This would involve bombing the towns and villages at important communications junctions, and Leigh-Mallory proposed warning the French civilians by dropping leaflets and making radio broadcasts. His suggestions did not meet with the ...
On 13 November 1943 authority was given for the formation of the AEAF (Allied Expeditionary Air Force), with Leigh-Mallory confirmed in command. The title ADGB (Air Defence of Great Britain) was also authorised with 'Fighter Command' ...
Before Allied soldiers set foot on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, American and British bombers helped pave the way by pounding German positions on the shoreline and farther inland, a vital mission that continued as the ...
Reissued for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, D-Day Bombers: The Veterans' Story is largely an eyewitness account of the vital heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war ...
War crimes investigators brought four Germans to trial. This book tells the story of ordinary family men who became cold-blooded killers, and of Tempest pilot Bill Maloney who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.