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What was the classification that NASA gave as the "moose" to a foreign aircraft and how many world records did it set in its known classification ? Builds in progress: HMS Victory.HMS Surprise.
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Hello Pete, I may be wrong but I'm not sure that NASA gave classifications for foreign aircraft? Did you mean the call signs/names that NATO use to recognise foreign aircraft?
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Sorry about that its the reporting name that NASA gave the aircraft. Peter  Builds in progress: HMS Victory.HMS Surprise.
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Yes you are right there kev, but NASA gave the name to this aircraft. Well done over to you. Peter Builds in progress: HMS Victory.HMS Surprise.
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Thanks for that Pete! 
A fairly easy two part question for you:
1. What was the name of the 'Special Force' consisting of both British and Indian forces, which served during the Burma Campaign against the Japanese between 1943 and 1944 and used a newly developed guerilla warfare tactic of long range penetration behind enemy lines?
2. Which British Brigadier is credited with the creation of this 'Special Force'?
Kev
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Chindits British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate
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I did say it was fairly easy Daran, but you got that quicker than some of those Chindits got dysentery!!   
Correct my friend, your turn.
Kev
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What was formed in July 1940 by Commando officer Roger Courtney?
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Special Boat Section...this later became the Special Boat Service,the Navy's special forces who unlike the equally secretive SAS don't let people know who or what they are/were.Royal Navy "THE" Silent Service Rob Nolli Illigitimi Carborundum!!!Current Builds: HMS Victory, SV Thermopylae
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Correct sir!!!
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As a follow on to the recent 617 Dambusters Squadron exploits I thought this question would be appropriate. 618 Squadron was formed to carry out a special bombing task A;What was it? B;What bomb was designed & by whom for the task C;On what sea loch on the West Coast of Scotland were the trials for the bomb conducted,3 years ago divers found 8 examples of it on the bottom of the Loch as well as remains of other secret mission materials. Rob Nolli Illigitimi Carborundum!!!Current Builds: HMS Victory, SV Thermopylae
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The squadron was formed to attack the German Battleship Tirpitz using a smaller variation of the Barnes Wallis bouncing bomb codenamed "Highball". Two such spherical bombs were carried by modified Mosquitoes and the practise missions were carried out over Loch Striven. The mission was subsequently cancelled and the squadron transferred to the far east to attack Japanese warships instead, again no missions were flown before the squadron was disbanded at the end of the war. (I believe it was the Highball design which was given to the Americans to try out. Unfortunately they dropped it from too low an altitude, (I'm not sure what aircraft it was, a light twin engine bomber by the look of it) and the splash back tore the entire tail of the aircraft clean off) The David McCallum film "Mosquito Squadron"? showed the same aircraft dropping similar bouncers on land targets! Robin First wooden ship: The Grimsby 12 Gun 'Frigate' by Constructo Second: Bounty DelPrado Part Works Third: HMS Victory DelPrado Part Works 1/100 scale Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault Index for the Victory diary is on page 1
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Ooooh yeah!! I remember that film, isn't that the one where they had to practice bouncing the bombs through giant goalposts, a bit like playing Croquet with twin-engine bombers, but everybody kept missing until David McCallum finally scored a bullseye with his last bomb then they all went home for 'tiffin'?
It was on TV quite recently - don't you just love those old B&W war films!!
Kev
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Well done Robin, Loch Striven was the scene of many secret weapons & the training area for various attacks on the Fjords as it is long,narrow,twisty with very deep water exactly like the Fjords. The X=Craft trained there,in fact there is still one on the bottom,the cockleshell heroes trained there & many commando assaults were practised along it's shores.It is a very dark brooding place & virtually silent most of the time it is also despite all this very beautiful,The waters are very dark,cold & extremely dangerous as there is a very strong current about 3-4 feet under the surface,many have died there & a small discrete plaque is a memorial to them all.As a teenager in the Sea Scouts I used to go camping there as it is 5 miles from where we lived. Rob Nolli Illigitimi Carborundum!!!Current Builds: HMS Victory, SV Thermopylae
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Thanks Rob! Ok, this one sort of stretches the rules of the quiz as to know the answer, you will have to have seen the film I mentioned in the last answer "Mosquito Squadron" but the answers ARE real military events! The main target in the film which was attacked with land based bouncing bombs was purely ficticious, however, due to the complicated plot of the film the final attack included a secondary target which the heroes could only attack if they destroyed the primary objective first. This secondary target was based on an actual mission flown by Mosquitoes and was one of the greatest examples of true precision bombing of WW2 (and they didn't even have the wonderful Norden bombsight either!) Question 1: What was the actual target attacked during WW2? Question 2: What was the objective of the mission and it's Codename? Best of luck to all you film buffs! Robin First wooden ship: The Grimsby 12 Gun 'Frigate' by Constructo Second: Bounty DelPrado Part Works Third: HMS Victory DelPrado Part Works 1/100 scale Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault Index for the Victory diary is on page 1
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OK, here's a clue: Think Jail break! First wooden ship: The Grimsby 12 Gun 'Frigate' by Constructo Second: Bounty DelPrado Part Works Third: HMS Victory DelPrado Part Works 1/100 scale Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault Index for the Victory diary is on page 1
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Hello Rob,
1. Amiens Prison in German occupied France in 1944 wherby they blew a wall out on one side of the prison and then blew another hole in the perimeter wall to allow escape. I think the Germans were guilty of massacre when they machine gunned a lot of the prisoners as they tried to get to the hole in the outer wall?
2. 'Operation Jericho' which was intended to free captured French Resistance fighters and political prisoners from Amien prison.
I'm not sure if I'm right on this, but didn't they also try attacking some Gestapo buildings in the nearby town of Amiens on the same raid but unfortunately a school was mistakenly hit and quite a few children were killed as a result?
Kev
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Hi Kev The raid when the school was hit by mistake was a different operation it was a raid to destroy all the information the gestapo had stored on the Danish resistance in a building in Denmark regards Andy Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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Hi Kev and well done, right on all counts! The Amiens raid was one of the greatest precision bombing acts of WW2 along with that other raid on the Gestapo HQ, although the school was unfortunately hit as Andy says, I think they did actually completely destroy the HQ too and this operation was also transferred to the big screen as a part of the 633 Squadron storyline. The Amiens prison raid has become controversial lately as the RAF maintain that the prisoners were going to be executed by the SS according to Resistance reports and the Resistance asked for the raid, the Resistance now claim that too many prisoners died in the attack and that they never asked for the attack to be made.  Whichever, it was still a brilliant piece of flying! Over to you Kev. First wooden ship: The Grimsby 12 Gun 'Frigate' by Constructo Second: Bounty DelPrado Part Works Third: HMS Victory DelPrado Part Works 1/100 scale Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault Index for the Victory diary is on page 1
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