History Quiz

What were Hobart's Funnies, named after British Major General Percy Hobart?

What is British WWII pilot Douglas Bader best-known for?

For what war crime was Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita, 'the Tiger of Malaya', sentenced to death after the war? (The principle behind the sentence became known as the 'Yamashita standard.')

Can you identify this American machine gun?

Legendary musician Glenn Miller and his Army Air Force Band famously entertained soldiers in Europe. What is the most likely explanation behind Miller's mysterious disappearance over the English Channel?

Where exactly in Munich was the National Socialist German Workers' Party (the NSDAP, the "Nazi party") founded on February 24, 1920?

Which of these events (some of them false) influenced the Allied decision to bomb the Italian abbey of Monte Cassino into rubble?

How many Allied carriers have been sunk by Japanese kamikaze planes during the war?

What was the name of the late-1942 Soviet operation to encircle Axis forces at Stalingrad and save the city?

Which of these commando raids by the British Commonwealth against Nazi-held Europe ended in an infamous defeat with the loss of many lives, ships and aircraft?