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...were staggered by the Eighth Army's size, power, organization and mobility. Roaring and rumbling bumper-to-bumper for miles on end were convoy after convoy of tanks, armored cars, Bren-gun carriers, lorries full of troops, petrol, food and ammunition, motorcycles, staff cars and ambulances, red-faced tankmen in black berets, Indians, Scots, Tommies, New Zealanders, Australians and Americans. all directed with incredible precision...
...attack was scheduled for daybreak. In the close-packed boats moving toward the Continent, men loaded the magazines of their Bren guns and checked equipment. It was a hot, muggy night on a lifeless Channel...
...three-inch mortar. They had never fired an anti-tank rifle. They had never fired an anti-aircraft machine gun. They had never fired a submachine gun. They had never fired a rifle grenade. They had never thrown a live bomb . . . the Winnipeg Grenadiers had never even fired their Bren guns and, until just before their departure, had never fired service ammunition with their rifles...
...barges, again laden, made off to their mother ships. One of the naval-escort vessels ran aground on a sandspit, survived a curtain of German fire. One of the barges put back toward the shore to look for missing stragglers, found none, then loosed a last burst of Bren-gun fire at the Germans. Dawn was rising when the party turned home to England...
...such plane could carry a pay load of between three and four tons. Daily round trips by 100 planes could carry 9,000-12,000 tons a month - as much as the Burma Road carried. The planes could carry most of the things trucks did - pack mortars, field mortars, Bren guns, small machines, engine parts, medical supplies and radio equipment. Four tons per plane of high-octane gasoline would make the planes a small but perhaps life-saving pipeline for fuel...