“Big Week” 1944 : Operation Argument and the Breaking of the Jagdwaffe EPUB
by Douglas C. Dildy
Illustrated by Mr Graham Turner
Part of the Air Campaign series
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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 counter air (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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- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:17/02/2022
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:17/02/2022
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- ISBN:9781472824523