History Challenge & Journal

[kalbow]

There's a fat boy in there somewhere

Pillsbury Company?

[PeteC]

Harley-Davidson. Pete

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson

[dtaai-maai]

Nice try, kalbow but Pete gets the case of stale Chang.

[PeteC]

Nice try, kalbow but Pete gets the case of stale Chang.

San Miguel Pale Lager please. The "fatboy' clue gave it away. Pete

[kalbow]

Nice try, kalbow but Pete gets the case of stale Chang.

San Miguel Pale Lager please. The "fatboy' clue gave it away. Pete

Fatboy + Harley D's? I don't get it

[Jimbob]

Nice try, kalbow but Pete gets the case of stale Chang.

San Miguel Pale Lager please. The "fatboy' clue gave it away. Pete

Fatboy + Harley D's? I don't get it

in 1990, with the introduction of the "Fat Boy", Harley once again became the sales leader in the heavyweight (over 750 cc) market. At the time of the Fat Boy model introduction a story rapidly spread that its silver paint job and other features were inspired by the World War II American B-29 bomber; and that the Fat Boy name was a combination of the names of the atomic bombs (Fat Man and Little Boy) that were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima respectively. However, the Urban Legend Reference Pages lists this story as an urban legend

Just for a certain breed of rider

[STEVE G]

Now I can see the connection with the 'Adolf Hitler' style haircuts; Harley-Davidson is from Milwaukee!

[Spitfire]

OK, I'll have a pop at this.

At which battle in WWII was this document issued to accompany a medal, to who......and for what?

Medal document.jpeg (8.63 KiB) Viewed 409 times

If there are no takers after a day or two then I'll post the pic of the medal.

Edit - With hindsight, perhaps better to post the medal (one side of it) to give a chance of getting it right........

[Bamboo Grove]

It says Stalingrad in the document so must be the battle of that city.

[Spitfire]

C'mon BG, you're the multi-lingual mod, guess you read Russky too man.

Yes, correct, for valour and the defence of that city.

I was hoping those that were fluent in Russian weren't going to post, forgot about you though. Ah well, next time.

[Bamboo Grove]

Spitfire, I basically know the Russian alphabets and a few words, that's it and no more. Must be because I was born only 20 miles from the boarder.

[migrant]

I seem to remember a medal, but the name is vague

"Order of Lenin" pops to mind, perhaps a starting point for others

[Norseman]

This is a medal for the defense of Stalingrad. Or Медаль За оборону Сталинграда if you will.
A turning point of WW2 and the beginning of the end for the Nazi regime.

[sandman67]

Yup...its the Medal For The Defence Of Stalingrad awarded to all veterans of the battle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_for_ ... Stalingrad

as to the to who and for what

is it the medal awarded to Vasily Zaytsev (along with a new sniper rifle and scope)?

Or is it the medal awarded to a young (ish) Nikita "Niki The Farmer" Kruschev who was the general in charge of the defence?

Cant see the name on the certificate clearly enough to read who it refers to.

[Spitfire]

.....as to the to who and for what

is it the medal awarded to Vasily Zaytsev (along with a new sniper rifle and scope)?

Or is it the medal awarded to a young (ish) Nikita "Niki The Farmer" Kruschev who was the general in charge of the defence?

You could be right there SM67, often they keep documents like this of the famous/heroic. Regarding Zaytsev's original sniper rifle, it's still on display in the Russian war museum in.....I think.....Moscow, could be another city though.