Mission Albany and Boston are the names of the first two attempts at ______.
What are Airborne Assaults?
100
The code name for D-Day.
What is Operation Neptune?
100
These were used to sink ships and the U-505 could carry up to 22 of these.
What are torpedoes?
100
This is the patrol that the U-505 first sunk a ship on the West coast of Africa.
What is the second patrol?
100
This prevented D-Day from happening on the 5th of June, one day earlier than the actual day.
What is bad weather?
200
German anti-aircraft fire and unmarked landing zones are examples of ______ .
What are factors that disrupted the drops?
200
The most heavily fortified beach out of 6.
What is Omaha Beach?
200
This assisted the Allies in code breaking and was found on the U-505.
What is the Enigma Machine?
200
After a streak of 6 failed patrols, the captain of the U-505 committed suicide on his 10th patrol.
Who is Peter Zschech?
200
This was used in Operation Fortitude to trick the Germans into believing in misinformation.
What is fake radio traffic?
300
The name of the Aerial support that was provided following the paratroopers.
What are the D-day glider landings Chicago and Detroit?
300
The Allied troops suffered higher casualties than the Germans. This is because Germans had an advantage over Allied troops. What was the advantage?
The Germans fought on cliffs while the Allies were on the beach front. This gave the Germans a much greater advantage because the Allies were exposed to German fire.
300
The U-505 and the U-534 are the last two existing examples of large ocean submarines that would carry out operations far from home. These subs were called __________.
German Type IX U-boat
300
This Commander led Task Group 22.3 (aka Hunter Killer). Which was the group given the task of locating any submarines operating near Cape Verde.
Who is Daniel V. Gallery?
300
This drug was developed during the time of the second World War, and it was shipped with soldiers to Normandy and saved many lives.
What is Penicillin?
400
The American Pathfinder companies were used to deploy ____ to assist the Airborne Assault teams.
What are the Rebecca/Eureka transponding radar?
400
Although a total of 8 countries contributed to the allied navy, there were two countries that supplied most of the fleet. Which two countries were they?
UK and Canada
400
The name of the German Navy who commissioned these U-boats.
What is the Kriegsmarine?
400
This was recovered from the captured U-505 and studied to aid the allies in developing anti submarine technology.
What are acoustic homing missiles?
400
These were used by Allies on Omaha Beach and weren't as effective as originally planned. Out of the 32, 27 of them sank and flooded before even reaching shore.
What are Tanks?
500
Operation Neptune consisted of 3 subdivisions of airborne soldiers and they are ______, ______, and ______.
What are paratroops, glider troops, US Air Force Air Crew
500
Many soldiers experienced this on the 100 mile wide journey to the Normandy coast.
What is Seasickness?
500
The submarine tactic that allowed multiple subs to group together and destroy targets easier.
What is "wolf pack"?
500
After the U-505 was scoured for all of its technology and resources. This man contacted Lenox Lohr (President of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry) to see if the museum would be interested in the submarine.
Who is Father John Gallery?
500
This device was introduced in the second World War and was used to catch enemy radios when they transmitted.
What is Huff - Duff (High Frequency direction finding)