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D-Day 1944: Air Power over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond

D-Day 1944: Air Power over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond

Paperback

Series: U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II

Air Combat

ISBN10: 150777432X
ISBN13: 9781507774328
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 30 2015
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Operation Overlord, the Normandy invasion-likeWilliam the Conqueror's before it or the Inchon landing afterwards-will long be studied as a classic in military planning, logistics, and operations. Overlord depended to a remarkable degree upon the use of air power in virtually all its forms. A half-century ago, aircraft were primitive vehicles of war compared to the modern attackers of the Gulf War era with their precision weapons, advanced navigational, sensor systems, and communications. Yet, the airplane still had a profound impact upon the success of the invasion. Simply stated without air power, Normandy would have been impossible

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