D-Day 1944: The Deadly Failure of Allied Heavy Bombing on June 6
D-Day 1944: The Deadly Failure of Allied Heavy Bombing on June 6 An illustrated study of the little-known history of the failed Allied bombing campaign designed to shatter German defenses on…
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D-Day 1944: The Deadly Failure of Allied Heavy Bombing on June 6
An illustrated study of the little-known history of the failed Allied bombing campaign designed to shatter German defenses on D-Day.D-Day is one of the most written-about events in military history. Unfortunately, this failed series of attacks resulted in death or injury to hundreds of soldiers, and killed many French civilians.Despite an initial successful attack performed by the Allied forces, the most crucial phase of the operation, which was the assault from the Eighth Air Force against the defenses along the Calvados coast, was disastrous. One aspect of the invasion, however, continues to be ignored: the massive pre-assault bombardment by the Allied Expeditionary Air Force (AEAF), reinforced by RAF Bomber Command and the US Eighth Air Force on June 6 which sought to neutralize the German defenses along the Atlantic Wall.
The bombers missed almost all of their
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Last Day of June
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