The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume III¶
Craven, W. F., & Cate, J. L. (1951). The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume III: Europe - Argument to V-E Day, January 1944 to May 1945. University of Chicago Press.
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- Shaping Operation
- Pre-D-Day air interdiction cutting German rail and road movement before the Normandy landings is the canonical case: months of bombing reduced the Wehrmacht's ability to reinforce the landing sector, producing the field-state against which the amphibious assault operated with reduced resistance.
This sourceCraven and Cate's official history records the spring-1944 transportation plan, whose object was to cripple the French railways so the Germans could not build up their forces by land as fast as the Allies could land theirs, and judges the interdiction the air forces' most important contribution to the Normandy victory. The pre-D-Day Allied rail interdiction before Normandy as the canonical shaping case (Craven & Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II, vol. III).
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“There was no question about the need to cripple the railway system in France to the point where the Germans could not build up their forces by land as fast as the Allies could pour theirs in by sea.”
- Pre-D-Day air interdiction cutting German rail and road movement before the Normandy landings is the canonical case: months of bombing reduced the Wehrmacht's ability to reinforce the landing sector, producing the field-state against which the amphibious assault operated with reduced resistance.
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