The Normandy Invasion

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1. General Eisenhower decided to postpone D-Day due to bad weather and rough seas on June 5 1944. If he had not given the go ahead on June 6th, how many more days would he have had to wait to order the landing on the next possible day? 13 days 31 days 20 days 1 day

2. In "Band of Brothers", the episode dealing with the landing in Normandy was called what? Operation Market Garden Normandy Landing Day of Days D-Day

3. Fill in the missing word in this quote by General Dwight David Eisenhower: "Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the American Expeditionary Force, you are about to embark on the great _______ toward which we have striven these many months." Battle Journey Crusade Invasion

4. What was Adolf Hitler doing at the time of the Normandy Invasion? Celebrating his Anniversary Speaking in Berlin Sleeping Filling out paperwork for dead soldiers

5. Which Normandy beach lay between the beaches that the British landed on? Omaha Gold Utah Juno

6. Which U.S. general led the United States First Army on Omaha Beach and Utah Beach? Bernard Law Montgomery J. Lawton Collins Leonard T. Gerow Omar N. Bradley

7. Which of these World War II films does *not* depict the Normandy Invasion at all? Band of Brothers Miniseries Saving Private Ryan Wings and a Prayer The Longest Day

8. On which beach did the Allied Forces suffer the most casualties in the beginning of the Normandy Invasion? Utah Omaha Sword Gold

9. What was the nickname of the German Field Marshal in charge of the defence of Normandy? Answer: (Two Words)

10. The generals who planned the Normandy Invasion, all estimated that the U.S. Allied forces would suffer about how many casualties in this invasion? 20,000 10,000 2,500 50,000