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| What was the codename for the North African invasion? | Operation Torch |
| Who was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe who combined administrative skills, strategic leadership and a personal talent for getting big egos to work together? | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Who was the brilliant Afrika Korps commander of the German Panzer Divisions? | Field Marshall Erwin Rommel |
| What was Rommel's nickname? | Desert Fox |
| What beret-capped British commander led His Majesty's forces to victory at El Alamein and at Normandy? | General Bernard Montgomery |
| Whose sensitive daily columns made the dangers, the courage, and the loneliness of American soldiers real to the folks back home? | Ernie Pyle |
| What was the German strategic objective in the drive eastward across North Africa? | Oil fields in Saudi Arabia |
| Who was the hard-driving American commander in North Africa who was "grounded" by Ike for hitting a hospitalized soldier? | Gen. George Patton |
| What strategic priority did FDR and Churchill agree upon for fighting the war? | Relieve England by beating Hitler in Europe first. |
| Once North Africa was secured by the Allies, what was the next target? | Sicily |
| Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia, was stopped at what turning point battle on the Eastern Front (assisted by General Winter)? | Stalingrad |
| Why was the fighting to secure Italy so difficult when the Italian government had secertly surrenedered to the Allies before the invasion? | Hitler sent seasoned troops to man 3 defensive lines across the spine of Italy. |
| What was the codename for the Italian invasion at Anzio beach? | Operation Shingle |
| What was so hard about the fighting in Italy? | Germans held the high ground while Allies fought uphill and downhill in mud and winter blizzard conditions which resulted in high casualty rates. |
| What was the codename for the D-Day invasion? | Operation Overlord |
| What date was D-Day? | June 6, 1944 |
| What was remarkable about the size of the invasion at Normandy? | It was the largest amphibious invasion in the history of man. |
| What were the two beachheads coded where Americans landed? | Utah and Omaha |
| What was the German line of fortifications called that rimmed the English Channel? | Atlantic Wall |
| How many men crossed from England on D-Day? | 170,000 |
| What is a Higgins boat? | A landing craft for men or jeeps used on D-Day |
| After D-Day what were the next two targets for the Allied move inland? | The liberation of Paris and march to Berlin. |
| The Battle of the Ardennes Forest resulted in heavy Germany and Allied casualties. What German counterattack took a fierce toll before the Allies were successful? | The Battle of the Bulge |
| The 100th Bomb Squadron had staggering casualty rates flying B-17 daylight missions into Germany. What was the nickname for the B-17? | Flying Fortress |
| What American technology helped Allied bombers with precision bombing - putting the pickle in the barrel? | The Norden bombsight |
| Who was Commander in Chief of all American forces? | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
