Julian Hale: Normandy 1944 | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781472865809 | Normandy 1944 | The 'Transportation Plan' to cut D-Day communications

Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.

Sprache: Englisch

22,45 €

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

auf Lager, Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage

Kategorien:

Beschreibung

Packed with illustrations, this is the first book to focus on the 'Transportation Plan', the air campaign to isolate the D-Day beaches from German reinforcements.

Über den Autor

Julian Hale read History at Lancaster University and completed an MA on the RFC and RAF in the Middle East during World War I. In 2012, he joined the RAF Museum and catalogued the Jack Bruce Collection, an archive of World War I and inter-war aircraft and personnel images. He was the Assistant Curator for the Museum's Centenary Programme until June 2018 and is the author of The RAF: 1918-2018 and Women in Aviation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGY
ATTACKER'S CAPABILITIES
Organization
Intelligence
The Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Aircraft
The US Ninth Air Force
RAF Bomber Command
The Pathfinder Force
The United States Strategic Air Forces
Precision Bombing
The Resistance
DEFENDER'S CAPABILITIES
The allied bombing of France to 1944
The target: The French railway network
The Day Fighters
The Night Fighters
Flak
Passive Defence Measures
The German Army in the West
CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES
Zuckerman's plan
The issue of command
The American counter-proposals
THE CAMPAIGN
Allocation of targets by the AEAF
Bomber Command's operations before the 25 March meeting
Revised Tactics
Bombing accuracy
The Campaign intensifies
The Campaign continues
The Allied Expeditionary Air Force
The tactical campaign
The Resistance contribution
The German reaction
Assessing the course of the campaign
AFTERMATH AND ANALYSIS
The Allied view
The German view
The question of casualties
FURTHER READING
INDEX

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Air Campaign
ISBN-13:	9781472865809
ISBN-10:	1472865804
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hale, Julian
Illustrator:	Turner, Graham
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Air Campaign
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	244 x 181 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Julian Hale
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.06.2025
Gewicht:	0,298 kg

Artikel-ID: 133373366