Douglas Bader - UK (North)

Question

After crashing while performing aerial acrobatics, this pilot wrote in his logbook the blunt entry “Crashed slow-rolling near ground. Bad show.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this fighter pilot whose squadron had shot down sixty-seven enemy aircraft by the end of 1940, many during the Battle of Britain. This fighter pilot was nicknamed “Tin Legs” after having both legs amputated in 1931.

ANSWER: Douglas Bader [or Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader]

[10e] Douglas Bader achieved his first victory after shooting down an enemy aircraft near this port. In 1940, over 300,000 Allied soldiers were evacuated from this port in northern France after being surrounded by Axis forces.

ANSWER: Dunkirk [or Dunkerque]

[10m] After several attempts to escape captivity, Douglas Bader was transferred to this “escape-proof” prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. This camp was located within a castle in Saxony, after which it is commonly known.

ANSWER: Colditz Castle [or Oflag IV-C]

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UK (South)	UK	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northern California	Main	N	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Southern California	Main	N	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
Eastern Canada	Main	N	13	10.77	92%	15%	0%
Florida	Main	N	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	N	7	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	10	12.00	90%	30%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	N	11	14.55	100%	46%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	N	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Lower Midwest	Main	N	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upper Midwest	Main	N	12	11.67	100%	17%	0%
North	Main	N	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
Northeast	Main	N	12	14.17	100%	42%	0%
South Central	Main	N	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
UK	Main	N	14	12.14	93%	14%	14%
Upstate NY	Main	N	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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