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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Healing Wounds and Scrubbed Missions: Aldbourne: July 13-September 16, 1944.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the Army-planned a practice operation on a stretch of English coastline in preparation for D-Day?
(a) The Jaguar strike.
(b) Operation Osprey.
(c) Exercise Tiger.
(d) Operation Lynx.

2. In the battle at Carentan, supporting troops from Fox Company and what company fell back from the front lines?
(a) Walrus Company.
(b) Turtle Company.
(c) Cat Company.
(d) Dog Company.

3. What refers to the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon, as bombs or rockets, and especially shot, shrapnel, bullets, or shells fired by guns?
(a) Bullets.
(b) Artillery.
(c) Shrapnel.
(d) Ammunition.

4. What were the men served a large meal of before being ordered to run up Mount Currahee in Chapter One, "We Wanted Those Wings: Camp Toccoa: July-December 1942"?
(a) Fish and chips.
(b) Steak and potatoes.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Cheeseburgers.

5. Growing dissatisfaction with Sobel's lack of tactical skill made some officers consider approaching who about the problem in Chapter Three, "Duties of the Latrine Orderly: Aldbourne: September 1943-March 1944"?
(a) Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Strayer.
(b) Colonel Sink.
(c) Major Clarence Hester.
(d) Major Oliver M. Horton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a court consisting of military or naval personnel appointed by a commander to try charges of offenses by soldiers or sailors against military or naval law?

2. In Chapter Five, "Follow Me: Normandy, June 6, 1944," the troops landed amidst confusion and were scattered over an area how large?

3. Who was the 2nd Lieutenant of the Easy Company in Chapter One, "We Wanted Those Wings: Camp Toccoa: July-December 1942"?

4. The men of Easy Company traveled to where, which was eighty miles west of London, in September, 1943?

5. What was the name of the base where the 506th Regiment trained in Chapter One, "We Wanted Those Wings: Camp Toccoa: July-December 1942"?

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