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Air-Ground Teamwork on the Western Front (Wings at War №5)

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Air-Ground Teamwork on the Western Front (Wings at War №5)

Air-Ground Teamwork on the Western Front (Wings at War №5)
Center for Air Force History | 1992 | ISBN: 0160381320 | English | 60 pages | PDF | 21 MB


This work describes close air support and battlefield interdiction in action. A single, month-long campaign—the famous thrust across northern France in August 1944 of Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army and Maj. Gen. O. P. Weyland's XIX Tactical Air Command—became a model for close cooperation between army and aviation forces in future conflicts. This day-by-day, blow-by-blow account shows how the ground forces raced forward, frequently 20 miles per day, because friendly air power protected their flanks, shielded them from the Luftwaffe, and devastated the opposition in front of them.