The History Challenge...

[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?  

[Felix/FFDS]

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr - brigadier , er Brigadier General (one star gen'rul)  ?

[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?

[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?

[ATI_7500]