have that book too…

Hell of a read… 1 torpedo that actually ran TRUE to it’s depth setting… and then just happened to hit the I-beam supporting the torpedo blister, turngin teh I-bean into a battering ram into the boilers…  Deus Ex Machina anyone?  LOL