Behind the 4.000 ships, thousands of assault craft, and the gliders which took the Allied invaders across the Channel, under the protection of a giant air umbrella were more than three years of military planning, training and building up of equipment. Everything that science and forethought could devise was at the disposal of the men who carried out the job. They were backed too by the all out effort of the people of Britain, who since the time of Dunkirk, had worked and sacrificed to re-establish our armies on the mainland of Europe.
In planning, preparation and execution the invasion of Normandy was an Allied undertaking. Allied navies escorted the heavily laden ships across the submarine-infested waters of the North Atlantic to Britain, the great base from which the operation was mounted. The British workers built immense camps and airfields to accommodate the flood of American men and equipment, railways were mobilised for their transportation.
The free governments of the overrun European nations trained their forces and fostered the spirit of resistance in occupied Europe. Slowly and painstakingly, in the face of enemy air bombardment and determined attempts to cut vital supply lines, the tempo of preparation increased, culminating in the avalanche of men and metal that fell upon the German Army in Normandy on June 6 1944.
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