D-Day

Exam Practice (click here for the full markscheme)

Extraction from a Source (markscheme)

Allied troops go ashore from a landing craft, 6 June 1944 - an official photograph.

  

What does Source A tell us about D-Day?

   

Utility (markscheme)

A British Air Navigator, remembering what things were like on D-Day.

It was wonderful.   There they were, marching in to die, just as if they were going to a ball game… The Germans had hidden themselves in cliffs facing the beach and were pouring deadly mortar fire down upon the advancing Americans…   They did not have any cover except bomb-made mounds, but they pushed forward, with men falling every way you could look.   It was heart-breaking….

  

How useful is Source C to an historian studying D-Day?   Use Source C and your own knowledge to answer the question.

   

Evaluation of an Interpretation (markscheme)

Written by SLA Marshall, The Atlantic Monthly (1960).

Normandy was an American victory.

  

Is the view given in Source D an accurate interpretation of what happened on D-Day?   Use Source D and your own knowledge to answer the question.

         

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