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D-Day June 6, 1944

Choose an answer from the three choices and True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

D-Day June 6, 1944 - Trivia powered by ABE.  Did you know...1) What was the code name for the invasion of Europe?

  • Operation Olive
  • Operation Overlord
  • Operation Panda

2) Who commanded the Allied land forces for the invasion?

  • Bernard Montgomery
  • George Patton
  • Milton Bradley

3) Eisenhower had tentatively selected June 5 as the date for the assault.

  • True or False?

4) Standing in the way of the Allies was the English Channel, a crossing which had eluded the Spanish Armada and Napoleon Bonaparte's Navy. Compounding the invasion efforts was the extensive ______ _____, ordered by Hitler in his Directive 51. Fill in the blank.

  • Berlin Fence
  • Atlantic Wall
  • Siegfred Line

5) Just prior to the invasion, General Eisenhower transmitted a now-historic message to all members of the Allied Expeditionary Force. It read, in part, "You are about to embark upon a great _______”. Fill in the blank

  • crusade
  • mission
  • path

6) To help with the invasion, operations were planed the night before to secure locations to delay any German counter offensive. What was this operation?

  • Airborne operations behind beaches
  • Naval bombardment of beaches
  • Broadcast surrender announcements

7) Which is NOT a British beach during D-Day?

  • Tiger
  • Sword
  • Juno

8) What was NOT a American army division that attacked the Omaha Beach?

  • 1st Army Infantry Division
  • 29th Army Infantry Division
  • 352nd Infantry Division

9) What was the massive concrete cliff-top gun emplacement that was the target of the 2nd Ranger battalion?

  • Pointe du Hoc
  • Port au Prince
  • Cherbourg

10) What was the U.S. Army Division that landed on Utah Beach?

  • 2nd Infantry Division
  • 4th Infantry Division
  • 6th Infantry Division

Check Your Answers

  • 1) Operation Overlord
  • 2) Bernard Montgomery
  • 3) True
  • 4) Atlantic Wall
  • 5) crusade
  • 6) Airborne operations behind beaches
  • 7) Tiger
  • 8) 352nd Infantry Division (this is the German Division that the American’s faced.)
  • 9) Pointe du Hoc
  • 10) 4th Infantry Division

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