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Scattered Into Darkness: The Airborne Night That Saved the Beaches
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Before a single ramp dropped at Omaha, 13,400 Americans were already falling blind over occupied France — and almost nothing went to plan. This is the airborne insertion that determined whether D-Day would hold at all.
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Before the first landing craft dropped its ramp, before the first soldier hit the sand at Omaha or Utah or anywhere else, thirteen thousand four hundred Americans were already falling through darkness over occupied France. The beaches are the image that history kept.
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