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Sunday punch in Normandy : the tactical use of heavy bombardment in the Normandy invasion : an interim report

CONTENTS Planning the Operation i Eighth Air Force Aims and Commitments .... 4 Transition From a Strategic to a Tactical Role ... 13 Eighth Air Force Assignments in Relation to the Over-All Cooperation Plan 19 Operations 2 June-17 June 1944 22 Subsidiary Operations 29 Enemy Air Reaction 29 ILLUSTRATIONS Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz Frontispiece Eighth Air Force Over-All Plan facing 2 Angouleme Marshaling Yard 5 Pre-Dawn Assembly Plan facing 8 Fighter Bombing and Strafing Operations .... 10 Beach Scene, Showing Craters T 4-i5 1st Bombardment Division Target Area . . . facing 18 2nd Bombardment Division Target Area . . . facing 20 3rd Bombardment Division Target Area . . . facing 22 Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle 23 Beach Scene Landing Craft Offshore .... facing 28 Le Mans Airfield After Attack 30 Digitized by http://www.afhso.af.mil/ · "Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence; from reports prepared by Eighth Air Force."

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