The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II

D Day 1944

Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond

• Introduction
• Planning for Overlord
• Air Power: Critical to Success on D-Day
• The "Desert Fox" on the Beaches
• Assembling the Allied Tactical Air Forces
• D Day: Air Support on the Beaches
• Radar Adapted to the Battlefield
• The Air-Armor Partnership
• The Tank's Formidable Enemies
• Allied Air over the Battlefield
• A Dispirited Rommel
• The Heavy Bomber in Air Support
• The Price of Victory
• Cobra: Key to Breakout
• TacAir Omnipotent: Mortain and the Falaise-Argentan Pocket
• Closing the Gap at Falaise
• The Corridor of Death
• The Legacy of Air Power at Normandy
• Suggested Readings