World War 2 - Revision

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  1. 6. British fighter plane used to intercept German bombers during the Battle of Britain
  2. 9. the full name of the Luftwaffe's main fighter during the Battle of Britain, it suffered from limited range, menaing that German bombers had to travel unprotected for part of their sortiey
  3. 10. (first and second name) Who was it, fretting about the vulnerability of his Panzer formations around the coastal lowlands, halted the advance on Dunkirk for two days?
  4. 12. first and second names, he gave a famous 'we shall never surrender' speech on 4 June 1940, the final day of the Dunkirk evacuation
  5. 14. which branch of the British Military came in for unjust criticism following the Dunkirk evacuation?
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  1. 1. (two words)in addition to men, what was lost on the beaches of Dunkirk?
  2. 2. the forest through which the main German armors forces effected a surprise advanced into France.
  3. 3. two word name for the siren on the Stuka airoplane
  4. 4. The Dunkirk evacuation was codenamed Operation what?
  5. 5. surname of the WWI French war hero who became the President of the Vichy collaborationist government
  6. 6. (two words in English) for the German name of the war plan of the German armed forces (Wehrmacht) for the Battle of France in 1940. References the shape of a farm tool.
  7. 7. were the more numerous of the two main RAF fighter types in 1940 and shot down more enemy aircraft than the more famous Spitfire.
  8. 8. Radar is an acronym for “Radio Direction and ?"
  9. 11. number of British Destroyers sunk during the Dunkirk evacuation
  10. 13. what fraction of the over 330,000 soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk were French