Air War D-Day

Air War D-Day

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Air War D-Day The Build Up Author:Martin W. Bowman Language:English Format:Hardcover Dimensions:6" x 9" Pages:256 Publisher:Pen and Sword Aviation ISBN:9781781591192 Item No. 9781781591192 For the Allies as well as Germany, it will be the longest day'. So said Field Marshall Erwin Rommel of the operations on D-Day; and he was correct. This is the first volume of a most impressive tribute and comprehensive five-part work that includes a multitude of personal military and civilian accounts of the aerial operations which were carried out on D-Day. At fifteen minutes after midnight on 6 June 1944 ‘Operation Overlord’, the Allied invasion of Hitler’s Festung Europe, became reality. The logistics of landing almost 250,000 men by amphibious craft seems almost unimaginable, yet a massive aerial umbrella of 3,000 RAF and USAAF fighters, fighter-bombers and heavy bombers, headed for France and more than 1,000 transport airc

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