Normandy landings - Quiz
A) Operation Bodyguard B) Operation Pointblank C) Operation Neptune D) Operation Overlord
A) Operation Pointblank B) Operation Bodyguard C) Operation Overlord D) Operation Neptune
A) To destroy coastal bunkers B) To gain air superiority C) To assist paratroopers D) To sink German naval vessels
A) To protect the Orne bridges B) To capture the Cotentin Peninsula C) To supply fuel to Allied troops D) To deceive the Germans regarding the timing and location of the invasion
A) Near Avranches B) Near Cherbourg C) Near the River Seine D) Near Caen
A) Sword and Gold B) Juno and Band C) Utah and Omaha D) Sword and Juno
A) Juno and Utah B) Omaha and Band C) Utah and Omaha D) Sword and Gold
A) Juno B) Sword C) Omaha D) Utah
A) Avranches and Falaise B) Cherbourg and the River Seine C) Caen and the River Orne D) Carentan and Saint-Lô
A) Capture Cherbourg B) Capture Caen C) Capture the River Orne D) Capture the River Seine
A) Band B) Gold C) Juno D) Sword
A) Six months B) Three weeks C) Ninety days D) One week
A) Six months B) One year C) Three weeks D) Ninety days
A) The River Seine B) The Orne bridges C) The Avranches-Falaise line D) The Cotentin Peninsula
A) German coastal artillery and infantry B) German aircraft production, fuel, and airfields C) German communications and rail networks D) German tank factories and submarine pens
A) 1 May 1944 B) 6 July 1944 C) 6 June 1944 D) 6 June 1943
A) Heinrich Himmler B) Hermann Göring C) Adolf Hitler D) Erwin Rommel
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt B) Dwight D. Eisenhower C) Bernard Montgomery D) Ernest King
A) Five B) Six C) Three D) Four
A) 6 June B) 21 July C) 1 July D) 12 June
A) 12,000 B) 50,000 C) 24,000 D) 10,000
A) German intelligence B) Unfavorable weather C) Communication failures D) Lack of landing craft
A) 4,414 B) 2,000 C) 9,000 D) 10,000
A) George Patton B) Dwight D. Eisenhower C) Bernard Montgomery D) Ernest King
A) Normandy Tanks B) Atlantic Wall Crushers C) Hobart's Funnies D) Overlord Tanks
A) 08:30 B) Midnight C) 04:00 D) c. 06:30
A) 21 July B) 12 June C) 1 May D) 6 June
A) Yalta Conference B) Tehran Conference C) Trident Conference D) Quebec Conference
A) Using captured German ports B) Artificial Mulberry harbours C) Aerial supply drops D) Utilizing small river barges
A) Operation Bodyguard B) Fortitude North C) Fortitude South D) Operation Taxable
A) George S. Patton B) Dwight D. Eisenhower C) Erwin Rommel D) James Stagg
A) Le Havre B) Calais C) Normandy D) Norway
A) Metal foil B) Smoke bombs C) Barrage balloons D) Dummy paratroopers
A) No. 218 Squadron RAF B) No. 617 Squadron RAF C) No. 101 Squadron RAF D) No. 505 Squadron RAF
A) Erwin Rommel B) James Stagg C) Dwight D. Eisenhower D) George S. Patton
A) A major storm would have made landings impossible B) The moon phase would have been perfect C) The Allies would have lost all fuel supplies D) The Germans would have reinforced Normandy
A) Patrolling the Normandy coast B) Defending the Calais area C) Attending war games in Rennes D) Attending a conference in Berlin
A) Eighteen B) Seven C) Fifteen D) Fifty
A) SS Divisions B) Infantry Brigades C) Panzer Corps D) Ostlegionen
A) Unreliable captured equipment B) Outdated uniforms C) Lack of ammunition D) Lack of training manuals
A) Army Group B B) OB West C) 7th Army D) LXXXIV Corps
A) II SS Panzer Corps B) 1st Panzer Division C) 116th Panzer Division D) I SS Panzer Corps
A) 45,827 B) 363 C) 507 D) 349
A) 363 B) 18 C) 50 D) 45,827
A) Two B) Seven C) Fifty D) Fifteen
A) Adolf Hitler B) Friedrich Dollmann C) Erwin Rommel D) Gerd von Rundstedt
A) Erich Marcks B) Gerd von Rundstedt C) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg D) Friedrich Dollmann
A) Gerd von Rundstedt B) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg C) Friedrich Dollmann D) Erich Marcks
A) Erich Marcks B) Friedrich Dollmann C) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg D) Erwin Rommel
