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D-Day Quiz
What was the codename of Eisenhower’s Advance Command Post in the grounds of Southwick House?
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Solstice
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Sharpener
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Portsdown
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Sharpener – it was a series of caravans and tents hidden in the trees. Eisenhower arrived there on 4 June 1944
What was the name of the deception plan carried out by 617 Squadron on 6 June 1944?
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Operation TAXABLE
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Operation GLIMMER
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Operation BIG DRUM
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Operation TAXABLE – a simulated cross-Channel invasion led by Wing Commander Leonard Cheshire
How many sorties were flown by Allied air forces on D-Day?
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14,674
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7,832
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9,421
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14,674 – and flown by some 11,590 aircraft
What was the name of the sixth but unused beach earmarked by the Allies?
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SCUTTLE
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MONK
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BAND
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BAND – it lay to the east of the Orne to the north of the Merville Battery and features on various maps. It was identified but never used
What was the name of the first Allied soldier killed in action on D-Day?
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Lieutenant Den Brotheridge
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Private Robert Johns
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Private Emile Corteil
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Lieutenant Den Brotheridge – he was killed crossing Pegasus Bridge
Where was the four-gun battery taken out by men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, on the morning of D-Day?
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Brécourt Manor
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St Marie des Monts
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La Fière
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Brécourt Manor
What was the codename of the bunker complex that held up 3rd Division for much of the afternoon and night of D-Day?
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Morris
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Trout
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Hillman
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Hillman – not to be confused with Morris, a few hundred yards to the north and which surrendered immediately
Who was the only divisional commander to be killed on D-Day?
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General Wilhelm Falley
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General Erich Marcks
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General Friedrich Dollmann
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General Wilhelm Falley, GOC 91st Luftlande Division – he was shot and killed by an American paratrooper as his car was travelling by
How many Allied troops came ashore on D-Day?
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155,327
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122,809
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132,715
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132,715. Some 155,000 Allied troops were on French soil at the end of D-Day, but 22,000 were dropped – so the correct answer is 132,715, who came ashore on the beaches
What does NMI stand for on the 1st Infantry Division memorial at Colleville, overlooking Omaha Beach?
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Never Made Inland
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No Middle Initial
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No Medal Inferred
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No Middle Initial
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