Military History Quiz 1. When and where was the first wartime tank landing undertaken from the sea? 2. Name the first British jet combat aircraft adopted by the USAF and produced in the USA? 3. Where and when did US. and Soviet ground forces first link up during WWII? 4. What country was the first (and only) country to produce an aircraft whose primary armament was the recoilless cannon? 5. Who was the first tank driver? 6. Which Australian military unit received a Korean Presidential Citation in 1950? 7. What was the difference between a "female" and a "male" tank in WWI? 8. What was the "Jock" column and where did it operate? 9. What aircraft was fitted with the first operational ejector seat? 10. Most aircraft have an appellation (name) assigned to them. What was the one given to the FW-190 by its manufacturers but rarely or never used? 11. What was the name of the first Allied warship to successfully penetrate the Dardanelles during WWI? 12. Who said he could be called "Meyer" if the Allies ever managed to bomb Berlin? 13. When did the first successful use of rockets occur in an air-to-air combat between fighters? 14. What was "Hairy-Mary"? 15. What was the name of the first warship which completely dispensed with sails and instead relied completely upon steam for its motive power? 16. What was the fate of the first HMAS Australia? 17. On what date was the first bombing of the city of Darwin? 18. What was the name of the Australian war cameraman who won an Academy Award for his footage during the New Guinea campiagn? 19. Name the only two British Field Marshals to have risen through the ranks to that position? 20. At what battle were the Chinese first defeated in the Korean War? 21. By tradition who provides the Captain's Bridge Chair on all new Royal Australian Navy vessels and what type is it? 22. When the Royal Navy introduced this weapon in 1982 their ratings immediately christened them "Daleks". What are they? 23. What were the "Pals" Battalions? 24. Who founded the British Special Air Service? 25. What was Operation "Jericho" during World War Two? ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ 1. At Alhucemas, on the North African coast, by the Spanish in operations against the Berber rebel army during the war in Spanish Morocco on 8 September 1925. The vehicles landed where Renault FT17's. 2. The B-57 Canberra 3. Torgau on the Elbe, 4:40pm, 25 April 1945. 4. The Soviet Union. The I-Z fighter, mounting two 45mm recoilless rifles under the wings and a single machine gun in the fuselage were taken into service in 1932. The aircraft surprisingly was intended not for ground attack but for air-to-air combat against bombers attacking the Soviet motherland. 5. CPO Hill, RNAS, who was a member of 20 Squadron RNAS, the unit which provided personnel for the early RNAS `Landship' experiments and trials. Hill drove "Mother" (the first true tank) on the official demonstration runs in Hatfield Park, January 26 - February 2, 1916, and on February 8 he gave a further demonstration run this time for King George V who was also given a ride in the vehicle. 6. 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment for services during the advance from Pusan to the North Korean border. 7. Male tanks were armed with cannon, while female only had machine guns. 8. It was a column of mixed units, consisting of all arms (ie infantry, armour and artillery) and they operated in the North African campaign in 1940-41. They were named after Lt.Col. (later Lt.Gen. GOC 7 Armd. Div.) `Jock' Campbell. 9. Heinkel He219. 10. Wurger - a type of European Shrike or more popularly known as a "butcher bird". 11. Australian submarine AE-2, on 25 April 1915 12. Riechsmarshall Herman Goering 13. August 1939. A group of Soviet I-16 fighters successfully fired a volley of RS-75 rockets at a Japanese formation of fighters and brought down two aircraft during one of the numerous border incidents on the Mongolian border. 14. She was an "armoured" steam engine which was operated by the British during the second Boer war of 1899. It made use of a large quantity of thick rope hawsers to provide protection against Boer rifle fire. Hence her name. It actually looked rather like Dougal the Dog from Magic Roundabout. 15. HMS Cerberus, a twin screw, Iron armour plated turret ship (monitor). She served with the Victorian Colonial and Royal Australian navies. She and her sister ship, the Magdala were the first warships to completely dispense with sails. Cerberus still exists today as part of a breakwater at Black Rock, in Victoria. 16. She was scuttled off the Sydney heads as part of the British Empire's compliance with the Washington Naval Treaty. 17. 19 February 1942 18. Damian Parer. He was killed in 1944 when filming American troops as they advanced. Despite his having warned them as to his presence, he was shot by them. 19. Field Marshal Sir William ("Wully") Robertson (1860- 1933), C-In-C of the British Army during the 2nd Boer War. He enlisted as a trooper in the 16th Lancers and retired as CIGS. The other was Field Marshal Vicount (William Joseph) Slim (1891-1970) he went to war as a private and included service with Conscientious Objectors !! 20. Pakchon, 5 November 1950. A & B Companies, 3 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. 21. QANTAS. It is a first class seat from one of their aircraft. 22. They are the Phalanx anti-missile system. 23. They were the battalions of volunteer soldiers who answered Kitchener's call for recruits after the fighting on the Marne had decimated the B.E.F. in 1915. 24. Captain David Stirling 25. The air attack on Amiens prison by the RAF to release resistance prisoners held there by the Germans on 18 Feb 1944.