Scouts Quiz

[dandyboy]

Wartime names

Identify the following code names from 1939-1945

36 Rupert (1944)
37 Window
38 Pluto
39 Mulberry
40 Knickebein

No number of letters given
I haven't a clue where to start looking. Can someone please give me a nudge in the right direction.

[scorpiojo]

Radar?

[dandyboy]

Thanks scorpiojo

[scorpiojo]

You're welcome. Good luck.

[shoota]

Google floating docks for d-day

[Fibonacci]

36 Small dummy paratroopers dropped as part of D-day invasion ?
http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/d-day-june-6-1944.html

37 Chaff ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)

38 Pipeline ?
http://pipelinesinternational.com/news/pluto_pipeline/040212/

39 Planning and BUilding of Normandy Harbours ?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Name-MULBERRY-Planning-Operation/dp/1848845588

40 German Radar System ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams

[dannyk13]

38/Pipe line under the ocean

[shoota]

38 Google fuel supply normandy landing

[shoota]

///Can someone please give me a nudge in the right direction. ///

[paddywak]

Window== small pieces of tin foil dropped to confuse radar

[dannyk13]

Pluto= acronym for Pipeline under the ocean. A system supplying the allied landings with fuel from the south of England

[scorpiojo]

^ what shoota said

[dannyk13]

Rupert was code word for an expedition to capture Narvik in Norway.

[cottack]

look up mulberry harbour Garliston
this might help.

[smouse]

Can you tell me which scout group please you have reminded me I used to do a really good one (used to have split faces etc) and am wondering if it is that and the name might ring a bell

[dandyboy]

Cartmel Scouts
Barbara Leader, Bramble How, Allithwaite, Grange over Sands LA11 7QU

[dandyboy]

Thanks for all your help everyone

[smouse]

Dont think its same one then but thanks