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    On this day 70 years ago, the Allied forces launched an assault on mainland Europe -- now known as "D-Day"
    Accordingly, we have some lesser known facts about D-Day for our 3 questions tonight.
    Please give us your best answers from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each question.
       ++ "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #16: "70th Anniversary of D-Day" ++
Question #1: To this day, the D-Day operation (nicknamed "Overlord") is still the largest seaborne military operation the world has ever seen -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.

Seventy years ago, on June 6, 1944, thousands of men and women were preparing to take part in an operation that marked the start of the end of World War II. The D-Day landings had been planned for more than a year and involved more than 130,000 allied troops. By the end of the day more than 10,000 people had been killed, injured or taken prisoner. Today it is still the largest seaborne military operation the world has ever seen.

Question #2: As part of several deception strategies to confuse the Germans where and when the D-Day operation was to happen, early on D-Day, dummies dressed in paratrooper uniforms were dropped in Normandy away from the actual landing sites. What were these dummies called?
        A. Waldos, or
        B. Adolphs, or
        C. Ruperts

Code names and information blackouts were just the start of the secrecy that cloaked the D-Day operation. The Allied forces fabricated ‘Operation Fortitude’, a deception strategy employed to try and confuse German troops about where and when they would attack. As part of the ruse the Allies leaked faked plans, sent bogus coded messages across the radio and set up diversionary camps.
To add to the illusion, early on D-Day morning “Ruperts” – dummies dressed in paratrooper uniforms complete with boots and helmets – were dropped in Normandy and the Pas-de-Calais. The dummies were equipped with recordings of gunfire, while the real troops supplied additional sound effects to create the illusion of a large scale airborne attack. This operation, code-named “Titanic,” was designed to distract the German military while the main forces landed further to the west.

Question #3: The original day for the proposed D-Day invasion was actually planned for June 5th, not June 6th -- True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.

The original date for the Normandy landings was actually June 5 but as the day approached bad weather forced General Eisenhower to delay by 24 hours. According to the US Navy Department Library, the German military leaders were expecting an Allied invasion in late May when there was a full moon, high tide and little wind. When the weather worsened at the beginning of June the Germans started to relax a little but the Allied forecasters had predicted an opening and the operation was launched.
The Allied meteorologists were hailed for their decision based on this weather map…

[SOURCE: 70 years on: the facts you may not know about D-Day (70ème Anniversaire du Débarquement Allié)]
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++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ -- from Winston Churchill confided his fears to his wife the evening before the landings telling her:
“Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning 20,000 men may have been killed?”[SOURCE: 70 years on: the facts you may not know about D-Day]

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