A) No.11 Independent Company B) No. 3 Commando C) No. 6 Commando D) The Royal Marines
A) Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke B) Major-General Robert Laycock C) Winston Churchill D) Major Ronnie Tod
A) Norway B) Guernsey C) St Nazaire D) French coast
A) No British soldiers were injured B) Robert Laycock C) Ronnie Tod D) Dudley Clarke
A) 14 July 1944 B) 23 June 1940 C) 14 July 1940 D) 23 June 1944
A) Only No. 11 Independent Company B) No. 3 Commando and No. 11 Independent Company C) No. 3 Commando and No. 6 Commando D) No. 6 Commando and No. 11 Independent Company
A) The barracks were destroyed B) It was a false alarm C) The buildings were empty D) It was heavily defended
A) Operation Gauntlet B) Operation J V C) Operation Collar D) Operation Ambassador
A) Operation Aquatint B) Operation Chariot C) Operation Jubilee D) Operation Gauntlet
A) 5,000 B) 1,000 C) 10,500 D) 100
A) 36 B) 57 C) 7 D) 12
A) 12 B) 36 C) 7 D) 57
A) 57 B) 7 C) 36 D) 12
A) Operation Chariot B) Operation Collar C) Operation Aquatint D) Operation Jubilee
A) Operation Ambassador B) Operation Collar C) Operation Chariot D) Operation Aquatint
A) Robert Laycock B) Dudley Clarke C) Winston Churchill D) Ronnie Tod
A) The units were needed elsewhere B) Germans were strengthening beach defences C) Lack of manpower D) The war was ending
A) The War Office B) Brigadier Charles Haydon C) Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Vaughan D) The unit commanding officers
A) Strict rationing policies B) Losses in the Middle East C) Equipment was left behind at Dunkirk D) Lack of manufacturing capacity
A) Braemar B) London C) Spean Bridge D) Achnacarry
A) Brigadier Charles Haydon B) John Hunt C) Frank Smythe D) Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Vaughan
A) Brigadier Charles Haydon B) Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Vaughan C) Squadron Leader Frank Smythe D) Major John Hunt
A) 8 miles B) 12 miles C) 20 miles D) 5 miles
A) Returned to unit B) Discharged immediately C) Relegated to reserve D) Demoted in rank
A) Training B) Live C) Simulated D) Blank
A) A zip-line B) A small boat C) A rope bridge D) A swimming exercise
A) Braemar B) Loch Arkaig C) Spean Bridge D) Achnacarry
A) Charles Vaughan B) Charles Haydon C) Frank Smythe D) John Hunt
A) Charles Vaughan B) Charles Haydon C) John Hunt D) Frank Smythe
A) Coastal raids B) Desert combat C) Arctic conditions D) Urban warfare
A) Concentration on the assault infantry role B) Abandoning all joint training exercises C) Focusing on purely raiding operations D) Reducing physical fitness requirements
A) Calling for naval gunfire support B) Deep sea diving C) Long-range sniper tactics D) Intelligence gathering
A) 5,000 B) 10,000 C) 50,000 D) 25,000
A) Marines B) Airborne infantry C) Green Berets D) Army Rangers
A) Knowledge of map reading B) Officer status C) Physical fitness D) Prior military combat experience
A) Parachute operations B) Intelligence gathering C) Airfield construction D) Amphibious beachhead control
A) Ten B) Eight C) Nine D) Seven
A) Small Scale Raiding Force B) Middle East Commando C) Miscellaneous Troop D) Inter-Allied Commando
A) Special Air Service B) Royal Air Force C) Royal Marines D) Special Operations Executive
A) Miscellaneous Troop B) Guards Troop C) Arctic Troop D) Inter-Allied Troop
A) Ten B) Eight C) Four D) Six
A) Intelligence gathering B) Control of beachheads C) Parachute operations D) Airfield defense
A) 100 B) 30 C) 65 D) 50
A) Intelligence gathering B) Make airfields operational C) Safe cracking D) Small boat attacks
