One of the most influental person in country,. killed by terrorist
Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Commander S.E. Asia Theatre and, post war, last Viceroy of India. Killed by IRA bomb on his yacht in Ireland in 1979
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you got it man,. have it your go
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A better woman than many men in WWII.
Indeed, a very intriguing task, my dear Mr. Rising Sun. However, I am afraid that we really do need some additional information. You know, at least 18 personalities are on my list right now, and this - otherwise beautiful picture! - was taken… probably in 1925, or 1928. 
So tell us, please, a little bit more about her. You know – Librarians are always problematical people because they are doing everything strictly by the book. 
She was considerably older during WWII.
A major Allied leader said she was masculine.
I’ve been so clever being cryptic that I’ve cleverly concealed a clue which usually is apparent just from a mystery person’s uniform: the side they were on.
She was on the Allied side.
Sounds like a short biography-passage of my late grand-auntie Elsie… You know, when I remember how she looked when she was young and off to Gomorah Falls in the Stearns-Knight back there in 1927 (just look what a radiator cap she made than!), my God – that’s she, there is no doubt of it! 
However, I have to be shure about that. Therefore, tell me, please: was she ever tired of “Just before the Battle, Mother”?
The roof is an unusual place for a radiator cap, or an aunt in the pre-Lyrca (Spandex for Yanks) era, but, given the condsiderable weight of unusually well fed heifers, milkers and oompaloompahs threatening to collapse the chassis and destroy the running board, I’m not suprised that the roof panel was used for cooling. Just when the vehicle was stationary. I wish I could breed stock (chickens, turkeys, pigs, steers, doesn’t matter) with thighs like that. Then again, the methane production must have been fierce.
P.S. There is no clue in the above. Just having a bit of fun at the oompaloompahs’ expense.
Not that I’m aware of.
English wasn’t her first language.
I don’t know if the American Civil War had any significance for her.
She survived the war, but her service wasn’t rewarded and she ended up in reduced circumstances.
I’m not sure what the reference to Root’s song might mean in relation to identifying the mystery woman but, just in case its American heritage might be intended to refer to Eleanor Roosevelt, who was to beauty what gravel is to a rose, no, it’s not her.
There’s a story there which I have to be circumspect in telling as I’ve had a mild rocket from the mods for being a bit rude. So instead of my normal practice of using a well known word for a well known word I’ll conform with the preferred practice of not using a well known word but supplying equally well known asterisks after the introductory letter so that nobody knows what I’m talking about and so that nobody is offended by the well known asterisks following the mysterious initial letter.
Story is apochryphal, related to have happened from Guadalcanal to anywhere north west you like.
Cat calling between American and Japanese troops at night. Japanese yell
“F*** MacArthur!”
Americans reply
“F*** Tojo!” Then Japanese reply
“F*** Roosevelt!” Then the Americans
“F*** the Emperor!”
After a pause the Japanese yell out
“F*** Eleanor Roosevelt!”
Long pause. American voice finally yells out
“No, you f*** her.”
Much laughter on both sides.
…milkers and oompaloompahs threatening to collapse the chassis and destroy the running board…
To destroy that magnificent X-type cross-member frame construction with boxed-up structure, aditionally fully welded to U type cross-members? No way in Hell, my dear Mr. Rising Sun! In those times structural rigidity was obtained by first-grade materials, not with a phosphate-coated bio-degradable 0.62 mm thick cheap scrap-garbage like today! :evil:
I’m not sure what the reference to Root’s song might mean in relation to identifying the mystery woman…
Oh, that was only a tiny personal remark, my dear Mr. Rising Sun. You know, my dear auntie (almost perfectly presented with that photography of yours in age when she was 16!) was descended from the grand-grandpa Jedediah – a founder of the community and the only American Patriot wounded in the Battle of Footly Falls. Reportedly, that song always brought out the nymphe in my dearly beloved auntie – once upon a time a truly wild and utterly free creature. I suppose that it was her body that her husband Horace (he grew up to be a book reviewer!) really wanted, but… that’s a long and delicate story.
However, we have to start with our guessing. Therefore, let me ask another question, my dear Mr. Rising Sun: was she decorated, by any chance?
Not for valour during WWII as far as I’m aware, but she was entitled to wear other decorations.
Well then… perhaps our mysterious hero was Madame Vera Maria Rosenberg – nom de plume Vera Atkins?
Alas, not her, although the mystery woman did leave her own country to spend most of the war in England where she continued to support the resistance in her own country.
Oh, I see… so she was not directly engaged in wartime operations? Well, in that case your heroine is our dearly beloved Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie, known as Queen of Holland. Here you have the very photo. It was taken in 1890.
Oddly enough, that’s where I got my photo from.
Churchill said of her early in the war when there were ructions in the somewhat irresolute Dutch cabinet, composed of men apart from her, that she was the only man in the Dutch cabinet.
Your turn.
This person was sort of famous during WW-2…Can you guess who it is?
Of course, my dear Mr. Herman: sadly unrealized personal love of madam Unity Mitford. But – with all due respect – it is my turn now, therefore please – allow me a proper presentation of our next mysterious military celebrity.
Thank you in advance.
- It’s Librarian’s turn, not yours.
- You left in the alternative text “Name: goebbels.jpg Views: 0 Size: 2.7 KB” which rather gives the game away.
SORRY!!..I didn’t know there was a waiting list for this game. Can I join?..Where do I sign up and when will it be my turn?
…and I put Goebbels to trick you all…cause I knew someone as smart as PDF would be trying to find a backdoor entrance…it is not though…anyways this person is from ww-2 germany as a hint…(Sorry Mr.Librarian for butting in, nobody told me there was a tun list)