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War’s Ultimate Weapon

attached to what we do here at Flight Journal: all of our focus is on aircraft and their pilots. In fact, as you worked your way through the preceding articles to this final page, you probably couldn’t help but glory in the deeds accomplished by those winged warriors during the D-Day experience. This even includes the ugly ducklings, like the gliders. Our focus is on everythingsoldiers are the point of the lance, and everything else exists to make their mission possible. Airplanes included.

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