Pop quiz

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:24 pm

Damn the torpedoes is a Union Admiral at Mobile Bay in the ACW, it is what we would call mines today.

Had to look up: David Farragut, who died the same year as General Robert E. Lee.
What year was that?
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Jim, thank you for the information. I forgot about H & J series formations.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:36 pm

Cav dog, close, but no cigar.

Chris, yes on Farragut, mines, and Mobile Bay.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:53 pm

Chris, they both died in 1870.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:56 pm

Another question...

How many regiments were in the US WWII light armored division?

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:00 pm

PG, the men running toward you... they are running from something very bad, perhaps a surprise or shocking situation. Could be a break through by the enemy, a tumultuous situation that they want to get away from.

Cav Dog · Post by **Cav Dog** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:04 pm

PG is looking for seeing the elephant, civil war term for green troops seeing action for the first time who tended to beak and flee.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:49 pm

Cav Dog,

Nope, not what I'm looking for...

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:54 pm

Chris, Cav dog,

The men running toward you are giving you life-and-death clue and you must be smart enough to determine how to interpret it. Your survival, and that of your command, likely depend on your knowledge. What in hell is happening?

Patton's Task Force Baum, launched to rescue his son-in-law, failed. What happened to his son-in-law?

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:10 am

His son got shot in hip as I recall. Successful army career. Remained a prisoner. Liberated at end of war. The US column got mauled.
Ultimately earned promotion to general.
Patton got in some trouble, again.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:13 am

Very good , Chris. One History Channel program reported that he died in a prison camp. He did not.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 5:43 pm

Open questions:

Where are Topside and Bottomside?

What is a testudo?

What are men fleeing toward you looking over their shoulder telling you?

How many regiments were in a WWII light armored division?

What is permission to crennelate?

What does the boot in the West Point museum symbolize?

Robel's question -use, construction, and additional tools required for employing a gun tube wrench?

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 9:33 pm

First, I hope it doesnâ€™t have to do with ionosphere. If it does Iâ€™m sending an SS-27 your wat.
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Corregidor Island is an island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in southwestern part of ... The highest elevation is at 180 m (590 ft) on the Topside. ... South of Bottomside was Barangay or Barrio San JosÃ© (near what was Navy Beach); on ...
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Topside-airborne attack
Bottomside- amphibious attack.
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Testudo, the official mascot of the University of Maryland, is not your ordinary Diamondback terrapin. For more than 80 years, he has been the symbol for this campus, overseeing us in good times and bad. It is not easy work, and Testudo has experienced firsthand the dangers involved in being a source of campus pride.
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Men running towards you looking over their shoulder indicates that the enemy is hear, they have broken through.
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Light armored divisions had Zero regiments, 3 armored battalions. Same equipment as regular division, just smaller.
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License to crenellations is permission to fortify. Medieval England, you would have received a letter from the king to build a castle.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 10:26 pm

Chris,

Close enough on Corregidor, but not exactly. There were two Army posts, one on the higher elevation, the other on he waterline, informally referred to by the troops by those nicknames.

You are SO WRONG about "testudo."

You are STILL WRONG about the retreating soldiers.

You are correct regarding the regiments of a light armored division - the three tank battalions had their own numbers, although under CARS, some, such as 37th MTB, were used to establish regiments.

*** So which tank regiment were maintained intact during WWII?

You are correct regarding permission to crennalate.

***What is crennelation?

THERE REMAIN SEVERAL OPEN QUESTIONS. Perhaps we should discontinue the thread if interest has fallen off.

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 10:53 pm

That turtle can take off a hand of the unwary.
It is the Offical mascot of the University of Maryland.
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Testudo
Plutarch describes this formation as used by Mark Antony during his invasion of Parthia in 36 BC: Then the shield-bearers wheeled round and enclosed the light-armed troops within their ranks, dropped down to one knee, and held their shields out as a defensive barrier.
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Testudo may refer to: Battering ram, an armored siege engine with metal plating on the top to protect from missiles fired from above; Chevrolet Testudo, .
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Noun. crenellation (countable and uncountable, plural crenellations) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
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In a geological context, crenulation or crenulation cleavage is a fabric formed in metamorphic rocks such as phyllite, schist and some gneiss by two or more stress directions causing the formation of the superimposed foliations

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 11:01 pm

I like it, sometimes it may take a day or two. Some if they know might wait to allow another who might not be as knowledgeable to answer, perhaps research then answer.
If open for awhile, week... maybe disregard or close it out.
What do you guys think?