"During the first nine hours of the invasion attempt, Allied planes dropped 12,000 tons of bombs on the subterranean forts and concrete pillboxes of Hitler's vaunted 'Atlantic Wall.' The Germans themselves admitted two serious cracks in the wall, in the form of beachheads six to ten miles wide and a mile deep that seemed firmly in Allied grasp. Allied losses, London said, were 'ighter than expected'... From Marseilles to Narvik, from Chrbourg to Ruthenia the steel fingers of allied might sought the throat of Nazidom... the promised day of Europe's liberation."
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