Quiz: The D-Day Invasion

This is just too easy for anyone even moderately interested in military history. I mean you would have to be a real simpleton to think MacArthur - who had some work over in the Pacific to do - would be involved in DDay planning. And not to know it was Operation Overlord when many DDay books have that in their titles. Even children's maps show the flags of the USA, Canada and Britain as the landing forces. Most 2 page summaries record the Pas de Calais deception plans. The code names Sword Gold Juno Utah and Omaha are also shown on most children's maps. Which leaves Questions 4 and 8. I hadn't heard of The Americanisation of Emily, but the jungle scenes in The Thin Red Line clearly indicate it is not set on the English Channel coast!

So that leaves DDay itself. No general would call the key day of an operation Doom Day or Disaster Day. Debarkation Day might seem possible, except it should be Disembarkation Day (when the ships unload), since the ships were loaded at least 24 hours earlier (I'm not even sure the word Debarkation exists). I had thought DDay came from a German phrase - Der Tag (The Day), and that DDay came from that, but the explanation offered seemed commonsense. So I got 8/8. Who's the Daddy!

Dan Filson 10:38AM March 07, 2011