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Challenge #22

These are the ten questions from War Dossier daily challenge #22, of 14 October 2026, with the correct answer and an explanation for each. Today's challenge is a different one and it is free to play.

Which Soviet marshal is shown in this portrait, wearing the uniform of a Marshal of Poland?
Credit: Autor desconocido - Museo del Cobre (muzeum-miedzi.art.pl) · Licence: Dominio publico (PD-Polonia) · View at original source

The dossier entry: Rokossovski y el plan del doble golpe

As commander of 1st Belorussian Front, Konstantin Rokossovsky proposed two simultaneous main thrusts north and south of the Pripyat marshes toward Bobruisk, instead of concentrating the attack on a single axis. When Stalin questioned the plan during a Stavka meeting, Rokossovsky asked to leave the room to reconsider it and returned twice with the same recommendation, which was ultimately approved and validated by the operation's success. Years later he would also hold the rank of Marshal of Poland.

Challenge answers

1 / 10

Which Soviet marshal is shown in this portrait, wearing the uniform of a Marshal of Poland?

  • Konstantin Rokossovsky
  • Georgy Zhukov
  • Ivan Konev
  • Semyon Timoshenko

The portrait shows Konstantin Rokossovsky, who years after Bagration became Marshal of Poland.

2 / 10

What caliber was the Ordnance QF 17-pounder?

  • 76.2 mm
  • 57 mm
  • 88 mm
  • 94 mm

Its caliber was 76.2 mm (3 inches). Despite being named '17-pounder' after its shell weight, that caliber put it in the same league as the feared German 88 mm in terms of anti-tank lethality.

3 / 10

In which month of the Luzon campaign did the rescue of the Cabanatuan prisoners take place?

  • January 1945
  • October 1944
  • March 1945
  • September 1945

The rescue took place on the night of 30 January 1945, just weeks after the Lingayen Gulf landing.

4 / 10

Which larger unit did the so-called 'X-Troop' belong to?

  • No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando
  • The 1st Parachute Brigade
  • The Special Boat Section
  • The French Foreign Legion

X-Troop was No. 3 Troop of No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando.

5 / 10

Comparing the Japanese I-400 submarine with the American Gato-class submarine (USS Gato) in this collection, which had the greater displacement?

  • The I-400, at 6,560 t versus the Gato's 1,525 t
  • The Gato, at 6,560 t versus the I-400's 1,525 t
  • Both had practically the same displacement
  • The Gato was actually larger since it was built later

The I-400 displaced 6,560 tonnes compared to the American Gato-class submarine's 1,525 tonnes, more than four times as much, making it the largest submarine built up to that time, large enough to house a full floatplane hangar.

6 / 10

Ernst Barkmann's action in July 1944 took place during...

  • the Allied breakout on the Normandy front known as Operation Cobra
  • the initial fighting of D-Day, on 6 June
  • the German retreat after the fall of the Falaise pocket
  • the Allied advance toward the Rhine, already in 1945

Barkmann's action took place during Operation Cobra, the Normandy front breakout launched by American forces in late July 1944.

7 / 10

When did construction of Guam's North Field begin?

  • November 1944
  • June 1942
  • August 1945
  • March 1943

Work began in November 1944, after the island's liberation.

8 / 10

In which part of the United States were many of the Axis prisoner camps concentrated?

  • In rural areas of the south and southwest of the country
  • In the major industrial cities of the northeast
  • In naval bases on the Pacific coast
  • In Alaska and the Arctic territories

Sites were chosen away from industrial areas, with mild climates, mostly in the south and southwest of the country.

9 / 10

In what year were the blueprints for the standard A4 variant of the Browning M1919 finalized?

  • 1936
  • 1919
  • 1942
  • 1928

The M1919 family debuted in 1919, but the standard World War II A4 variant (the most widespread) had its blueprints finalised in late 1936. It was also used, in various forms, mounted in tanks and aircraft.

10 / 10

Which of these events of the 1939 Polish campaign was the overall offensive of which the others were specific episodes?

  • The German invasion of Poland as a whole
  • The attack on the Westerplatte depot
  • The dawn bombing of Wieluń
  • The Battle of the Bzura river

Westerplatte, Wieluń and the Battle of the Bzura were specific episodes within the general offensive Germany unleashed on 1 September 1939.

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