Aircraft from the station downed 151 Luftwaffe planes and 89 V-1 flying bombs.
Luftwaffe planes and Kriegsmarine submarines saw that few succeeded.
Hitler had promised his generals that a thousand Luftwaffe planes would hit the beaches on the day of invasion.
However, every week a Luftwaffe plane was able to break through the blockade and supply the garrison.
Cullerton, a flying ace, destroyed twenty-seven Luftwaffe planes during the war.
So he'll keep that Luftwaffe plane until 2008?
Approximately 120 Luftwaffe planes were supporting the German forces.
Some of the last remaining Luftwaffe planes in the area had also made a bombing attack; that, too, had failed.
But now the strange noise was growing louder, and competing with the roaring engines of the eight Luftwaffe planes in transit.
He added, "I didn't see a single Luftwaffe plane."