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"Big Week" 1944 - Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe (Paperback)
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"Big Week" 1944 - Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe (Paperback)
Series: Air Campaign
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Discovery Miles 3 890
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A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air
campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before
D-Day. The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed
for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the
devastation that German radar-directed interceptors would inflict
on them. Following the failures of 1943's Schweinfurt-Regensburg
raids, and with D-Day looming, the Allies urgently needed to crush
the Luftwaffe's ability to oppose the landings. In February 1944,
the Allies conceived and fought history's first-ever successful
offensive counter air (OCA) campaign, Operation Argument or "Big
Week." Attacking German aircraft factories with hundreds of heavy
bombers, escorted by the new long-range P-51 Mustang, it aimed both
to slash aircraft production and force the Luftwaffe into combat,
allowing the new Mustangs to take their toll on the German
interceptors. This expertly written, illustration-packed account
explains how the Allies finally began to win air superiority over
Europe, and how Operation Argument marked the beginning of the
Luftwaffe's fall.
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