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War at Home
D-Day
War from the Ground
War from the Air
After D-Day
100
This age group contributed to the war by collecting tin and rubber
How did the children contribute?
100
This was the date of D-Day
What is June 6?
100
The soldiers were greeted enthusiastically by this key French city after finally arriving on August 25th.
What is Paris?
100
This branch of the military was in charge of taking out enemy strongpoints and destroying highways and bridges?
What is the Air Force?
100
This is the name of the wall Germans used as a natural barrier against the Allies
What is the West Wall/Siegfried Line?
200
This was used by labor unions and big corporations to turn defense workers into "production soldiers"
What are propaganda posters?
200
This tactic used fake tanks and landing equipment to trick the Germans?
What is the Ghost Army
200
These brothers were separated in the army, and one died during D-Day
Who are the Roland brothers?
200
This is the Air Force pilot specifically mentioned throughout the story from near Luverne?
Who is Quentin Aanenson?
200
This is the location General Douglass MacArthur landed on when he returned to the Phillipines
What is Leyte?
300
These limited the amount of food a person could buy.
What are ration stamps?
300
This was the beach that the soldiers landed on where D-Day took place
What is Normandy
300
This is the one thing soldiers looked forward to receiving every day
What is mail?
300
This occurs when a planes accidentally shoot their own soldiers.
What is friendly fire?
300
This is the location of soldiers needed to get across to reach Schmidt, which they were unprepared to fight in
What is Hurtgen Forest?
400
This is the location of the internment camp where Sascha Weinzheimer was held
What is Santo Tomas?
400
This was the first phase of D-Day
What is the landing of the paratroopers on the beach?
400
This soldier wrote letters to his sister Olga up until his death, which occurred right before his 21st birthday
Who is Babe Ciarlo?
400
This operation was the worst American friendly fire incident of the war.
What is Operation Cobra?
400
These are "as inevitable as" physical casualties
What are psychological casualties?
500
The name of the general who outraged parents by saying "The war effort was successful because so many young people had been willing to die"
What is General Holland "Howlin Mad" Smith?
500
This is the reason D-Day was postponed from August 5th
What is bad weather?
500
This medic got sick after seeing his first wounded soldier.
Who is Bryan Chamberlin III?
500
This woman eventually becomes Quentin Aanenson's wife after meeting him at the start of the war.
Who is Jackie Greer
500
This is Japanese for "divine wind"
What are kamikazes?