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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What aspect of command played an important part in the Axis' stalling operation OCHSENKOPF?
2. What percentage of Panzers taking part of OCHSENKOPF were either destroyed or disabled?
3. Rommel coined the phrase "Krieg ohne Hass" regarding the two years of war in the desert. What does it mean?
4. Patton's II Corps had reached 88,473 men, the author notes that this is exactly the same size as what other American force?
5. Combat exhaustion claimed what portion of casualties?
Short Essay Questions
1. Characteristic of his history of fighting half measures, what command objective did Fredendall insert in Ward's attack plan on Maknassy pass? And how was it answered by Arnim?
2. What was the goal of operation SATIN?
3. Why was Fredendall's defense plan for Faid Pass considered a World War I defense?
4. General Sir Alan Brooke, is characterized as one of the great generals of the war. But what tragedy in 1925 changed his charmed life and what permanent effects did it have?
5. Rather than focusing on Faid Pass, to what area did Fredendall unsoundly direct the Allied efforts?
6. What was the first administrative struggle Patton faced when taking over II Corps?
7. What character trait made Robinett a difficult officer to command?
8. How was Longstop positioned so that it represented a strategic point?
9. What effect did the War in North Africa have on the American city of Red Oak?
10. What prescient claim of General 'Santa Clause' Everlegh's would turn out to be true, but not in the way he had hoped?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what ways did Axis command tamper with Rommels planned attack on Tebessa? Had the plan been executed according to Rommel's original scheme what would have been the possible consequences?
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 1, the planning for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa is described. A major piece of the planning was deciding on the location of the landings. Describe the perils of landing too far to the West, versus the perils of landing too far to the East. Contrast this plan with operation Sledgehammer, which the American's first suggested.
Essay Topic 3
How were operations OCHSENKOPF and CAPRI an important turning point in the war? How did the quartermasters help determine this turning point?
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