Weapons
What Radio detection and ranging called?
What is Radar?
This object-detection system uses sound waves to determine the position of objects under the water.
What is sonar?
What was the M-4 Medium Tank called
The "Sherman"
He was known as the Desert Fox
Who was Erwin Rommel
Fought in the sky, this battle decided the fate of an Island Nation
What was the Battle of Britain
What was the first Ballistic Missile that Hitler designed to destroy the United Kingdom.
What was the V2?
Ubiquitous small vehicles used by the allied forces to make deployments (it was, and still is, everywhere).
What is the Jeep?
What name did the Germans give to the encoding machine
What was the Enigma machines?
A Chinese territory invaded by Japan in 1931.
What is Manchuria?
What was the German MG 42 called?
"Hitler's Buzz saw"
He was known by his three letter name
Who was Ike (Eisenhower)
This was the turning point battle in the Pacific where the Japanese carrier fleet was destroyed
What is the Battle of Midway
The first cruise missile, it was used by Germany to terrorize England
What was the V1?
The mechanical version of what we use everyday, it was big as a room and used to break codes.
What is a computer?
With few moving parts, this simple type of jet engine was mounted on the V1 .
What is a pulse jet engine?
It is the use of the nuclear chain reaction processes to generate heat and electricity.
What is nuclear power (nuclear energy)?
It was the most prolific Russian tank of WW2
What is the T-34
He was known as "Bomber"
Who was Arthur "Bomber" Harris
This battle between german u-boats and allied convoys was a back-n-forth struggle which decided the fate of Great Britain.
What the Battle of the Atlantic.
The main battle rifle of US troops during WW2
What is the M1 Garrand?
The place (nearby) in which the radar got highly developed after Germany lost interest in it’s improvement (think of a place where really smart people go).
What is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
What was the funny nickname for a M9A1 RL
What is a Bazooka
what was the nickname of Bernard Montgomery
What was "Monty"
This German defeat was considered the turning point in the East.
What was Stalingrad
What was Compositions B or C and C2.
What were the first plastic explosive?
This German physician was notorious for his anthropological studies and research on heredity, using inmates for human experimentation. He was able to escape to Argentina when the war ended.
Who is Josef Mengele?
What is the name given to MP 44
What is the Sturmgewehr
He was known as "Old Blood and Guts"
Who was George S. Patton
This was the largest tank battle of all times.
What was the battle of Kursk
The worst thing about this land mine was that it shot up two feet before it exploded
What was a "Bouncing Betty" mine
The Dakota transport plane was a military version of this popular airliner of the time.
What was the Douglas DC-3.
These torpedoes "listened" for the sounds of propellors to home in on.
What is an acoustic torpedo.
These were attached to the intake manifolds of several plane's engines to increase air intake pressure and improve engine performance at high altitude.
What is a turbo-supercharger.
What was the name given to the B-29 that dropped the first Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima
The Enola Gay
What was the funny nickname for the Nebelwerfer, a piece of German World War II rocket artillery
What was the Screaming Mimi
He was Russia's greatest General
Who was Georgi Zhukov
This battle ended German resistance in WW II
What was the Battle of Berlin