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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the date that Eisenhower originally sets for D-Day?
(a) June 7.
(b) June 5.
(c) June 6.
(d) June 4.

2. How many bombers are shot down by Luftwaffe on D-Day?
(a) 0.
(b) 47.
(c) 113.
(d) 9.

3. What are the best of the young German recruits called?
(a) Gestapo.
(b) SS-Hitler.
(c) Waffen-SS.
(d) Gudt Amry.

4. What does Eisenhower believe is a skill that could be learned and not an art?
(a) War.
(b) Organization.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Strategy.

5. What are the troops given to communicate with each other once they are on the ground?
(a) Toy crickets.
(b) Radios.
(c) Whistles.
(d) Flares.

6. What are the Freiwilligen?
(a) Special ops.
(b) Volunteers.
(c) Elite pilots.
(d) Spies.

7. What is the date of the final dress rehearsal for D-Day?
(a) May 10.
(b) May 15.
(c) May 30.
(d) May 5.

8. What compounds Germany's strategic problems as the war goes on?
(a) Troop morale.
(b) Spies.
(c) Shortages.
(d) Arrogance.

9. What is handed out along with rations to the troops as they board vessels for the invasions?
(a) Ammunition.
(b) Condoms.
(c) Bibles.
(d) Cigarettes.

10. What does Rommel say he wants to be when the war ends?
(a) Electrical engineer.
(b) American.
(c) Hydraulic engineer.
(d) General.

11. What is the real name of the sexy-voiced Ohio girl known as "Axis Sally"?
(a) Midge Gillars.
(b) Greta Von Sallisord.
(c) Sally Struthers.
(d) Molly Anderson.

12. What is the Allied code name for the planned invasion for the spring of 1944?
(a) Overlord.
(b) Overboard.
(c) Oberon.
(d) Outlook.

13. What is always the weakest spot on any Allied line during the war?
(a) The boundary between the American and British armies.
(b) The gap between the air assault and ground fire.
(c) The lack of a strong navy.
(d) The boundary between the Germans and Russians.

14. What is H-Hour scheduled to be on D-Day?
(a) 0600.
(b) 0500.
(c) 0630.
(d) 0530.

15. What is Rommel given command of in 1940?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Afrika Korps.
(c) SS Division.
(d) Fifteenth Army.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are B-26s known as?

3. The lesson Hitler took from World War I is that Germany could not win a war of __________.

4. What is Maj. John Howard's D Company known as?

5. How many members of the 101st Airborne are captured by Jahnke's Germans?

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