WWII Quiz

perseus said:
The obvious answer is the London Fire brigade, however perhaps you are thinking of the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) which was used to supplement them? I don't think it was a London organisation though.

http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/OutbreakOfWorldWarII.asp
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It was the London taxi drivers.

As there were not enough fire trucks available to fight fires, small mobile pumps were built on trailers and towed behind London Taxi's. Taxi drivers had an advantage of "doing the knowledge" and knew every short cut and road in the city.

Later on Austin trucks were built to carry the crew and tow the pumps and manned by the AFS.

Taxi's was the answer I was looking for.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a6651344.shtml
 
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perseus said:
I didn't realise there was a single WW2 peace treaty. Even the surrender was a messy affair. There was a Paris Peace Conference involving some of the European countries. Here is a list of signatures for the Japanese peace treaty in WW2 http://www.vcn.bc.ca/alpha/learn/SanFran.htm
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Apologies I worded the question too vague.

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This person signed the peace treaty ending WW1 and the Paris Peace Treaties on February 10, 1947
 
I should have guessed!

Perhaps I can have a go. Who was the Spitfire aircraft named after, and what name was going to be used instead?
 
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perseus said:
I should have guessed!

Perhaps I can have a go. Who was the Spitfire aircraft named after, and what name was going to be used instead?
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Ann the daughter of Sir Robert MacLean who was director of Vickers Armstrong. He often called her “His little spitfire.”

She was going to be called Shrew
 
The single major change for the British fire services that came out of the Blitz, was standardisation of equipment such as hose couplings, which proved a problem when other county fire services assisted during the Blitz.
 
Well since you never specified that it was an evacuation of military forces I would suggest it was the German evacuation of East Prussia and Pomerania as that was the largest civilian migration in recorded history much of it by sea.
 
MontyB said:
Well since you never specified that it was an evacuation of military forces I would suggest it was the German evacuation of East Prussia and Pomerania as that was the largest civilian migration in recorded history much of it by sea.
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That's my guess also!
 
Indeed, although even the military evacuated exceeded that of Dunkirk

The flood of refugees turned the operation into one of the largest emergency evacuations by sea in history — over a period of 15 weeks, somewhere between 494 and 1,080 merchant vessels of all types and numerous naval craft, including Germany's largest remaining naval units, would transport about 800,000 - 900,000 refugees and 350,000 soldiers [25] across the Baltic Sea to Germany and occupied Denmark.[26] This evacuation was one of the German Navy's most significant achievements during the war.[27]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_East_Prussia

Wording is important, since perhaps it was the largest 'evacuation' by sea or from any restricted location, although I'm not sure if the migration of Russians East during Barbarossa may have exceeded this. In terms of machines/infrastructure this surely eclipses everything.
 
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perseus said:
When did WWII officially end ?
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5 May 1955.
When the French, British, and US ended all formal occupation of their areas, and merged them into the Federal Republic of Germany or "West Germany". This was actually done on 23 May 1949, but it took a while to get all the final details settled.
 
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