Distinctive stripes enabled Allied aircraft to easily identify each other during the
Within 15 minutes both bridges were secured Only two of the men in the man killed the first 180 unit were Allied soldiers to die during the invasion The seizure of the bridges among the earliest Allied actions on D Day was quick efficient and almost mistake free Very little else would run as smoothly through the rest of that long day By nightfall on June 6 thousands of German British Canadian and American troops would dead and around beaches lie on the of Normandy STRIPES with thousands of aircraft flying toward France on D Day Allied planners worried confusion could lead to aircraft being shot down by accident To prevent this the wings and fuselages of all Allied planes were painted with large stripes before D Day black and white just This would enable antiaircraft gunners on the ground and fellow pilots in the sky to quickly recognize friendly aircraft 13
As German troops marched through the conquered countries of Europe nearly the entire continent fell under Nazi
CHAPIES DANGEROUS TIMES DESPERATE MEASURES In the spring of 1944 Europe was a closed fortress German dictator Adolf Hitler described it this way and he was essentially correct In 1939 Germany's tanks planes and soldiers had swept into Poland introducing the world to a new kind of warfare The rapid highly coordinated assault became known as blitzkrieg German for lightning war Over the next several years Germany used mobile armored warfare to stun and dominate the continent While the world watched Hitler's troops invaded 15 European nations by 1942 Among the conquered countries was France which surrendered in June 1940 and became German occupied territory For the French people the occupation of their country by their German foes was a catastrophe To see German troops parading
