By Lynn Austin

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They watched their sons, their brothers, and their husbands enlist to struggle a growing to be risk around the seas. And whilst their country requested, they replied the decision to boot. Virginia longs to discover a function past others expectancies. Helen is pushed via a loneliness funds can't satisfy. Rosa is wanting to flee her in-laws ideas. Jean hopes to end up herself in a man's global. below the typhoon clouds of destruction that threaten the US through the early 1940's, this not likely amassing of ladies will adventure existence in occasionally starling new methods as their ideals are challenged and so they fight towards a brand new figuring out of what love and sacrifice really suggest.

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They were back in Oxford, living near a factory, and he hoped there were no bombing raids that night. Beside Howard sat Lieutenant Den Brotheridge, whose wife was pregnant and due to deliver any day (five other men in the company had pregnant wives back in England). Howard had talked Brotheridge into joining the Ox and Bucks, and had selected his platoon for the no. 1 glider because he thought Brotheridge and his platoon about the best in his company. Another reason was that they were mostly Londoners like himself.

The pilot, twenty-four-year-old Staff Sergeant Jim Wall-work, of the Glider Pilot Regiment, anticipated casting off any second now that he had seen the surf breaking over the Norman coast. Beside him his co-pilot, Staff Sergeant John Ainsworth, was concentrating intensely on his stop watch. ' Howard suffered from air sickness and had vomited on every training flight. This flight, however, was an exception. Like his men, he had not been in combat before, but the prospect seemed to calm him more than it shook him.

Gale decided to drop his division east of the Orne River, about five to seven miles inland, in the low ground between the Orne and the River Dives. The main body would gather in and around the village of Ranville, and would guard the bridges over the Orne Canal and River. Specially-trained companies would capture and destroy the four bridges over the River Dives, then fall back on Ranville; others would destroy the German battery at Merville. Central to Gale's plan was taking and holding the bridges over the Orne waterways, without which the 6th Airborne would be unable to receive tanks, trucks, and other equipment from the beaches.

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