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The RAF's Road to D-Day - The Struggle to Exploit Air Superiority, 1943-1944 (Hardcover)
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The RAF's Road to D-Day - The Struggle to Exploit Air Superiority, 1943-1944 (Hardcover)
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By the summer of 1943, the Third Reich’s fate seemed sealed. The
combined might of Britain and the Commonwealth nations, the United
States and the Soviet Union had made a Germany victory impossible.
All that remained to decide was how the Allies should complete
their victory. Would strategic bombing decide the outcome or would
ground and air forces working together play the more significant
role? Greg Baughen follows the air and land battles in Italy,
France and Germany between September 1943 and September 1944, as
well as the equally bitter battles behind the scenes as army and
air commanders debated and argued over how the war should be won.
He charts the trials, tribulations, and successes of the bomber
offensive and assesses whether, in the final analysis, it made any
contribution to the success of Normandy landings. He explains how
army air support went backwards after the successes of the Desert
Air Force, and how this led to a failure to support the troops
landing on the D-Day beaches in Normandy. He also describes the
subsequent revival of tactical air support and how it went on to
play a key role in the subsequent campaigns but questions whether
Eisenhower, Montgomery or Tedder ever fully understood how to make
best use of the massive aerial forces available to them. Drawing on
archive documents and accounts written at the time, the author
tackles some fundamental defence issues. Was RAF independence a
benefit or a hindrance to the Allied cause? To what extent was the
War Office to blame for shortcomings in army air support? Did
Britain understand the way the methods for waging war were evolving
in the twentieth century? He takes a look at how the Air Ministry
was interpreting the lessons being learned during the war. Were the
defence policies of the twenties and thirties still valid? Had they
ever been valid? This, then, is the story of the decisions and
actions that the RAF followed in the months leading up to D-Day and
how air operations evolved in the subsequent campaign.
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