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Offline skernsk

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Who fired the first shot?
« on: January 03, 2002, 08:12:00 AM »
I was reading a thread in the Aircraft and Vehicle forum where the battleship Schleswig-Holstein was mentioned as having fired the first shot of WW2.

I always thought it was Stuka's attacking key bridges in Poland to destroy the charges before the Poles could blow the bridges up.

There are some historians in the crowd...who/what did fire the first shot?
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Offline scooby

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Who fired the first shot?
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2002, 11:20:00 AM »
'twas the battleship firing on th city  :D
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Offline Angus

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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2002, 04:42:00 AM »
The first shot...
The first bullets were fired into german prisoners dressed up as polish soldiers at the borders  :eek:
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Offline Oldman731

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Who fired the first shot?
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2002, 07:34:00 AM »
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Originally posted by scooby:
'twas the battleship firing on th city   :D

Agreed.  (Except that I thought it was a destroyer, not a BB.)

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Offline Seeker

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Who fired the first shot?
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2002, 07:40:00 AM »
A pistol shot in Sarajevo.

(raises Oldman, and takes a card.....)
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Offline Oldman731

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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2002, 11:11:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Seeker:
A pistol shot in Sarajevo.

(raises Oldman, and takes a card.....)

Hmmm.  Last shot fired at Sedan, 1870.

(calls.)

- oldman
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Offline skernsk

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Who fired the first shot?
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2002, 11:25:00 AM »
Caveman beating other caveman with stick....

<folds>
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Offline Seeker

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Who fired the first shot?
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2002, 02:20:00 PM »
Waterloo

<shows>  :)
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Offline Oldman731

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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2002, 03:00:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Seeker:
Waterloo

<shows>   :)

Sorry.  Your Waterloo goes down to my Unification of Germany.

- oldman
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Offline Seeker

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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2002, 08:14:00 PM »
<tunrs table over >  :)
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Offline Widewing

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« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2002, 12:00:28 PM »
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Agreed.  (Except that I thought it was a destroyer, not a BB.)

- oldman


The Schleswig-Holstein was a pre-Dreadnaught battleship that Germany was allowed to retain after WWI. Her value was largely limited to being an effective floating battery. She was visiting Danzig under the guise of being on a diplomatic, "good neighbor" visit. Obviously, this was an easy way to preposition her for firing the first shot of a surprise attack.

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My regards,

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Offline AlphaTwo

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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2002, 01:48:00 AM »
You're all wrong, I fired the first shot of WW2!:eek:
One day I got drunk, took my gun, walked from france trough germany, as I reached the broder of poland I stumbled my gun fell down and fired a shot, boom, I wiped out that country.
Hitler saw all that, he walked up to me, said "Heil du penner"
And kissed me on both cheeks. :eek:
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