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Hint	Hint	Answer	% Correct
R	First commander of the Afrika Korps; committed suicide in 1944 , nicknamed the Desert fox.	Rommel	86%
N	Location of the post-war military tribunals that prosecuted alleged Nazi war criminals	Nuremburg	81%
A	Largest network of Nazi Concentration camp; liberated by the Soviets in January of 1945	Auschwitz	78%
B	Operation code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941	Barbarossa	78%
P	Generic term used to describe German tanks and armor	Panzer	78%
E	Name given to the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima	Enola Gay	75%
W	Site of the largest Jewish ghetto in Europe	Warsaw	75%
C	Mediterranean island invaded by German airborne troops in May of 1941	Crete	72%
I	Sight of the first amphibious battle of the Pacific war where American casualties exceeded those of the Japanese	Iwo Jima	64%
V	Seat of the Pétain collaborationist government in France from 1940 - 1944	Vichy	64%
F	Official nickname of the B-17; nearly 13,000 built during the war	Flying Fortress	50%
J	Normandy Invasion beach primarily assaulted by Canadian troops on June 6th, 1944	Juno Beach	50%
O	Code name of the 1944 Normandy invasion	Operation Overlord	47%
Y	Japanese Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet; present at Pearl Harbor and Midway	Yamamoto	47%
G	island site of the first major Allied offensive in the Pacific	Guadalcanal	44%
Q	Head of the collaborationist government in Norway; executed for treason in 1945	Quisling	42%
K	Site of the last German strategic offensive on the Eastern Front and largest tank battle in history	Kursk	39%
T	Libyan port city besieged by Axis forces for 241 days in 1941; successfully relieved by the British Eighth Army during Operation Crusader	Tobruk	36%
Z	Most highly decorated general officer in Soviet history; present for the signing of the German instrument of surrender	Zhukov	36%
H	RAF fighter that accounted for 55% of all German losses during the Battle of Britain	Hawker Hurricane	33%
D	Location of the August 1942 Allied amphibious assault on occupied France	Dieppe	31%
L	Largest naval battle of the war; fought near the Philippines from October 23-26th, 1944	Leyte Gulf	17%
M	Japanese puppet state that existed in Northern China from 1932 - 1945	Manchukuo	14%
S	Mountain on which six U.S. Marines famously raised the American Flag on February 23rd, 1945	Suribachi	14%
U	Codename for the British military intelligence obtained by breaking encrypted enemy communications	ULTRA	14%
X	Designator of the first class of the German elektroboats to become operational	XXIII	3%