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1. Mussolini and Hitler
cemented an alliance in which
both promised to go to war
together. What is the pact
known as?

2. In August 1939, German
Foreign Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop meets with his
Soviet counterpart. Who was
the Soviet counterpart?

3. What was the code name for
the invasion of Europe?

4. Who commanded the Allied
land forces for the invasion?


5. Eisenhower had tentatively
selected June 5 as the date
for the assault.

6. To help with the invasion,
operations were planed the
night before to secure
locations to delay any German
counter offensive. What was
this operation?

7. Which was not a British
beach during D-Day?

8. What was not an American
army division that attacked
the Omaha Beach?

9. What was the massive
concrete cliff-top gun
emplacement that was the
target of the 2nd Ranger
battalion?

10. The specific missions of
the airborne divisions were
to block approaches into the
vicinity of the amphibious
landing at Utah Beach, to
capture causeway exits off the
beaches, and to establish
crossings over the Douve River
at Carentan to assist the U.S.
V Corps in merging the two
American beachheads.

11. Who commanded the 82nd
Airborne Division?

12. Who commanded the 101st
Airborne Division?

13. IX Troop Carrier Command
(TCC) was formed in October
1943 to carry out the airborne
assault mission in the
invasion. General Paul
Williams took command in
February 1944.  He had never
commanded troop carrier
operations.

14. What was the principal
aircraft used by the IX Troop
Carrier Command?

15. Of the total flight crews
going into action for D-Day,
how many of all crews had
never been under fire?

16. About 1,200 aircraft went
into the airborne attack.
How many aircraft were lost
during the two days of
operations?

17. To assist the pilots of
the troop carrier groups in
locating the six drop zones
and two landing zones in the
darkness, each division formed
a company of scouts. What did
these scouts become known as?


18. Because of the requirement
for absolute radio silence,
plans were formulated on May
17 to mark aircraft including
gliders with stripes to
facilitate aircraft
recognition. What colors were
the strips?

19. The original plan was to
deliver the airborne troops
via gliders instead of
parachute drop.

20. On D-Day, what was the
untested Infantry Division,
joined by eight companies of
U.S. Rangers redirected from
Pointe du Hoc, were to assault
the western half of the beach?