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“Big Week” 1944
- Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe
Engelsk Paperback
“Big Week” 1944
- Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe
Engelsk Paperback

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A rigorous new analysis of America''s legendary ''Big Week'' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.

The USAAF’s mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the devastation that German radar-directed interceptors would inflict on them. Following the failures of 1943’s Schweinfurt-Regensburg raids, and with D-Day looming, the Allies urgently needed to crush the Luftwaffe’s ability to oppose the landings.

In February 1944, the Allies conceived and fought history’s first-ever successful offensive counter­air (OCA) campaign, Operation Argument or “Big Week.” Attacking German aircraft factories with hundreds of heavy bombers, escorted by the new long-range P-51 Mustang, it aimed both to slash aircraft production and force the Luftwaffe into combat, allowing the new Mustangs to take their toll on the German interceptors. This expertly written, illustration-packed account explains how the Allies finally began to win air superiority over Europe, and how Operation Argument marked the beginning of the Luftwaffe’s fall.



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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
96
ISBN-13:
9781472824516
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1472824512
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Udg. Dato:
17 feb 2022
Længde:
8mm
Bredde:
248mm
Højde:
185mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
17 feb 2022
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