THE SECRET BRITISH WEAPON | BURIED | UNDERGROUND | FOR DECADES
6 June 1944. The Normandy coast. The largest amphibious invasion in the history of human warfare is already twelve hours old, and it is already running dry. Not of men. Not of courage. Not of ammunition or artillery or the grim, industrial will to press forward into machine-gun fire. No - it is running dry of petrol. The lifeblood of modern mechanised warfare. The fuel that keeps tanks rolling, aircraft screaming across the sky, and lorries grinding forward along roads not yet wrested from German control. By nightfall on that first extraordinary day, Allied planners are already staring at calculations that should terrify them. Every Sherman tank, every Spitfire, every DUKWamphibious vehicle grinding up the sand at Utah........
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