Out of every port and shelter indenting the Southern coast of England, from Bristol to the Thames, had emerged, or were emerging nearly 5,000 ships and craft. It gave new life to the men who fought and sweat in the far-spread theatres of the war and to those unhappy ones who starved in the slave labor camps of the enemy. Conviction and resolve were hardened in the minds of free peoples and of those who longed to be free. The news of it brought real, if fearful, hope to unhappy millions under the heel of the "Axis", from Europe's western border to Cathay and the scattered islands of the Pacific.
The Allies had landed upon the captive shores of France.
On a Tuesday morning ten years ago, a world already too accustomed to thrills, turned on its radio and stood transfixed.
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