John J. Sullivan

Overlord's Eagles

Operations of the United States Army Air Forces in the Invasion of Normandy in World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord, the largest, most hazardous amphibious assault in history. The objective: establishment of a lodgment area in Normandy from which the Allies could strike at the heart of Germany and destroy the German armed forces. Air supremacy over northwest Europe was an absolute prerequisite for the success of the invasion, and to achieve it the U.S. Army Air Forces launched two campaigns aimed at destroying the Germans' transportation advantages in the area. In the months and days leading up to the assault, the Army Air Forces ceaselessly bombed rail centers, rendering most of the railways in northern France and Belgium unusable. Once the actual invasion was underway, the Allies shifted to an interdiction campaign, using precise air attacks on critical transportation installations near the battlefield to neutralize Germany's efforts to resupply and reinforce their troops. This work makes use of many wartime records that had remained classified until recently.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780786423385
• ISBN-10: 0786423382
• Artikelnr.: 21741477

Autorenporträt

John J. Sullivan served ironically enough in a U.S. Marine Corps aviation unit in World War II. He lives in Ormond Beach, Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Lists of Tables, Diagrams, Maps     
Lists of Photographs     
Preface       xiii
Introduction     
I. Air Preparations for Invasion
1. Overlord's Air Command     
2. Eighth Air Force Operations, 1942-43     
3. Eighth Air Force Fighter Problems     
4. The Allied Expeditionary Air Forces     
5. USSTAF's Campaign to Weaken the German Air Force     
6. The Plan to Bomb French and Belgian Rail Centers     
7. Opposition to the Transportation Plan     
8. Air Preparations to Support Invasion Forces     
II. Air Operations in Support of Overlord
9. Attacks on Rail Centers, Oil Plants, and V-Weapons Before D-Day     
10. Attacks on Bridges and Airfields Before D-Day     
11. Air Support for the Landings in Normandy     
12. Close Air Support for Invasion Forces     
13. Counter-Invasion and Resistance Operations     
14. Air Support for the Allied Breakout from Normandy     
15. Reorganization of Eisenhower's Air Command     
III. Evaluations of Overlord's Air Campaigns
16. Surveys of the Transportation Campaign and Inderdiction     
17. German Opinions of Allied Air Campaigns     
18. Evaluations of Allied Air Offensives: Oil, V-Weapons, Aircraft, Road
Junctions, Carpet Bombing     
19. Postwar Debates About Allied Air Campaigns     
Epilogue     
Notes     
Glossary     
Bibliography     
Index