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Show x Invasion Highlights COAST GUARD: Units of the if: S. coast guard assisted in landing op-erations, op-erations, and marines manned the secondary guns on battleships and cruisers. TRAFFIC CONGESTION: -There are so many planes over there (the French coastal area) that you have to put your hand out when you want to turn," commented Capt. Thomas Montang of West Bend, Iowa, a Thunderbolt flight leader. FOUR YEARS AGO: On June 6, 1940, the French were making a desperate des-perate stand trying to absorb German Ger-man tank thrusts toward Paris, but had to give up 13 more miles. The British had just completed the evacuation of their forces at Dunkirk. Dun-kirk. Prime Minister Churchill declared de-clared that Britons would fight on "until in God's good time the new world with all its power and might set forth to the liberation of the old." |