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World War II Quiz

1. On which date did the Second World War officially begin?

2. What was the most mass produced fighter aircraft of the Second World War?

3. In June of 1941, the Nazis decided to break their non-aggression pact with Stalin's Soviet Union. Hence the invasion of the east began. What was Hitler's code name for this operation?

4. A Reich marshal and a morphine addict. Flamboyant and vain yet adored by the masses, name the man who was to become Hitler's successor. The man who at the time commanded the largest air force in the world. The 'Luftwaffe'.

6. On June 6th 1944, the allies finally landed at 'Omaha' beach, Normandy, France. Thus invading Hitler's Europe and creating a second front for the struggling German war machine to contest. What was the top secret code name of this invasion?

8. Name the Nazi General, nicknamed 'The Desert Fox', who commanded the 'Afrika Corps' eastward through Libya final objective being Cairo, along the way taking Tobruk but being defeated by General Montgomery's British forces at the 'Battle of El alamein?

10. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr, pilot of the B-29 Superfortress bomber which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on 6th August 1945 named the aircraft after his mother. What was his mother's name? Hence being the name of the aircraft?

11. Name the highly decorated SS Officer, pioneer in rocket science, aeronautical engineer who invented Germany's 'miracle weapons' the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket at Peenemunde, who after the war defected to the U.S. was the leader and brain behind NASA's moon race and Apollo projects?

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