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USAAF Station AAF-474 (RAF Welford)
Near Welford, Berkshire, England
June 5th, 1944, 2325 hours
D-Day. The Dreaded Day, as the Warwolves of the 101st Airborne Division gradually began to call it over the course of their training, had finally arrived, although if you asked Balto and his family, it had really started during the last week of May.
On Wednesday, May 31st--Balto knew the date well, and could track their progress through the calendar based on this alone--their only daughter, Aleu, and her pack of wolves and wolfdogs was suddenly detached from their unit and transferred, along with their handlers, to an airfield farther north, near the border of a place called 'Scotland'. They knew she would stay safe out there, but the mere fact that she was trained as part of a pathfinder unit and therefore slated to go in ahead of them brought great worry to her parents--Jenna especially.
On Thursday, June 1st, the Warwolves conducted their fina
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