Lecture #4 Identifications
Across
- 4. succeeds Gamelin as French supreme commander
- 5. German radar navigation device known as "crooked legs"
- 8. German medium range bomber quickly pulled from combat during the battle of Britain
- 10. French WWI hero who becomes leader of Vichy France
- 12. Gamelin delegated control of French forces in northeaster France before the German invasion
- 15. British scientist who experimented with bounding radio waves off distant planes to detect their approach
- 16. codename for proposed German invasion of Britain: Operation _________
- 17. Germans use this radar navigation system which allowed for more accurate bombing
- 18. fierce critic of French policy in the '30s who became premier but lacked a following in parliament
- 19. French minister of war under Reynard in spite of the two men despising each other
Down
- 1. indecisive French supreme commander of land forces
- 2. commander of RAF Fighter Command
- 3. Londoners use this as a bomb shelter
- 6. commander of the German navy
- 7. vocal critic of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy who becomes British Prime Minister
- 9. French general who refused to surrender, fled to London, and set up a government in exile there
- 11. British minister for aircraft production who insisted on producing Hurricanes and Spitfires
- 13. British pilot credited with 25 kills by October 1940
- 14. German pilot who was credited with 45 kills by November 1940