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Originally Posted by spidge  Does this make more sense? |
It does, though even taking into account the RAF, USAAF etc, it would still have been sorties. I shall check the details later but here the RAF missions for the 5/6 June period
The Royal Air Force operations in support of D-day
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HyperWar: The US Army Air Forces in WWII: D-Day 1944 Quote:
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Altogether, the tactical air forces had 2,434 fighters and fighter-bombers, together with approximately 700 light and medium bombers available for the Normandy campaign.
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Apart from the pre-DDay bombings, most of the heavy bomber commitments to the beach-heads was just before the troops landed, and were an almost complete failure because the bombed too far behind the beaches. It was the fighters and fighter-bombers who provided most of the close support