It must too early in the morning. I swear the clue said the marines 'ironically' raised the flag, and was scratching my head really hard to find any irony therein...
couldn't remember the Midway, but I surprised myself by getting the MacArthur one right. It was a complete guess, I don't think I ever learned that one, but I do think I heard it in a movie or something.
Dugout Doug left all his men behind so that they could go on the Bataan Death March, thrown into POW camps, tortured and starved so that he could get the Medal of Honor. Go figure.
And he gassed World War 1 veterans camped out peacefully on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Gassed, mind you, World War 1 veterans. His subordinate Dwight Eisenhower futilely advised against it and was disgusted by the fatal decision.
Belarus then a part of USSR and Poland and now an independent country lost a greater % of its population than Poland. In terms of numbers, Auschwitz was the deadliest but in terms of % Treblinka was probably a deadlier camp. Auschwitz had some labor sub camps, Treblinka was a straight death camp. The only people who survived longer than arrival were used to bury the dead and serve the guards.
Malta deserves to be mentioned here. It went through a lot, as did the RAF and the Royal Navy in defending it. Operation Pedestal in particular should be much better known.
Yeah our capital still bears bombed buildings such as the royal opera house. You'd be amazed how little knowledge our neighbors have of Malta, even most Sicilians don't know where Malta is and we can see their southern coast from our shores!
Malta - The George Cross Island - Well known in England and admired for the courage and tenacity of the people. My cousin was in the RAF stationed on Malta during that time and finished living there for years.
The aim of the Germans with the "battle of the bulge" or Ardennes offensive as we cal it in Belgium (as wel as Germany) (or Ardennes battle in France) was NOT to invade France directly. It was to cut through allied lines with 2 objectives: the river Meuse and especially Antwerp. This would cut off allied supplies and the allied advances in the Netherlands.
The Ardennes do lie partly in France but the nazis never reached the border with France they tried to go westwards, not southwest). So there was no German invasion of France in 44 (only in may 1940 and fall 1914). They only fought in Belgium and Luxembourg.
You are talking about the Ardennes Counteroffensive but this question was about the invasion of France - Battle of France - that Germany engaged in also through the Ardennes in 1939. Quizzmaster does not mention 1944 in this question.
Caution, the Eagle's Nest is not really a place where Hitler used to go/stay (at most ten times his whole life). His residency was actually the Berghof.
The Ledo Road was the successor to the Burma Road, once the latter was cut off by the Japanese in 1942. Ran from China to both India and Burma. That was my first guess, but not an accepted answer.
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The Ardennes do lie partly in France but the nazis never reached the border with France they tried to go westwards, not southwest). So there was no German invasion of France in 44 (only in may 1940 and fall 1914). They only fought in Belgium and Luxembourg.
The question is misleading.