Invasion Airfields: Then And Now
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1870067916 | 224 Pages | EPUB | 56 MB
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1870067916 | 224 Pages | EPUB | 56 MB
In his 1945 report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the success of Operation ‘Overlord’, the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower wrote that "on the morning of June 9 I was able to announce that for the first time since 1940, Allied air forces were operating from France, and that within three weeks of D-Day, 31 Allied squadrons were operating from the beach-head bases."