Research Catalog

Title

D-day : the air battle / Ken Delve.

Author

Delve, Ken

Publication

Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire : Crowood Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

192 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

In the weeks and months leading up to D-Day, the RAF and USAAF waged a concerted campaign against German fighter bases, troop depots, road and rail junctions and ammunition and fuel dumps: any target that would impede the German forces' ability to repel the liberating army. This book - the product of detailed research in original documents - tells the story of the D-Day air campaign, with the aid of 200 archive photographs.'

Subject

• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The long build-up -- The air battle builds to a climax -- June 1944 -- Allied order of battle, June 1944 -- Allied air forces available for the assault on Normandy -- Bomber command operations 1-7 June 1944 -- 356th FG statistical analysis for June 1944 -- Air operations flown between 21:00 hours 5 June and 19:00 hours 6 June 1944 -- Planned reorganization post-invasion (the Bigot plan) -- Allied airfields in North-West Europe.

ISBN

1861267045

OCLC

• 56019375
• SCSB-11783016

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library