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 infantry battle—the breakout from the beaches and the fight to clear the enemy from Normandy—would not be won for another seven weeks, but command of the sky had already been secured in six weeks of
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