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Questions:

1. What was FIDO?

2. Which barbarian chieftain sacked Rome in 410 AD?


Answers:


1. Not sure about this I guess as they're all military history questions it could be: Mark 24 Mine, code-named FIDO, a U.S. acoustic homing torpedo used during World War II but really not sure, and am a bit drowning in advents to give it a proper search!!



2. Alaric I

onetreehillgrrl

It is another chapter in the story of the Battle of Oil. In the early days of wartime experiment, when the experts prophesied failure, the code name "Fido" was derived from the initial letters of "Fog Investigation Dispersal Operations". When the apparatus proved a brilliant success, the R.A.F. Retained the code name and fitted it to "Fog Intensive Dispersal Of".

Full article here from war illustrated

http://www.thewarillustrated.info/210/now-it-can-be-told-operation-fido-beating-airfield-fog.asp

eta: Cover, I am not saying this is the right answer, just another option