A) Erich Marcks B) Gerd von Rundstedt C) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg D) Friedrich Dollmann
A) Army Group A B) Army Group Center C) Army Group North D) Army Group B
A) Normandy Asparagus B) Beach Defenses C) Atlantic Wall D) Rommelspargel
A) 2,000 vs 8,000 B) 500 vs 10,000 C) 815 vs 9,543 D) 1,000 vs 5,000
A) Italian Campaign B) Soviet Campaign C) North African Campaign D) French Campaign
A) Bernard Montgomery B) Omar Bradley C) Percy Hobart D) Miles Dempsey
A) 73,000 B) 83,115 C) 61,715 D) 15,600
A) Dwight D. Eisenhower B) Miles Dempsey C) Omar Bradley D) Percy Hobart
A) 15,600 B) 73,000 C) 83,115 D) 61,715
A) 61,715 B) 83,115 C) 73,000 D) 15,600
A) Three-quarters B) Two-thirds C) One-quarter D) One-half
A) Bernard Montgomery B) Percy Hobart C) Miles Dempsey D) Omar Bradley
A) Provided naval bombardment B) Provided specialist armoured vehicles C) Commanded the Second Army D) Provided airborne infantry
A) Royal Air Force Intelligence B) United States Office of Strategic Services C) British Special Operations Executive D) French Resistance Headquarters
A) Plan Tortue B) Plan Bleu C) Plan Vert D) Plan Violet
A) Cutting telephone cables B) Destroying electrical facilities C) Delaying enemy reinforcements D) Sabotaging the rail system
A) Plan Violet B) Plan Vert C) Plan Bleu D) Plan Tortue
A) Coded telegrams via the Red Cross B) Parachuted physical documents C) Direct radio broadcasts from the battlefield D) Messages personnels via the BBC
A) They did not have the capability to monitor the radio B) They had received many previous false warnings C) They believed the radio signals were a distraction D) The messages were too difficult to decode
A) 100 B) 52 C) 25 D) 500
A) Correlli Barnett B) Alan G. Kirk C) Sir Philip Vian D) Sir Bertram Ramsay
A) Canada B) UK C) France D) USA
A) Sir Philip Vian B) Sir Bertram Ramsay C) Correlli Barnett D) Alan G. Kirk
A) Correlli Barnett B) Sir Bertram Ramsay C) Alan G. Kirk D) Sir Philip Vian
A) 52,889 B) 112,824 C) 25,000 D) 195,700
A) 05:50 B) 06:30 C) 05:10 D) 05:45
A) HNoMS Svenner B) USS PC-1261 C) USS Corry D) HMS Warspite
A) Returned to Le Havre port B) Fled into a smoke screen C) Surrendered to the Allies D) Sank into the ocean
A) USS Corry B) USS PC-1261 C) USS Nevada D) USS Arkansas
A) Cruiser B) Monitor C) Battleship D) Submarine chaser
A) 964 B) More than 5,000 C) More than 2,200 D) Exactly 570
A) Lack of fuel B) Anti-aircraft fire C) Low cloud cover D) Wrong target coordinates
A) 1,500 B) 570 C) 964 D) 2,200
A) At midnight B) At 06:30 C) At 05:10 D) Just after dawn
A) HMS Ramillies B) USS Nevada C) HNoMS Svenner D) HMS Roberts
A) 05:45 B) 05:50 C) 05:10 D) 06:30
A) 10 minutes B) 2 hours C) 1 hour D) About 40 minutes
A) Nothing, they were clean-shaven B) Camouflage paint C) Mud D) Cocoa
A) Douglas C-47 Skytrains B) Lockheed C-130 Hercules C) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses D) Douglas C-54 Skymasters
A) Caen B) Sainte-Mère-Église C) The Dives D) Merville
A) Approximately one half B) Nearly all C) Less than ten percent D) Approximately one third
A) 00:15 B) 04:00 C) 02:00 D) 01:20
A) 5th Parachute Brigade B) 3rd Parachute Brigade C) 1st Special Service Brigade D) 6th Airlanding Brigade
A) The 716th Infantry Division commander B) Richard Gale C) Terence Otway D) Feuchtinger
A) The British 6th Airborne B) The Merville battery commander C) OKW D) The 716th Infantry Division
A) 200 B) 75 C) 600 D) 160
A) Terence Otway B) Richard Gale C) Feuchtinger D) No commander mentioned
A) 100 mm guns B) 50 mm guns C) 150 mm guns D) 75 mm guns
A) 600 B) 160 C) 75 D) 500
A) 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion B) 1st Special Service Brigade C) Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry D) 5th Parachute Brigade
A) 352nd Infantry Division B) 743rd Tank Battalion C) 919th Grenadier Regiment D) 914th Grenadier Regiment |
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