<div style='text-align: center;'><span style='font-size: 24pt;'>D-Day</span></div>

What date did D-Day take place, a day later than originally planned due to poor weather conditions?

10 May 1944

15 May 1944

5 June 1944

6 June 1944

What did British authorities ban on 12 March 1944 to prevent leaking of the date of the invasion?

Leaving the country

Telephone calls

Newspapers

Travel to Ireland

Which city did the allies plan to take on D-Day, it was in fact only captured after a month of fighitng?

Lisieux

Le Havre

Caen

Rouen

Which General did the allies place in SE England as part of the plan to trick the Germans into believing they would invade Calais, not Normandy?

General George S Patton

General Bernard Montgomery

General Omar Bradley

General Frederick Morgan

How did King George VI prevent Churchill from going to sea with the fleet and watching the landings from HMS Belfast?

By insisting that if Churchill went he would also go

Threatened his position as Prime Minister

Threatened to remove funding to the army

Passed a law forbidding Churchill from leaving the country

How many ships took part in the largest seaborne invasion in history?

3,000

5,000

7,000

9,000

By what porportion was the German airforce - the Luftwaffe - outnumbered?

12:1

15:1

25:1

30:1

Which of these was NOT one of the codenames of the five key beaches?

Judo

Gold

Omaha

Sword

What does the 'D' stand for in 'D-Day'?

Dynamo

Defence

The Day

Deutsche

Which of these was not a tactical setback experienced by the Allies on D-Day?

Loss of amphibious tanks

Mines on the beaches

Bad Weather

Loss of communication

What percentage of paratroopers landed in the correct place on the night of the invasion?

10%

15%

23%

30%

What did Glasgow born Bill Millin do as he walked up and down Sword Beach?

Played the bagpipes

Played the guitar

Sung opera

Played the bugle

What was the codename for the naval invasion of France?

Operation Dynamo

Operation Bodyguard

Operation Overlord

Operation Neptune

Where did the Allied troops land?

Dunkirk

Normandy

Calais

Le Havre

How many troops had landed in France by midnight on D-Day?

132,000

157,000

89,000

121,000

How many allied troops are estimated to have been killed on D-Day?

7,500

8,750

9,250

10,500

Who did Hitler appoint as Inspector of Coastal Defences in November 1943?

Erwin Rommel

Gerd von Rundstedt

Karl Donitz

Heinrich Himmler

What was Operation Bodyguard?

The aerial bombardment of Normandy ahead of the D-Day landings

The naval invasion of France

The backup battalions for D-Day

A deceptive strategy to trick the Germans

All information regarding the invasion was marked with what classification?

Commander

Bigot

Top Secret

Classified

In the lead up to D-Day how many maps were drawn up?

87,000

526,000

1.8 million

17 million

What were Allied aircraft's required to do to aid recognition in the lead up to D-Day?

Paint stripes on their plane

Paint their planes blue

Remove all markikng besides their division number

Paint the nose of their plane

During the D-Day invasion, what was the rendezvous area in the middle of the channel known as?

Trafalgar Square

Leicester Square

Buckingham Palace

Piccadilly Circus

How long did the crossing of the English channel take?

6 Hours

9 Hours

13 Hours

17 Hours

Who was the only person who could order the German Panzers to counter-attack the Allied invasion?

Adolf Hitler

Hermann Goering

Franz Ritter von Epp

Heinrich Himmler

Which beach was the 'Taxis to Hell and Back – Into the Jaws of Death' photograph taken?

Sword

Gold

Omaha

Utah

Which beach were many of the 'Duplex Drive' amphibious tanks launched too far from shore - never making it to land?

Omaha

Juno

Gold

Sword

Which beach had bluffs that were over 100 feet high?

Juno

Omaha

Utah

Gold

What nickname was given to the sherman tank that was able to overcome the bocage?

Sherman Elephant

Sherman Hippo

Sherman Rhino

Sherman Bull

Which military poem was the title of the photo 'Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death' derived from?

Just a Common Soldier

Dulce et Decorum Est

For the Fallen

The Charge of the Light Brigade

How many workers had been used to build Hitler's Atlantic Wall, a formidable defence faced by the Allies?

15,000

35,000

70,000

100,000

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