D-Day 1944: Air Power over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond

Operation Overlord, the Normandy invasion-likeWilliam the Conqueror's before it or the Inchon landing afterwards-will long be studied as a classic in military planning, logistics, and operations. Overlord depended to a remarkable degree upon the use of air power in virtually all its forms. A half-century ago, aircraft were primitive vehicles of war compared to the modern attackers of the Gulf War era" with their precision weapons,advanced navigational, sensor systems, and communications. Ye...