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Название: The Normandy Air War 1944
Автор(ы): Anthony Tucker-Jones
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2019
Страниц: 146
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 66 MB

The support provided by the Allied air armies to the preparations for the invasion of France and the Normandy campaign is overshadowed by the dramatic and protracted fighting on the ground. Yet the air campaign played a key role in blinding and isolating German forces in northern France in the months preceding the D-Day landings. These Allied air forces then supported the Allied armies as they pushed inland, most notably by hampering the march of Hitler's panzer divisions and controversially bombing the ancient Norman cities of Caen and Rouen