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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does RAF stand for?
(a) Radar Aerial Freighter.
(b) Royal Aeiral Force.
(c) Radar Air Freight.
(d) Royal Air Force.

2. The ME-262's are to be known as what?
(a) Spy planes.
(b) Fighter jets.
(c) Blitz-bombers.
(d) Troop carriers.

3. Who is Tetty, one of the best sub-agents, who is stealing oil from the Germans?
(a) A seventy-seven-year-old woman.
(b) An eighty-year-old man.
(c) A sixteen-year-old girl.
(d) A ten-year-old boy.

4. What is the code name for the Allies' elaborate plan to fool the Germans about D-Day?
(a) Overkill.
(b) Normandy.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Ultra.

5. The area on the French coast between the beach and the bluffs was called the ___________.
(a) Shoal.
(b) Shingle.
(c) Shore.
(d) Scuttle.

6. Who is a master of sabotage against the Germans?
(a) Polish POWs.
(b) American spies.
(c) Jewish prisoners.
(d) French Resistance.

7. What does the French girl leading Maj. A. J. C. Rosevear and his team to the bridges want them to blow up instead?
(a) German headquarters.
(b) Polish POWs.
(c) A church.
(d) A tank.

8. The navy refers to "crafts" as being under _________ feet and "ships" as being anything over that.
(a) 400.
(b) 300.
(c) 500.
(d) 200.

9. How many days after D-Day does Germany's premier tank division arrive at the French coast?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 17.
(d) 13.

10. What are the "Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel" (LCVP) also known as?
(a) Safety Boats.
(b) U Boats.
(c) Omaha Boats.
(d) Eureka Boats.

11. What is the name of the commander who wants the paratroopers to be utilized better during the war?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Montgomery.

12. What do the bomber pilots think is Hitler's "secret weapon"?
(a) Low lying wires.
(b) Snipers.
(c) Bombs.
(d) Clouds.

13. Where do Roosevelt and Churchill meet with Stalin in 1943?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Tehran.
(d) Washington D.C.

14. What is the code name for the Germans' elaborate deception to fool the Russians in 1942?
(a) Stalingrade.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Ziemke.
(d) Kreml.

15. Where is the most extensive Assault Training Center?
(a) Woolacombe.
(b) Slapton Sands.
(c) Sandhurst.
(d) West Point.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are B-17s known as?

2. Where is the soldier from who forgets his name when asked by Eisenhower?

3. What is the name of the command group in charge of planning D-Day?

4. What are the best of the young German recruits called?

5. At what hour on June 4 does Eisenhower give the order to proceed with the invasion?

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