We can't forget about support forces that carried all the supplies.

British Matador O-853

Violette Szabo, operative of the British SOE, unluckily captured in the Limousin by 2 SS Panzerdivision "Das Reich" in the course of its chaotic march to Normandy, June 1944 - at a road-block set up as part of the effort to recover Sturmbannfuhrer Helmut Kampfe (whose capture by the Resistance led to the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre).  Handed over to the Gestapo for "interrogation".  Subsequently transferred to Ravensbruck - the "womens' concentration camp" - where she was executed sometime in February 1945.  She was 23 years' old.  Posthumous honours - George Cross (UK); Croix de Guerre (France); Médaille de la Résistance (France); OBE (UK); Roll of Honour of the SOE (UK/France).  Best regards, JR.

Carve her name with pride ...

The de Havilland Mosquito II DZ231/YP-R of No 23 Squadron, Royal Air Force flying over Malta. The No 23 Squadron, converted to Mosquito IIs in July 1942, moved to Luqa, Malta in December of that year, from whence the long-range intruder missions were flown to targets in Sicily, Italy, Tunisia and Southern France. Victor Sierra