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The ‘Transportation Plan’: Preparing for the Normandy invasion

American bombing attack on the railyard at Chalon, France in spring 1944 turned the facilities into a mass of twisted steel and rubble. Allied operations planers, however, discovered that most railyards required several periodic attacks to keep them unusable. (USAAF archival photo)

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