1940s War & Battles History Guesser

What war & battles looked like in the 1940s

Landing craft, convoys, bomb-damaged streets and huge armies in camouflage mark the Second World War.

Read the vehicles and the helmets to narrow down the side, and the ruins to judge how late in the war you are.

1940s moments in the game

• Sinking of the Cruiser Blücher1940
• Launch of the Yamato Battleship1940
• Evacuation of the Dunkirk Beaches1940
• Defense of Brest Fortress Against Nazi Invasion1941
• Camouflaging the Taj Mahal1942
• Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague1942
• Prisoners Break Out of Sobibor1943
• Battle of Kasserine Pass1943
• Heavy Water Sabotage at Vemork1943
• B-24 Bombers Strike the Ploiești Oil Fields1943
• Casablanca Conference at Hotel Anfa1943
• Construction of the Burma Railway Bridge1943

Dating a war & battles scene

Weapons

Spears and shields are ancient or medieval; pikes and early guns 1500–1700; neat ranks of muskets 1700–1850; machine guns and barbed wire from 1914.

Uniforms

Bright coats and tall hats mean the age of muskets. Khaki and field grey arrive around 1900–1915; camouflage patterns are mostly after 1940.

Fortifications

Tall thin stone walls are medieval. Low angled star forts answer cannon from the 1500s. Concrete bunkers belong to the 20th century.

Machines

Horses and wooden ships before 1850; ironclads and railways after; tanks from 1916, aircraft overhead from the First World War onward.

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