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The History Challenge...

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:32 pm
by Wing Nut
Here's a bit of a challenge for the history buffs here.  If you can answer this, you are a bonafide expert!  ;D

What was the highest ranking person, of any country, to go ashore in the first wave of the D-Day landings?  

Re: The History Challenge...

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:37 pm
by Felix/FFDS
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr - brigadier , er Brigadier General (one star gen'rul)  ?

Re: The History Challenge...

PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:57 am
by ATI_7500
Next question: Who was the highest ranking person who got mowed down by a german machine gun during the first attack run on D-Day?
A tad more difficult,huh? ;)

Re: The History Challenge...

PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:25 am
by Felix/FFDS
What caliber machine gun?



Next question: Who was the highest ranking person who got mowed down by a german machine gun during the first attack run on D-Day?
A tad more difficult,huh? ;)

Re: The History Challenge...

PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:29 am
by ATI_7500
;D