In 1942, with the threat of an Allied invasion looming, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of one of the largest military fortification systems ever built. Known as the Atlantic Wall, it stretched more than 3,100 miles along Europe's western coastline,
"Without the B-17, we might have lost the war." — General Carl Spaatz, Commander of the US Strategic Air Forces in Europe. Imagine standing at the edge of an English airfield in 1943, the early morning fog lifting over the countryside