American Occupied England: Life in the D-Day Staging Zone
Nov 24, 2018 Andrew Knighton
By the time the D-Day invasion was launched in June 1944, the south of England had spent months filled with soldiers preparing for war.
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Americans and Canadians left many Britons feeling as if their own country had been occupied, even if it was by a largely friendly force. It was a strange period, both exciting and unsettling.
An Army in Waiting
Over the winter of 1943-4, troops assembled along the British south coast. These were the men who would liberate Europe from Nazi occupation, an international force drawn from a dozen countries, ranging from entire British armies down to a single Luxembourgian artillery unit.
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