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D-Day Armada
There was never a greater concentration of air power deployed in an active
theater of war as over the English Channel in May and June 1944. As D-Day
approached, the USAAFs Ninth Air Force had assembled over 3500 aircraft a day,
they were pounding enemy positions all the way from Pas de Calais to the coast
of Normandy. 6 June 1944, arguably the most decisive single day in modern
military history, saw the sky filled with waves of troop carrying aircraft
towing gliders, dropping over 20,000 highly trained men in support of the massed
sea-borne landings on the beaches below. Grabbing all the airspace they could
find, the combat wings of the Ninth Air Force were creating havoc among the
German ground forces as they scrambled to get troops and armor to the
battlefront. |
