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D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: "I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself into my seat I felt tense, strange and extremely nervous. It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the barrack room at Bulford Camp. Whilst we laughed and sang to raise our spirits - and perhaps to show others that we were no scared - personally I knew that I was frightened to death. The very idea of carrying out a night-time airborne landing of such a small force into the midst of the German army seemed to me to be little more than a suicide mission. Yet at the moment that the glider parted company with the ground I experienced an inexplicable change. The feeling of terror vanished and !was replaced by exhilaration. I felt literally on top of the world. I remember thinking, 'you've had it chum, its no good worrying anymore - the die has been cast and what is to be, will be, and there is nothing you can do about it.' I sat back and enjoyed
This encouraged them to launch immediate offensives after their beaches became sucured. The bomber chiefs were agreed on their missions, but not on their choices of targets. On the next day, however, a short break in the weather pattern emerged, leading Eisenhower to give the go-ahead for D-Day. Luckily for the Allies, a significant amount of Ultra was being deciphered by the Allies in 1943 and 1944. Before the U-Boat threat was removed in May 1943, the Germans maintained several weather stations throughout the Atlantic. By this time, it pr!obably would have been too late, as the Germans would have been better fortified. This disparity was a distinct disadvantage for the Germans. " The Allied generals were provided every conceivable piece of information about the Germans; their military command structu!res, the identity and operational strength of divisions being sent to Normandy, and German strategy. In May 1943 they gave the project its code name and started preparations. " Background of D-Day: The Second World War had started almost five years ear, on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. By this point, it was a foregone conclusion that the Germans had lost. The 15th Army (the largest army in Western Europe), instead of moving !south to encounter the Allied forces, remained in Pas de Calais. After May 1943, the Germans were largely ignorant of Atlantic weather patterns.
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