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D-Day
Designed By: Joe and Mike

 
1.What was The Battle of Normandy (D-Day)? To find the answer or to read more about it go to: http://ddaymuseum.org/education_historydday.html
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2.Look at the picture on the top of this page: http://www.alltel.net/~bendl/dday.html What do you think it would be like to live in a place like this when a war was going on?
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3.What was the Atlantic Wall? To read the answer go to: http://www.atlantikwall.net/ 
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4.How many men were killed at Omaha Beach out of how many were sent? What do you think your chances of survival would have been if you had been a soldier landed on the beach? To get the answer: http://www.softwhale.com/history/D-Day/OmahaBeach.htm   
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5. What was the "Corridor of Death" at Montormel? To find a description go to: http://www.estc.ch/en/page.0.4.html
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6. Go to http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/d-day/index.html and look at the picture of the soldier in the water. If you were him how do you think you would feel and what do you think it sounded like during the battle?
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7. What were the main reasons the planners choose the beaches they did? To get information go here: http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/BACK/D_Day_inv_sites.htm If you were a planner would you have done anything different and why?
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8.What does the D stand for in D-Day and what was it helpful for? For information on it go to: http://ddaymuseum.org/education_historydday.html
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9.What were all the beaches codenames and what beaches did Americans land on and why did they have codenames? To find this answer go to: http://www.franceway.com/regions/normandi/d-day.htm
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10. What did the H in H-hour stand for and why did they use it? To find out go to: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/faq/ddaydef.htm
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