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Does Celeon need an invitation to share the joke to others? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Abd_von_Mumit:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Celeon999:
Celeon remembers the common german joke about italian tanks......
Ok hmmmm..wait....what was it like....ah yes....
Why do italian tanks have three gears for driving forwards but six for driving backwards...?
Answer : When the enemy shows up......It just takes too much time to turn the tank around ...
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The Grand Library at Jambo Towers reveals it was this chap?
Gerardus Mooyman was born in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. He grew up in a very pro-German household. His father was a small time retailer whose business suffered greatly during the great depression, resulting in his joining of the NSB in hope of a better future. Mooyman spent his youth hearing superlatives about Hitler and Nazi Germany and admiring the German victories across Europe.
His father wanted Mooyman to work in the family business but he preferred a military career, so in 1941 he volunteered to serve in the 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade Netherlands, and was sent to the eastern front as an anti tank gun commander. In the battle at Lake Ladoga he destroyed 13 tanks, for this action he was the first non-German to be awarded the Knight's Cross. By the end of his service on the front he was credited with destroying 23 Soviet tanks.
As the first non-German to be awarded the Knight's Cross the Nazi propaganda widely published his story in newspapers and magazines, he was congratulated personally by Himmler and, like a showpiece, he had to show up at dozens of receptions, parties and parades. He was illustrated as an example to the Dutch youth.
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Celeon is staggered by Real Jambo's knowledge...
Especially when considering the fact....
That Celeon didnt knew that
Thats was actually not the person i had in mind....
It looks like there was more than just one non-german who was awarded with the Knight's Cross.
The person Celeon is asking for was additionaly awarded the Oakleaves and Swords to the Knight's Cross.
But due to Real Jambo's knowledge, the honor of asking the next question goes to him
Maybe someone can tell who the person is that Celeon had in mind ?
UPDATE : I did some closer research and found out that there were several non-german Knight's Cross holders, for example some from Romania.
But there was only one with Oakleaves and Swords
It looks like the definition of my question was also unlucky formulated...
Anyway....RJ gets the next question. An additional
I can give more hints if needed
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Thank you Celeon.
My question:
Meet Albrecht Brandi:
My apologies - I've edited the last part of my question, having realsied it wasn't correct - It may help you!
I'd like to know which type of British vessel did he sink and roughly where, the destruction of which saved a convoy of fifty German ships that went on to take part <STRIKE>in an important land invasion</STRIKE> in a historic siege of an Allied held Island.
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I think there was a little flaw in the quiz as most people arent online during the weekend.
Please give me some time for my next question
Ok first i would like to reveal the answer to my question which obviously nobody could`nt answer
The only non-german who recieved the Knight`s Cross <span class="ev_code_GREEN">with</span> Oakleaves and Swords was ....
Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
Yamamoto was given the task to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor although he was utmost opposing a war with the USA. He himself studied at the Harvard University.
He is also responsible for the quick victories in the first month of the war in the pacific.
He commanded the fleet which sunk the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.
Yamamoto took his first defeat in the battle of Midway.
After his death in 1943 (his plane was shot down as he was on a tour visiting japanese military bases) he was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves and Swords posthumously.
I think he would not had liked that very much.
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