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1. What was the battle-
hardened 1st Infantry Division
was given the eastern half?


2. How many sectors was Omaha
Beach divided into?

3. Despite these preparations,
very little went according to
plan. Ten landing craft were
lost before they even reached
the beach, swamped by the
rough seas. Seasickness was
also prevalent among the
troops waiting offshore.

4. As early as 07:30 survivors
of what Company 2nd Rangers,
who had landed 45 minutes
earlier on the right flank of
Omaha in the first wave, had
scaled the Omaha Beach cliffs?


5. What loss of the majority
of this equipment made the
task of organizing the
scattered and dispirited
troops even more difficult,
and those command groups that
did make the shore were
limited in their effect to
their immediate locality?


6. Unnamed lieutenant, Easy
Red sector said "Are you going
to lay there and get killed,
or get up and do something
about it?"

7. The only artillery support
available to the troops in
making these tentative
advances came from the navy.
What was one of the destroyers
used on Omaha Beach?

8. Of the 2,400 tons of
supplies scheduled to be
landed on D-Day, only 2,000
tons actually landed.

9. Once the beachhead had been
secured Omaha Beach became the
location of one of the two
prefabricated artificial
harbors towed in pieces across
the English Channel and
assembled just off shore. What
were these artificial harbors
known as?

10. Utah Beach was the
codename for one of the Allied
landing beaches during the
D-Day invasion of Normandy, as
part of Operation Overlord on
6 June 1944. Utah was added to
the invasion plan toward the
end of the planning stages,
when more landing craft became
available. The landing had
relatively little resistance,
in contrast to Omaha Beach
where the fighting was fierce.
Utah beach, about 3 miles
long, was the westernmost of
the five landing beaches,
located between Pouppeville
and La Madeleine. What was the
army division that landed on
Utah Beach?

11. How many waves were
planned for the attack on
Utah Beach?

12. He was the assistant
commander of the 4th Division,
had requested several times,
against his commander's best
judgment, to go in the first
wave and personally lead the
initial attack on the beach
strong points.  His written
request was finally approved
by Gen. Barton, 4th Division
Commanding General.  He would
be the only general to land
with the initial sea borne
assault wave on D-Day and, at
57, he was the oldest soldier
to land. Who was the general?


13. What award was the Brig.
General that landed on the
first wave awarded for
his actions?

14. The defense of the area
was largely based on flooding
the coastal plain behind the
beaches, and there were
fewer bunkers.

15. What bombers of the U.S.
Ninth Air Force, flying below
5,000 feet, provided close air
support for the assaulting
forces.

16. The most significant
difference was the 13,000 men
from the 101st Airborne
Division and the 82nd
Airborne Division already
fighting inland. For 5 hours
before the first Utah
landings, the paratroopers
(and glider forces) had been
fighting their way out toward
the beach, clearing the enemy
from positions along the
exits.

17. He was a Democratic United
States Senator from Michigan
from 1959 until 1976. He was a
lieutenant colonel of Infantry
and was wounded during the
D-Day assault on Utah Beach.
Who was this U.S. Senator?


18. This officer commanded the
8th Infantry Regiment for
three years and led it into
combat in Europe in World War
II, participating in the D-Day
landings on Utah Beach in June
1944. Although widely regarded
as an outstanding officer, he
was blocked from promotion
because the Army Chief of
Staff, General George
Marshall, erroneously confused
him with a well-known
alcoholic officer with a
similar name. Who was
this officer?

19. He is an American author,
best known for his 1951 novel
The Catcher in the Rye, as
well as for his reclusive
nature. In the spring of 1942,
several months after the
United States entered World
War II, he was drafted into
the Army, where he saw combat
with the U.S. 12th Infantry
Regiment in some of the
fiercest fighting of the war.
He was active at Utah Beach
on D-Day. Who is this author.


20. Operation Overlord was the
phase in the Western front of
World War II that was fought
in 1944 between German forces
and the invading Allied
forces. The campaign began
with Normandy Landings on June
6, 1944 (commonly known as
D-Day), among the largest
amphibious assaults ever
conducted when nearly three
million troops crossed the
English Channel and ended on
August 25, 1944, with the
liberation of Paris. What
event does some historians
believe was the end of
Operation Overlord?