WWII - Strange & Interesting Facts: 3 Quiz

Answer: Both of these

This is a trick question as there were two noteworthy Morris Cohens during the WWII period. One was a spy who was married to Lona Cohen who was a courier for Manhattan Project physicist - and Soviet spy - Theodore Hall and the other was an arms dealer from New York who had been made a colonel by Dr Sun Yat Sen and promoted to general after Sun's death by the Chinese Legislative Yuan.

He got the nickname of Two-Gun Cohen as he always carried two guns.

Answer: They landed there

The US 45th Infantry Division had just taken the field when they came in to land. The first one, in a Ju88, was shot at by US flak guns during his landing. When he got out of his plane he shook his fist at the flak batteries. The next two were Me109s. They were all taken prisoner.

Answer: They won the Medal of Honor

Childers was the first Native American, Cannon was the first US Marine, Doss was the first conscientious objector and O'Callaghan was the first chaplain.

Answer: He was awarded the Iron Cross by Germany.

Coward was captured by the Germans shortly before the fall of France in 1940. In an escape attempt he hid in a hospital with German wounded. He was awarded the Iron Cross in error. He ended up in a prisoner of war camp near Auschwitz where he set up an intelligence network and provided information to the Allies.

Answer: Herbert Arthur Dargue

Darque was killed when his plane crashed in California on December 12, 1941, while he was headed to Hawaii to take up his post as new commander of the US Army at Pearl Harbor. McNair was killed on July 25, 1944, by allied bombs during Operation COBRA. Buckner, whose father was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, was killed on Okinawa on June 18, 1945, by enemy artillery fire. Bryant is just a friend of mine.

Answer: Rommel

Interesting. I never thought of Montgomery beating Rommel as being an act of animal cruelty. Willie was Patton's dog, Blackie was McArthur's and Telek belonged to Eisenhower.

Answer: Robert L. Eichelberger

Eichelberger graduated from West Point in 1909. He was a member of the small American force sent to protect American interests during the Siberian Intervention of 1918-1919. As a result of his actions there he received these awards from the Japanese government.

Answer: Karl May

May was one of the best selling German authors of all time and he is chiefly known for his books set in the American West. It is doubtful that he ever visited the American West and his only known trip to the US was well after he had written these books and on that occasion he never went west of Buffalo, New York.

Answer: He was the messenger who delivered the belated "war warning" cable

Fuchikami delivered the now famous telegram, warning of the impending Japanese attack, to the Fort Shafter message center Dec. 7, 1941. It arrived after the attack started - through no fault of Fuchikami's - as it was not marked differently than the other cables he was delivering that day. He didn't know what the message he delivered that day was until about ten years later when he read about it.

Answer: False

Five children and a woman were killed on May 5, 1945, near Bly, Oregon, when a Japanese balloon bomb exploded as they were dragging it from the woods.