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Churchill, with misgivings,...

history · 23 June 1944 · 80 years ago

Churchill, with misgivings, gave in to pressure from the Americans and sanctioned operation Anvil (the proposed US-French invasion of the south of France). Churchill called this a "Bleak and sterile exercise". 

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