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| Supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 100%
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| Russian city. Besieged by German forces for 900 days. | Leningrad | 100%
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| Kicked the daylights out of US forces at Kasserine Pass, Tunisia 1943. His swansong in Africa before he left Africa for good. | Erwin Rommel | 83%
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| Codename for the Battle of Normandy beginning 6 June, 1944. | Operation Overlord | 83%
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| The Russian Army was also known as this. | Red Army | 67%
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| This battle was a costly failure for US forces in the Italian Campaign. 22 January, 1944 - 4 June, 1944. A beach landing near this town. | Anzio | 50%
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| Stalin, Roosevelt and the brandy-swilling, cigar chomper met at this place in the Crimea. 4 - 11 February, 1945. | Yalta | 50%
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| German, Italian and Hungarian forces invaded this country on 6 April, 1941. | Yugoslavia | 50%
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| The 2nd SS Panzer Division had this added title. | Das Reich | 33%
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| SS troubleshooter. Fort Eben Emael. Mussolini rescue. | Otto Skorzeny | 33%
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| Vichy France. Collaborationist. Executed in 1945 by the Free French. | Pierre Laval | 33%
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| The fireside chatterbox and the British Empire imperialist who all babies look like issued a joint statement in Newfoundland proposing their plans for a post-war world. 9 - 12 August, 1941. What did it become known as? | Atlantic Charter | 17%
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| Commanded First US Army. Hurtgen Forest. Aachen. Remagen. | Courtney Hodges | 17%
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| The fireside chatterbox. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 17%
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| Generalfeldmarschall. Old, honourable Prussian soldier from a long military tradition. He did not indulge in atrocities. He just turned a blind eye to the work of the Einsatzgruppen in his rear. | Gerd von Rundstedt | 17%
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| A top Nazi in the early days. He flew to Scotland in May, 1941 in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 to negotiate a peace with the English before the sheet hit the fan for Germany in the land of the vodka-swillers. Hanged himself in Spandau Prison in 1987. | Rudolf Hess | 17%
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| Most famous Russian tank. | T-34 (Tee Thirty-Four) | 17%
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| Most famous Japanese fighter plane. | Zero | 17%
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| German-American admiral. Became a big wheel in the USN. Whilst an ensign he ran aground the destroyer Decatur on a mudbank in the Philippines in 1908. He didn't check the tide tables of the port. | Chester W. Nimitz | 0%
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| The most infamous of the 2nd SS Panzer Division's regiments. The 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment. Oradour-sur-Glane and Tulle massacres. Many more atrocities in Russia. It had this added title. | Der Fuhrer | 0%
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| German army high command. The German abbreviation, if you please. | OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) | 0%
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| US Brigadier-General. Lawyer. Lead counsel for the prosecution at the 12 Nuremberg trials after the first trial when the biggies swung at the end of a rope. Anti-Joseph McCarthy. Anti-Vietnam War. Honourable man. | Telford Taylor | 0%
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| At the outbreak of WWII the Polish army consisted of nearly 10% of these cavalrymen. | Uhlan | 0%
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| Field Marshal. Commanded the 6th Army until he suffered a fatal heart attack. A committed Nazi. I forgot to add his name to my quiz about evil, Nazi bastards. Will do. He ordered his men to co-operate with the einsatzgruppe working in his rear. His men lent a helping hand at Babi Yar, Kiev. | Walter von Reichenau | 0%
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