Ebook: Big week: six days that changed the course of World War II
- Tags: Military campaigns, Military operations Aerial, World War 1939-1945--Aerial operations, World War 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front, History, Electronic books, United States. -- Army Air Forces -- History -- World War 1939-1945, Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force -- History -- World War 1939-1945, Germany. -- Luftwaffe -- History -- World War 1939-1945, Germany. -- Luftwaffe, Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force, United States. -- Army Air Forces, World War 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, World War 193
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Edition: Berkley Caliber trade paperback edition
- Language: English
- epub
In just six days, the United States Strategic Air Forces changed the course of military offense in World War II. During those six days, they launched the largest bombing campaign of the war, dropping roughly ten thousand tons of bombs in a rain of destruction that would take the skies back from the Nazis . . .
The Allies knew that if they were to invade Hitler's Fortress Europe, they would have to wrest air superiority from the mighty Luftwaffe.
The plan of the Unites States Strategic Air Forces was extremely risky. During the week of February 20, 1944—and joined by the RAF Bomber Command—the USAAF Eighth and Fifteenth Air Force bombers took on this vital mission. They ran the gauntlet of the most heavily defended air space in the world to deal a death blow to Germany's aircraft industry and made them pay with the planes already in the air. In the coming months, this Big Week would prove a deciding factor in the war.
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