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Balkans yesterday put a number of aircraft on
the ground out of order. Mr. Churchill is in
Rome. The Germans reported our planes over
Vienna today. The Americans who took
Saipan, Tinian and Guam killed 44000
Japanese. Only 100 prisoners were captured
on Guam. After the news the British Quarter
Master General told something about the
preparations that were made for D-day.
In the early days of 1942 we started with these
and ever since then they have gone on unchecked.
We had to arrange for the reception
of hundreds of thousands of American
troops, build camps, hospitals and
deports for them. In Normandy anchorages
have been provided where ocean going
vessels can lie in safety. We are arranging
for a supply of fresh vegetables but that is
a much more difficult problem. Roads
have to be made in Normandy, air strips
built, fuel and water pipes laid and
Royal Engineers do that. The so called
Duck is one of the major inventions of the war.
It is equal on land as on water. On the 3rd
day of the Normandy campaign 492 bags
of letters were delivered to the troops.
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