A) Special Air Service B) Small Scale Raiding Force C) Royal Naval Commandos D) Miscellaneous Troop
A) Fernando Po B) The Arctic Circle C) Germany D) The Middle East
A) Neville Chamberlain B) Winston Churchill C) Clement Attlee D) David Lloyd George
A) Provide logistics for the main army B) Carry out raids against German-occupied Europe C) Capture enemy leaders D) Defend the British coastline only
A) 100 B) 250 C) 450 D) 1,000
A) Roger Keyes B) John Dill C) Louis Mountbatten D) Robert Laycock
A) Royal Navy B) British Army C) Royal Air Force D) Royal Marines
A) 20-man B) 15-man C) 5-man D) 10-man
A) Three B) Five C) Four D) Six
A) 10 B) 15 C) 7 D) 20
A) 17 B) 12 C) 14 D) 20
A) December 1944 B) December 1943 C) June 1944 D) January 1943
A) Fifteen B) Three C) Seven D) Ten
A) 1942 B) 1941 C) 1944 D) 1943
A) Lee–Enfield rifle B) Lee–Metford rifle C) Ross rifle D) M1 Garand
A) Vickers machine gun B) Sten gun C) Lewis gun D) Bren light machine gun
A) Thompson B) Sten gun C) MP40 D) Owen gun
A) Colt 45 pistol B) Luger P08 C) Webley Revolver D) Browning Hi-Power
A) Colt 45 pistol B) Browning Hi-Power C) Webley Automatic D) Walther P38
A) De Lisle carbine B) Sten gun C) Thompson submachine gun D) Browning Hi-Power
A) Folding stock B) Silencer C) Scope D) Bayonet mount
A) Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife B) Mark I trench knife C) BC-41 D) Kukri
A) 3-inch mortar B) 2-inch mortar C) PIAT D) Vickers machine gun
A) Tam O'Shanter B) Bush hat C) Beret D) Steel helmet
A) Tam O'Shanter B) Woollen cap comforter C) Green beret D) Bush hat
A) 1941 B) 1943 C) 1940 D) 1942
A) Tam O'Shanter B) Bush hat C) Woollen cap comforter D) Green beret
A) Jackboots B) Leather hiking boots C) Heavy ammunition boots D) Rubber soled gym shoes
A) Inflatable lifebelt B) Grappling hook C) Toggle rope D) Demolition cable
A) Denison pack B) Canvas haversack C) Bergan rucksack D) Pattern 37 rucksack
A) Bush jacket B) Denison smock C) SAS smock D) Battle jerkin
A) March 1941 B) April 1943 C) December 1941 D) September 1942
A) 30,000 B) 370,000 C) 11 D) 216
A) German shipping near Haugesund B) Glomfjord hydroelectric power plant C) Vågsøy Island factories D) Lofoten Islands petrol dumps
A) By airplane B) By parachute C) By submarine D) By motor torpedo boats
A) They were captured again B) They returned to the UK via submarine C) They reached Sweden D) They were executed at Bergen-Belsen
A) 30,000 men B) 18,347 men C) 370,000 men D) 216 men
A) Glomfjord B) Lofoten Islands C) Haugesund D) Vågsøy Island
A) Sark B) Guernsey C) Jersey D) Herm
A) 12 B) 200 C) 50 D) 140
A) Communication radios B) German codebooks C) Artillery pieces D) Maps of France
A) Guernsey B) Herm C) Alderney D) Sark
A) Guernsey B) Sark C) Herm D) Jersey
A) Twelve B) Two C) Seven D) Four
A) Alderney B) Jersey C) Herm D) Sark
A) Operation Dryad B) Operation Basalt C) Hardtack 7 D) Hardtack 28
A) The island was deserted B) They lost their codebooks C) They could not scale the cliffs D) The team walked into a minefield
A) Crete B) Sicily C) Rhodes D) Cyprus
A) Italian army B) Afrika Korps C) French Vichy forces D) German Luftwaffe
A) Naval bombardment B) Covering the withdrawal route C) Offensive assault D) Parachute drop
A) Algiers B) Sphakia C) Rhodes D) Bardia
A) 1000 B) 179 C) 800 D) 600
A) 600 B) 221 C) 800 D) 179
A) Merged with the SAS B) Renamed to 2nd Commando Brigade C) Disbanded D) Sent to the Pacific
A) Sedjenane B) Crete C) Sicily D) Bardia
A) Thomas Peck Hunter B) Winston Churchill C) Bernard Montgomery D) Anders Lassen |