Word: d-day
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...number needed for the job may be 1,000, or 1,500, or more. The weapons are at hand. But D-day is, too. The final test of air power will not come in this...
...D-day of invasion was approaching, and on D-day one major phase of the world's first great air campaign would end. In that phase, air power alone had attacked Germany in the west...
...After D-day there would still be strategic bombing-Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz's day bombers would perhaps be as busy as they are now and Air Chief Marshal "Bert" Harris would still send his heavies deep into Germany by night. But the strategic bombers would no longer have the show entirely to themselves, to put their theories, tactics and tools to the only real test. What they had accomplished by that day would have to stand as the interim report on air power used as a single weapon against a big and highly developed industrial nation...
Londoners got a forcible reminder that D-day was near. After months of polite warnings and genteel posters asking "Is your journey really necessary?" the authorities abruptly canceled long-distance passenger trains all over the country. At some stations as many as 50 trains were taken off without notice...
...beachhead front and the Cassino front at last were one, and this was high drama for home-front folks leaping at headlines. The Allied offensive in Italy formed the southern prong of the promised triple attack on Hitler's heartland. With things going so well in the south, D-day in the west and the pounce of the Russian giant could not be far behind...