Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Allied codename for the Battle of Normandy | Operation Overlord | 85%
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Supreme Allied Commander | General Dwight Eisenhower | 77%
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Landing beach where US forces suffered heavy losses | Omaha Beach | 69%
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German fortifications along the French coast built to repel the invasion | Atlantic Wall | 65%
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Overall commander of the Allied ground forces during D-Day | General Bernard Montgomery | 65%
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Main Canadian landing beach | Juno Beach | 62%
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General who supervised the Axis defence of the French coast from the invasion threat | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel | 54%
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Date and year of D-Day | 6th June, 1944 | 52%
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Primary American tank used in the invasion | M4 Sherman | 52%
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Name of the 1998 Steven Spielberg film based around D-Day | Saving Private Ryan | 50%
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Eldest son of the 26th US President who was the first senior officer ashore at Utah Beach | Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jnr | 48%
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Primary German tank during the invasion | Panzer Mark IV | 42%
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City that was identified as a vital objective for troops on Sword and Juno Beaches | Caen | 38%
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Commander of the US First Army during D-Day, the "GI's General" | General Omar Bradley | 38%
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Bridge captured during that assault^ | Pegasus Bridge | 38%
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Signalling device used by the 101st US Airborne Division to communicate in enemy territory | Cricket | 35%
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Amphibious swimming tank that was a variant of the above^ | DD "Duplex Drive" Tank | 35%
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7.62mm American semi-automatic rifle used extensively during the invasion | M1 Garand | 35%
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Primary British tank used in the invasion | Churchill MkVII | 33%
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Prominent headland assaulted by the US 2nd Ranger Battalion | Pointe du Hoc | 33%
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American historian and biographer who wrote "Band of Brothers" and an account of D-Day | Stephen E. Ambrose | 33%
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9mm British submachine gun used extensively during the invasion | Sten Gun | 31%
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First French City liberated, home of a famous tapestry | Bayeux | 29%
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11.43mm American submachine gun used extensively during the invasion | Thompson M1A1 | 29%
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Explosive charge used to force gaps in the barbed wire at Omaha | Bangalore Torpedo | 27%
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Artificial port set up on Gold and Omaha Beaches | Mulberry Harbour | 27%
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Allied deception plan that involved mobilising fake armies and inflatable tanks | Operation Fortitude | 27%
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Primary transport aircraft of the Airborne Landings | Douglas C-47 Skytrain "Dakota" | 25%
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What the letters G.I. stood for | Government Issue/Galvanised Iron | 23%
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English seaside town where the Supreme Allied Commander sited his HQ | Portsmouth | 23%
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British beach where over 900 Allied troops died during an invasion rehearsal | Slapton Sands | 23%
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Nickname given to the LCVP Landing Craft used in the invasion | Higgins Boat | 21%
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British officer who led the Glider assault | Major John Howard | 19%
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Strategic peninsular that needed to be secured to link the Utah and Omaha invasion enclaves | Cotentin Peninsular | 17%
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Characteristic terrain of Western Normandy that hampered US troops as they forged inland | Bocage | 15%
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Nickname given to the specially modified tanks used by British forces | Hobart's Funnies | 15%
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British senior officer who brought his personal piper with him when he landed at Sword Beach | Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat | 13%
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Supreme Commander of the German Army in the West (OB West) | Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt | 12%
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Spanish double agent who played a leading role in decieving the Germans about where the invasion would happen | Juan Pujol Garcia "Garbo" | 12%
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The name of that piper, who marched up Sword Beach playing his bagpipes in the face of enemy fire | Private Bill Millin | 12%
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American photographer and journalist who landed with the second wave of troops at Omaha Beach | Robert Capa | 12%
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Town on Gold Beach where one of the artificial ports was constructed | Arromanches-les-Bains | 10%
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Commander of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in that assault^ | Lieutenant Colonel James Rudder | 10%
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Fortification threatening Sword Beach that was a primary target for the British 9th Parachute Battalion | Merville Gun Battery | 10%
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Actor who portrayed ^ this officer in "The Longest Day" and was himself part of the real Glider assault | Richard Todd | 10%
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US Parachute Regiment CO whose troops defended the town of St Mere Eglise | Colonel Benjamin H Vandervoort | 8%
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Canadian Star Trek actor who was a Lieutenant and fought at Juno Beach | James Doohan | 8%
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First Allied soldier to be killed, during the Glider assault | Lieutenant Herbert 'Den' Brotheridge | 8%
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Operational name of the British Glider assault on the Orne River and Caen Canal | Operation Deadstick | 8%
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First French village liberated on D-Day | Ranville | 8%
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French commune above Omaha Beach | Vierville-sur-Mer | 8%
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Overall commander of Allied Naval Operations | Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay | 6%
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American writer who landed and saw combat at Utah Beach | J D Salinger | 6%
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Deputy Supreme Allied Commander | Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder | 4%
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Free French Commando leader who landed his troops at Sword Beach | Captain Philippe Kieffer | 4%
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Town near Juno Beach liberated by the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada | Bernieres-sur-Mer | 2%
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Royal Navy Beach Master at Juno Beach | Captain Colin Maud | 2%
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First American soldier to come ashore from a landing craft on D-Day | Captain Leonard T. Schroeder | 2%
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Airfield that was a primary capture target of the forces that landed on Juno Beach | Carpiquet Airfield | 2%
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Commander of the main British and Canadian armies during D-Day | General Sir Miles Dempsey | 2%
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British Royal Navy Light Cruiser that bombarded Gold Beach prior to the landings | HMS Ajax | 2%
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