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Question 1:
Preparedness. When the Pacific fleet of the United States Navy was ordered to rebase from the mainland United
States to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1940, this admiral, a Paris, Texas, native, opposed the move, asserting that the fleet
could be better kept in a state of readiness at home and that the navy was not ready for war with Japan.
Chester W.
Nimitz Ernest J. King James O. Richardson Douglas MacArthur Horatio Nelson
Question 2:
The
Lost Battalion. In November 1941 a Texas National Guard artillery unit of the Thirty-sixth Division was shipped out to
the Pacific. This "Lost Battalion" was captured in the initial wave of defeats suffered by the Allied forces, and its members
suffered in prison camps for the rest of the war. Which island were they attempting to defend when captured?
The Philippines
Hawaii Guadalcanal Australia Java
Question 3:
D-Day. On June 6, 1944, D-Day,
Allied forces began the liberation of France. The Second Ranger Battalion played an important role in the invasion, climbing
the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to capture a key German gun emplacement. Who was the Texan who commanded the unit, and then went
on to become president of Texas A&M?
Audie Murphy Dwight D. Eisenhower Thomas Otto Walton James Earl
Rudder Courtney Hodges
Question 4:
Pearl Harbor. Doris Miller, the first African-American
hero of World War II and a native of Willow Grove, Texas, earned a Navy Cross for manning a machine gun on the battleship
West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. What was his usual assignment on board the ship?
Captain
Bosun's Mate Mess Steward Anti-Aircraft Gunner Radioman
Question 5:
Military Training
in Texas. Following a pattern introduced during World War I, Texas became a major training area for the various branches
of the armed services during the Second World War. How many U.S. Army divisions were trained in Texas between 1941 and 1945?
Ten Twenty-three Twenty Fourteen Thirty-two
Question 6:
Shipbuilding.
Texas shipbuilders experienced a major boom during World War II. Ships of all sorts poured forth from the Orange-Port Arthur-Beaumont
area and Houston. What kind of vessel was the first one completed by a Texas shipyard during the war?
Submarine Cruiser
Battleship Liberty ship Amphibious landing craft
Question 7:
The Medal of Honor.
Of the thirty-three Texans who were awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest award for heroism presented by the United States,
Audie Murphy stands out as the most decorated soldier in American history. He was awarded his Medal of Honor while fighting
in which country?
France Germany Italy Belgium Burma
Question 8:
The "T-Patchers." The Thirty-sixth Division, a unit
of the Texas National Guard that was sometimes referred to as the "T-Patchers" and as the "Texas Army," was in the thick of
World War II. The unit was in combat nineteen months, fought in five major campaigns, engaged in two amphibious assaults,
and captured more than 175,000 prisoners. The division suffered among the highest casualties for any American unit: 3,717
killed, 12,685 wounded, and 3,064 missing in action, or 19,466 total. Perhaps the most controversial of its actions was the
failed assault on which river?
The Rhine The Meuse The Arno The Rapido The Somme
Question
9:
An Aristocratic Heroine. One of the more exotic denizens
of the Texas Hill Country was Rumanian Princess Catherine Caradja, who lived in Comfort after the Second World War. During
the war she heroically sheltered American airmen shot down on the costly raids conducted against which strategic target?
Bucharest Budapest Sarajevo Jassy Ploesti
Question
10:
The Bracero Program. On August 4, 1942, the United
States government signed the Mexican Farm Labor Program Agreement with Mexico, the first of several agreements aimed at legalizing
and controlling Mexican migrant farmworkers along the southern border of the United States. Managed by several government
agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, as a temporary measure to supply much-needed workers during the early years
of World War II, the bracero (Spanish for manual laborer) program continued uninterrupted until what year?
1964
1992 1952 Still going
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