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SHOT DOWN OVER NORMANDY! RAF Spitfire pilot survives D-Day invasion
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, a total of 57 Royal Air Force Spitfire squadrons were available to No 2 Tactical Air Force (2 TAF) and Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB)—the new and temporary title allocated to RAF Fighter Command—for offensive operations i
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AERIAL ASSAULT The day Fortress Europe fell
In June 1944, the European War had dramatically reversed from four years previously. When Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht conquered Western Europe in 10 weeks, Nazi Germany seemed unstoppable. But since the Battle of Britain in 1940 and the growing Allied b
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Wear the sunglasses that saved the Free World! The men and women who fought in the Second World War were real heroes of our greatest generation. And, although the style was originally designed for the military and then adapted for American WW II figh

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