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[santana]

June 1944
German tanks and troops either on the move or dug in and waiting in the Normandy countryside consisting of bocage (hedgerows) and narrow roads.

They are camouflaged, prepared and concealed from constant Allied aerial attacks, which was the main cause of the high losses in their numbers.

 

[BravoZulu]

"One of us must keep flying"
Spoken by Irene Arckless, after she learnt that her fiancé F/Lt Thomas Mitchell Lockyer had been shot down on 22 February 1941, and parachuted into the sea off of Calais and was now a POW in Stalag Luft III.
2nd Officer Irene Arckless (1916 - 1943) of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) at the organisation's HQ at White Waltham Airfield in Berkshire, June 1942.
Irene was killed when her Airspeed Oxford (V3888) Crashed onto a house on the outskirts of Cambridge when an engine cut out during take off, on 3rd January 1943, a day after her 28th birthday.