"The armada that seemed without end - there were 4,000 ships, plus thousands of other craft-sailed under a full moon. As the early dawn crept up the coast of Europe, from the rocky cliffs of Brittany to the dunes of of Holland, Allied warships began throwing salvo after salvo into the defenses of the Atlantic Wall. Far behind that wall, glider-borne troops came down on the green, checkerboard fields, battalion after battalion... And Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons on Tuesday that 'massed airborne landings have been successfully effected behind the enemy lines.'"
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