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Comprehensive D-Day Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Normandy Invasion

This quiz challenges participants' knowledge about the D-Day invasion during World War II through a series of visual prompts and multiple-choice questions related to significant events, locations, and operations.

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💡 Interesting Facts

  • the British Hawkins-class heavy cruiser HMS Frobisher (pictured) in 1944 was involved in Operation Neptune as a member of Gunfire Bombardment Support Force D allocated to Sword Beach in the D-Day landings.
  • the England amateur footballer, Leonard Dawe, became a crossword compiler for The Daily Telegraph newspaper and in 1944 was interrogated on suspicion of espionage in the run-up to the D-Day landings.
  • the Achelous-class repair ship USS Atlas (pictured) was used to repair damaged landing craft after D-Day in 1944.
  • the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was the first Canadian unit on the ground in France in the Invasion of Normandy on D-Day, 1944.
  • the final section of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados was closed by damage from the 1944 D-Day.
  • the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight contains the world's oldest airworthy survivor of the Battle of Britain, alongside ten other historic aircraft - two of which fought over Normandy on D-Day.
  • the attack transport USS Bayfield (pictured) served as headquarters for planning the D-Day landings on "Utah Beach" in 1944.
  • information gathered by spy Peggy Taylor, who posed as a prostitute in France during the Second World War, was instrumental in planning D-Day.
  • 410 Squadron RCAF was the top-scoring night-fighter unit in 2nd Tactical Air Force in the period between D-Day and VE Day.
  • David Haig-Thomas who rowed for Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics was an ornithologist, arctic explorer and commando officer who was killed in action on D-Day.
  • as a junior officer Rear Admiral Teddy Gueritz served as beachmaster on Sword Beach from D-Day until he was severely wounded 19 days later, and was awarded a bar to his Distinguished Service Cross.
  • during World War II, No. 233 Squadron RAF (pictured) lost four aircraft out of a total of twenty-four supply flights flown at the end of D-Day, June 6, 1944.
  • in September 1942 No. 62 Commando carried out a raid on what was later to become known as Omaha Beach in France, where American forces would land on D-Day in 1944.
  • Leonard T. "Max" Schroeder Jr. was the first American soldier to land in Normandy from an assault boat on D-Day in World War II.
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