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| | Canada's Air Force, History, World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Ground strafing on armed reconnaissances, which steadily nibbled at the Wehrmacht's armoured fighting vehicles and motor transport, reached a climax in the four days in mid- August when the Nazi Seventh Army, caught in a pocket between Falaise and Argentan, sought to escape eastward. |
 | | From dawn to dark, Spitfires and Typhoons raked the long columns of vehicles with cannon and machine-gun fire and left the roads strewn with blazing, smoking, shattered wrecks. |
 | | At one time or another, while Coastal was fighting the Battle of the Atlantic and clearing the seas for the invasion of North-West Africa and the landings in Normandy, seven RCAF squadrons served under its banner. |
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