| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The longest day | D-Day landings | 88%
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| Turning point on the Eastern front | Seige of Stalingrad | 87%
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| The largest evacuation across the channel | Dunkirk | 81%
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| the half way-mark in the pacific | Battle of Midway | 79%
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| A day which will live in infamy | Pearl harbour | 77%
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| Raising the flag on Suribachi | Iwo Jima | 75%
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| The last stepping stone to Tokyo | Okinawa | 72%
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| Soviets take the offensive, biggest tank battle, ever | Battle of Kursk | 68%
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| Turning point in North Africa | El Alamein | 64%
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| 'This was their finest hour' | Battle of Britain | 58%
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| Hunt for Germany's main ship | Battle of the Bismarck | 55%
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| Largest airborne assult of the war | Operation Market Garden | 44%
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| Ancient monestry/fortress destroyed by allied bombing (Italy) | Monte Cassino | 43%
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| Main battle during the breakout from Normandy | Caen | 28%
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| Lebensraum | Operation Barbarossa | 10%
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| The opposite, three years later^ | Operation Bagration | 5%
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