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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what hour on June 4 does Eisenhower give the order to proceed with the invasion?
(a) 0300.
(b) 2315.
(c) 2145.
(d) 2030.

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

3. What does the SHAEF stand for?
(a) Strategy Handling Allied Executive Force.
(b) Strategy Handling Allied Expeditionary Force.
(c) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.
(d) Supreme Headquarters Allied Executive Force.

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

5. How many infantry divisions does Germany have in France when they first meet the Allies on the French coast?
(a) 10 divisions,
(b) 50 divisions.
(c) 5 divisions.
(d) 30 divisions.

6. What does SOS stand for?
(a) Save Our Ships.
(b) Service of Ships.
(c) Services of Supply.
(d) Supply or Services.

7. Who is praised by Eisenhower as "the man who won the war for us"?
(a) Henry Ransom Paulding.
(b) Andrew Jackson Higgins.
(c) James Clark Wilson.
(d) William Rockefeller.

8. Which American general is used as a decoy to fool the Germans about the location of D-Day?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Patton.
(d) Eisenhower.

9. What is the name for the German navy?
(a) Wehrmacht.
(b) Waffen.
(c) Kriegsmarine.
(d) Gestapo.

10. What are the Vergeltungswaffen?
(a) Spies.
(b) Tanks.
(c) Vengeance weapons.
(d) Elite troops.

11. Who does Capt. George Lane meet with when he is captured by the Germans when he is doing reconnaissance on mines?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Jodl.
(c) Gestapo.
(d) Rommel.

12. The Germans have an elite tank division, but lack the ______to sustain operations.
(a) Fuel.
(b) Strategy.
(c) Ammunition.
(d) Trained soldiers.

13. Where do the Germans build the Atlantic Wall?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) Japan.
(d) France.

14. The lesson Hitler took from World War I is that Germany could not win a war of __________.
(a) Strategy.
(b) Fire power.
(c) Attrition.
(d) Politics.

15. Many of the German divisions are waiting on orders from whom?
(a) Rundstedt.
(b) Dollmann.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Rommel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the losses predicted by Commander Leigh-Mallory?

2. What is H-Hour scheduled to be on D-Day?

3. What is the assignment of Sgt. Elmo Jones, 505th PIR?

4. What compounds Germany's strategic problems as the war goes on?

5. Who has the greatest doubts about the probability of D-Day success until witnessing the dress rehearsal?

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