| 17 Aug 1944 - In three days of continuous air attacks, armoured divisions of the German 5th and 7th Panzer Armies are decimated after being trapped between Mortain and Falaise in France. Of the 2,300 tanks about 120 survived, 10,000 soldiers were killed and 50,000 taken prisoner.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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