As the landing boats carrying the troops headed toward the beaches in the heavy chop, General Kuter’s concern disappeared. The air was full of Allied fighters and “columns of Flying Fortresses stretched back to England as far as the eye could follow.” There were no signs of German fighters. The “Hun never showed up,” Kuter wrote later. “He couldn’t because he had nothing left.” On this world-turning day, the Luftwaffe flew fewer than 250 sorties against the most powerful invasion force ever assembled to that time. The
