The Wrong and Right Choices: D-Day Quiz

Answer: Sit tight and hope the pilot can fly through the barrage

All the soldiers could do was pray and sit tight. If you leaned out of the plane, you would most likely fall off and die. The other two options only tell the others that you are a coward.

Answer: Go out in search of fellow Americans

The right choice is to regroup. Otherwise, if you go out alone and attack a group of Germans, you probably wouldn't stand a chance. Also it would be foolish to swim because you will run out of energy and drown. The bush choice can provide you some camouflage but it would get you nowhere.

Answer: Toss in a grenade in the open Tiger's hatch and kill the Germans with your M1 Carbine and pistol

The grenade was most effective against Tiger tanks because the American bazookas weren't that powerful, so most of the time their shells bounced off! The soldiers would probably gun you down before you could stab the with your bayonet.

Answer: You: Flash - Him: Thunder

'Flash' and 'Thunder' were the American paratrooper words to see if they were American. Able Able is the British 6th airborne phrase, based on their company. The other two are made up.

Answer: Blast two bazooka shells into the tanks

The Panzer 3s have much less armor than Tiger and Panther tanks so the bazooka would do some damage to them. If you called for help by the radioman, it would already be too late. If you were lucky, some nice German or American would come to sweep your smoking remains into a shoe box.

Answer: Keep advancing

Your job is to fight and advance not greet your friends like a greeter!

Answer: Take them back to the Headquarters

You should always take prisoners back alive. Your generals probably want to get some information too!

Answer: Dog tags

Every soldier has a dog tag around their neck with their name, rank and serial number. It helps tell who are the dead if their faces are too badly damaged and cannot be identified.

Answer: Aircraft

Even if a ship was full of anti aircraft guns, some planes will get through and probably sink a ship. At this stage of the war the U-boat peril was largely over as many U-boats had sunk in storms or while attacking convoys. However this was a few years after the disastrous convoy incident PQ-17 and the German air power had decreased a lot. So if you were in the Atlantic the plane you would most likely see is a German Condor, used to fly over convoys and report their position, not attack.

Answer: Operation Market Garden (Arnhem)

Arnhem was a failure for the Allies as they failed to capture the last bridge at Arnhem. The Battle of the Bulge was the next battle in line after Arnhem. Iwo Jima was in the Pacific where the 101st wasn't fighting. Operation Desert storm was in Kuwait and 46 years after World War 2!