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The air marshals and generals have mapped out the air phase of the invasion. The kids I used to know at Kelly Field in San Antonio, among others, were the ones who made it succeed. A story of this war can't be told properly until the story of certain civilians is told, such as those inside France who have been awaiting and fighting for liberation these last four years.

Not much is known about what the French people have done to help the invasion so far. far. A good guess is that they're doing plenty. At least it's clear what side they're on. Main-thereforce fires return to England this afternoon to tell how French farmers and their families wave eagerly to the Allied players as they rounded up farming animals and heard

of them to places of safety. Today's story must include mention of that prototype of John Voll, Winston Churchill, who set the House of Commons cheering with his optimistic reports on the invasion's progress. It must include mention of Britain's King George, who unashamedly called his people to prayer. There was General Charles the Gold, one of the few important

Frenchmen who wouldn't concede French defeat in his country's darkest hour, and who now is an England to watch the beginning of his homeland's liberation. But the important guys today were the G.I. Joe's and their buddies on the sea and in the air, wearing the uniforms of America, Britain, and the countries which Hitler once

foolishly thought he had conquered. And today's story must include mention of the people on this island, those people who were pledged by their prime minister four years ago last Sunday to fight on the beaches and the landing grounds and in the streets, but never surrender.