"Big Week" 1944. Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe

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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 land

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