D-Day Bombers: The Veterans' Story
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D-Day Bombers: The Veterans' Story

RAF Bomber Command and the US Eighth Air Force Support to the Normandy Invasion 1944

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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D-Day Bombers: The Veterans' Story

RAF Bomber Command and the US Eighth Air Force Support to the Normandy Invasion 1944

About this book

This book is largely an eye-witness account of the heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war in Europe. It is told using considerable first-hand experience from the veterans of the campaign, something not really covered in any other books on the subject, together with background information from primary source documents on the tactics and strategy employed. Eight different aircrews, five RAF and three USAAF, tell widely differing stories of operations before, during and after D-Day. Their vivid and dramatic accounts are supplemented by numerous contributions from other aircrew and ground crew veterans, army personnel and French civilians, which have been carefully gathered by Stephen Darlow from interviews with veterans and their relatives, through correspondence and contemporary diaries. Certain raids have been selected and described in detail and there are numerous previously unpublished photographs.As Winston Churchill wrote:
'…This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this island but in every land, who still render faithful service in the war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded…'Here is their story, sixty years on.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Introduction
  3. Prologue
  4. Part One: Flightpath to D-Day
  5. Chapter 1: RAF Bomber Command’s New Recruit
  6. Chapter 2: Americans over Berlin
  7. Chapter 3: Night Battles over Germany
  8. Chapter 4: The Inescapable Commitment
  9. Chapter 5: Arming the Resistance
  10. Chapter 6: The Price of Liberation
  11. Chapter 7: Spaatz’s Oil Plan
  12. Chapter 8: Tactical Bombing
  13. Chapter 9: A Night Battle over France
  14. Part Two: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
  15. Chapter 10: ‘It’s on Boys. D-Day!’
  16. Chapter 11: ‘This is it!’
  17. Chapter 12: Intruder
  18. Chapter 13: Enigma
  19. Chapter 14: Shot Down
  20. Chapter 15: Flying Bombs
  21. Chapter 16: Supporting the Army
  22. Chapter 17: Blasting Caen
  23. Chapter 18: The American Breakout
  24. Chapter 19: Falaise Pocket
  25. Chapter 20: Conclusions
  26. Chapter 21: To the End of Hostilities
  27. Epilogue
  28. Appendix 1: Chain of Command
  29. Appendix 2: Commitment to Targets
  30. Appendix 3: Air Attacks on Civilians
  31. Appendix 4: Normandy, Front Lines
  32. Appendix 5: Control of Strategic Heavy Bomber Forces
  33. Sources and Bibliography
  34. Footnotes to Chapters
  35. Index