1 / 10
Identify this postwar American heavy tank, photographed during trials at the Aberdeen proving ground.
- T30
- M6
- T28
- T34
This is the T30, the variant of this family armed with a 155mm gun, photographed at Aberdeen in 1948.
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Challenge #33
These are the ten questions from War Dossier daily challenge #33, of 25 October 2026, with the correct answer and an explanation for each. Today's challenge is a different one and it is free to play.
The dossier entry: T29 / T30 / T34
The T29 was the first of a family of postwar American heavy tanks, begun in 1944 to counter the German Tiger II and built on a lengthened M26 Pershing hull. The T30 replaced its 105mm gun with a 155mm piece, and the T34 fitted a 120mm gun derived from an anti-aircraft weapon. None arrived in time for the war: the first examples were delivered from 1947 for trials at Aberdeen, and several survive today at Fort Benning.
Challenge answers
2 / 10
What was the name of the Irish camp where belligerent military personnel from both sides were interned?
- Curragh
- Mountjoy
- Spike Island
- Glencree
The military internment took place at the Curragh camp, in its so-called "K-Lines".
3 / 10
What personal items did pilots leave for their families, given the impossibility of recovering the body?
- locks of hair and nail clippings
- coins of the era
- photographs of the aircraft
- military decorations
Since the body could not be recovered after the mission, pilots left hair and nails as a symbolic substitute.
4 / 10
How many people made up the group of defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig, including employees and civilians, approximately?
- Close to 57
- Close to 210
- Close to 500
- Close to 20
The group consisted of about 57 people, including postal employees and a few civilians present in the building.
5 / 10
What strategic role did the battleship Tirpitz, stationed in the Norwegian fjords from 1942, mainly play?
- threatening Arctic convoys as a fleet in being, forcing the Royal Navy
- escorting German supply convoys to Finland
- serving as a gunnery training ship for cadets
- operating as a hospital ship in Arctic waters
Its mere presence in Norway forced the British to keep major naval forces in reserve in case it tried to sortie against the convoys.
6 / 10
How many rifle companies, each organized by tribal region, made up the 28th Māori Battalion in addition to headquarters company?
- Four
- Two
- Six
- Three
The battalion had four rifle companies -Northland-Auckland, Rotorua-Bay of Plenty, East Coast and Waikato-South Island- plus a headquarters company.
7 / 10
Against what kind of targets did Schnaufer score almost all his victories?
- British heavy bombers
- Soviet tanks
- American carrier fighters
- Surface warships
His prey were the RAF heavy bombers that attacked Germany by night.
8 / 10
Unlike the hull-down position, which lets a tank withdraw under its own power after combat, recovering a disabled Tiger instead depended on...
- specialized recovery vehicles or several half-tracks working together
- help exclusively from transport aviation
- automatically abandoning the vehicle under any circumstance
- a factory-installed emergency self-propulsion system
While a functioning tank could withdraw on its own, a disabled one needed external recovery means because of its great weight.
9 / 10
What elevation range allowed the ML-20 to combine direct fire and indirect parabolic fire?
- From -2° to 65°
- From 0° to 10° only
- From -30° to 30°
- It could only fire at a fixed 90°
Its wide elevation range, from -2° to 65°, combined with up to thirteen different propellant charges, gave it exceptional firing flexibility for a weapon of its category.
10 / 10
In which of these episodes of the Peleliu campaign was napalm used on the island for the first time, a resource not found in the other events of this stage of the campaign?
- In the flamethrower and napalm campaign against the caves
- In the landing on Angaur
- In the first day's tank counterattack
- In the relief by the 81st Division
Napalm was introduced precisely in the campaign of systematically burning out the Umurbrogol caves.
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