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You Won’t Believe This One Weird Trick They Used to Fly Beer to the D-Day Troops in Normandy

By Bolanrox

You won’t believe this one weird trick they used to fly beer to the D-Day troops in NormandyOriginally posted on Zythophile:

Normandy, 70 years ago, and one of the biggest concerns of the British troops who have made it over the channel, survived the landings and pushed out into the bocage against bitter German resistance is not the V1 flying bomb blitz threatening their families back home, nor the continued failure to capture the port of Cherbourg – but the lack of beer in the bridgehead. On 20 June 1944, two weeks after D-Day, Reuter’s special correspondent with the Allied Forces in France wrote to newspapers in the UK that all that was available in the newly liberated estaminets a few miles inland from the beaches was cider, “and it is pretty watery stuff. I saw a British private wistfully order a pint of mild and bitter: but the glass he sat down with contained the eternal cider.”

Spitfire droptank fuelling
Tangmere, Sussex, July 1944: in front of a Spitfire IX of 332 (Norwegian)…

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You won’t believe this one weird trick they used to fly beer to the D-Day troops in Normandy

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