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Thunder Over Normandy
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They Dropped From The Skies, Roared Over The Hedgerows, And Turned The Tide Of HistoryThis Is The Untold Story Of The Airmen Who Helped Liberate France.By June 1944, Allied Air Forces Were Ready To Unleash Hell On The Germans In Occupied France. Massive Numbers Of Bombers And Fighters Had Been Assembled In The United Kingdom, As Well As More Than One Million Troops Poised To Invade The Continent. Thunder Over Normandy Tells The Story Of The Air Campaign That Began On DDay, June 6, 1944, And Culminated In The Liberation Of FranceOne Of The Largest, Most Complex, And Most Successful Aerial Operations In History.In April 1944, Allied Air Forces In EuropeIncluding The Vaunted U.S. Eighth Air Force And Raf Bomber CommandWere Placed Under Dwight EisenhowerS Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force And Given A Twofold Mission To Lay The Groundwork For DDay: Destroy The LuftwaffeS Battle Strength And Isolate Normandy From Reinforcements. American And British Heavy Bombers Completed These Tasks With Devastating Effectiveness.DDay Began With The Midnight Launching Of 1,200 Transports To Drop American And British Paratroopers And Gliders Behind Enemy Lines In Normandy. In A Monumental Effort, The U.S. 82Nd And 101St Airborne Divisions Landed Behind Utah Beach And Fought For Towns Like Carentan; The British 6Th Airborne Seized Pegasus Bridge And Other Crossings Near Caen. Toward Dawn, 1,000 Bombers Hammered German Positions Along The Coast, Just Ahead Of The Troops Who Stormed The Beaches.As The Fighting Moved Inland During The Next Two Months, Allied Fighters And FighterBombers Swarmed In To Provide Close Support For The Ground Forces Slogging Through The Hedgerows Of Normandy. The Bombers Continued To Strike German Industry, But Priority Was Now Given To Destroying V1 And V2 Rocket Sites As Part Of Operation Crossbow. Bombers Were Also Used Tactically In Conjunction With Ground Operations, Including The Heavy Bombardment That Preceded The Breakout From Normandy In Late July.By The Time Paris Was Liberated In August 1944, Air PowerThousands Of Sorties, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Tons Of BombsHad Contributed Mightily To Allied Victory. Thunder Over Normandy Details The Air Operations That Made This Happen, From Thundering Bomb Runs And LowLevel Strafing Attacks To Paratrooper Drops, Glider Flights, And Wheeling Dogfights With The Luftwaffe. During The Summer Of 1944, As This Stirring Account Vividly Shows, The Allies Were Truly Masters Of The Air.
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