D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: "I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself into my seat I felt tense, strange and extremely nervous. It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I …showed first 75 words of 3308 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3308 total…December 1944; this surprised the Allies but did not affect the outcome of the war. By this point, it was a foregone conclusion that the Germans had lost. Four months later, Adolf Hitler ended the "Thousand Year Reich" with a bullet to his head. Bibliography: - D-Day R.W. Thompson. - World War- II – Milton Dark - The Story of D-Day- Bruce Bliven, Jr. - Microsoft Encarta 99 Reference Suite. - D-day website: http://normandy.eb.com/