WWII trivia test

[The Freeholder]

8 of 10, and I'll argue them on the Lugar question.

 

[Dr.Rob]

How do you recognize a Luger? It's certainly NOT because it's a 9mm.

 

[Hutch]

9 of 10, and I missed the Luger question as well. I guess in my heart, I know I'm right... It IS the toggle link, dammit!

 

[OH25shooter]

I do well with American WWll weapons, but not foreign. If it were graded on a curve...I passed.

 

[stevekl]

Perfect 10

But, to be honest, in answering the question about the drum-fed SMG which inspired the PPSh-41, I narrowed it down to two choices and just flipped a coin, and ended up getting it right. But I pretty much knew all the other ones.

Edit: About the Luger question. I think what they meant by 'innovation' was, which feature of the Luger has the most impact on firearm design today? That, of course, is its cartridge. I picked up on that, but at the same time I think 'innovation' is the incorrect choice of words for something meaning 'most important impact on future designs'. If that was a question on a test at school, I would probably argue it.

I, too, will argue the toggle bolt over caliber for the Luger question. I beilieve the 9mm round predates the Luger, so had no impact on the design of the pistol. It was merely refitted to chamber the round. I might be wrong about the dates, but don't think so.

I'm about 99.9% sure that the 9mm parabelum round was created when the luger's original cartridge was necked up. I don't think 9mm predated the gun.

 

[ozarkhillbilly]

9 out of 10 it was the Luger question

 

[eab]

Luger qustion and how was I supposed to know the Bren was still in service in the Brit army?!! Got everything else, guessed on Piat q.

 

[GunnySkox]

8/10

Missed the "still in service" and the "Luger" ones.

~GnSx

 

[colt.45]

i only got a 5 i need to study more

 

[RON in PA]

9 out of 10. The Luger question.

 

[IndianaDean]

I only got 4, but the bulk of my WWII studies when I was young focused on tanks and planes, not small arms.

 

[Trebor]

10/10

The Luger question was easy. The 9mm round was designed for the Luger. It is still the most popular handgun round in the world today. The toggle-link was a dead end. Name a current handgun that uses that locking system? You can't, can you? That makes the 9mm round more of a "significent innovation" than the toggle link.

As far as MG's still in service, the BREN's were rechambered and remarked "7.62 NATO." They used the original receivers. We all know that the .50 M2HB "MA Deuce" is still around. The Soviets pulled all the DP's MG's after WWII and replaced them with new designs. That leaves only the MG-42. Since the basic design continued to be used with only a rechambering to 7.62 NATO, that was the obvious choice. (I don't know if they used any original WWII receivers though, but the design was the same).

 

[Texfire]

7/10.

Missed DPM, Bren and PIAT. I honestly thought that the PIAT was a spring launched projectile, not a spring fired one.

Tex

 

[db_tanker]

grrr....


6 of 10 thought I was better than that...

I don't feel too bad about the Luger question, though....

 

[Randy in Arizona]

I got 4/10 and I'm a high school social studies teacher. Dang public schools.

ks - That is one of the reasons to be here, to learn!

 

[DontBurnMyFlag]

I got 7 only for the following reason.

I thought the DPM was the RPD for russian machine guns.

 

[CZ-100]

WOO WOO I got 10 out of 10.

But in all realality I should of gotten 9 of 10, I went back and changed the Lugar question. I first picked the toggle answer.

 

[Bart Noir]

I still believe the PIAT was spring launched. I've seen video of men stuggling to arm it, and they aren't fighting any firing-pin spring.

I think the toggle action was actually used in the Maxim machine gun from the 1880's. I have no reference books with me, but think it used the basic action: barrel and toggle move together until a fixed cam surface bumps the toggle, so the "knee" can bend and separate the bolt from the barrel.

Bart Noir

 

[Gifted]

I'm not sure about the 7.92 part. I can understand that though. I didn't know the Brits HAD an anti-tank thing like that then. With the sub guns, the numbers confused me. Saying the Bren was developed in CZ got me, as I figured that would make it an Axis weapon. I'll agree with you guys about the toggle lock. At least half of Europe was using 9mm by the time WWII rolled around, so I didn't think it was that big of a deal.

 

[CB900F]

Fella's;

7/10 for me & another pitch a batch about the Luger question.

900F

 

[Lucky]

I still believe the PIAT was spring launched. I've seen video of men stuggling to arm it, and they aren't fighting any firing-pin spring.

I think the toggle action was actually used in the Maxim machine gun from the 1880's. I have no reference books with me, but think it used the basic action: barrel and toggle move together until a fixed cam surface bumps the toggle, so the "knee" can bend and separate the bolt from the barrel.

Bart Noir

I said that once, and a guy set me straight and told me it was more like a mortar.

 

[M.E.Eldridge]

9, didn't know about the one that was still in service till the 90s

Thats the one I missed too. Had no idea the MG 42 was in use for that long.

 

[mp510]

9 out of 10. I got the baxooka one wrong

 

[daniel (australia)]

I still believe the PIAT was spring launched. I've seen video of men stuggling to arm it, and they aren't fighting any firing-pin spring.

I think the toggle action was actually used in the Maxim machine gun from the 1880's. I have no reference books with me, but think it used the basic action: barrel and toggle move together until a fixed cam surface bumps the toggle, so the "knee" can bend and separate the bolt from the barrel.

Bart Noir

Not spring launched, and not quite a firing pin either. The PIAT was variant of the spigot mortar. The big spring drove a long machined spigot up a tube through the centre of the round, setting off a small charge. The round then sort of "unsheathed' itself off the spigot and went downrange. Effectively the reverse of the normal gun: the "barrel" being formed inside the round:

In theory, as the projectile spat itself off the spigot the recoil would drive the spigot back, thereby recocking it and absorbing the recoil. In practice this did not happen reliably, and the spring was very difficult to recock. The weapon was said to be reasonably effective though, out to about 100 yards on tanks and several hundred yards used as a makeshift mortar, and it did have the advantage of avoiding the backblast of bazookas and the like. I've never fired one, but I have fired an 84mm Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle, and that has backblast and firing signature in spades.

As for the toggle action, that was lifted direct from Borchardt's design, and not a Luger innovation at all. You are right though, that the Maxim (1884) used a toggle system too.

 

[seeker_two]

8 out of 10....

I disagree w/ the Bren question. The modifications (esp. in caliber) make the L4A4 & L4A5 a whole different animal than the WWII model...enough to change the model.

And what the heck is a PIAT?

Oh...(looking up)...now I see...