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2014-02-24

GAR D-Day 70 - Pt.3 - Operation ARGUMENT: The 'Big Week' Bomber Offensive, February 1944





Elliott Marsh posted: "By early 1944, Operation POINTBLANK – the Allies’ Combined Bomber Offensive against German Air Force and industrial targets – was well under way, with the British bombing by night and the Americans by day. 20 February 1944 was the beginning of Operation A"

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D-Day 70 – Pt.3 – Operation ARGUMENT: The ‘Big Week’ Bomber Offensive, February 1944

by Elliott Marsh
By early 1944, Operation POINTBLANK – the Allies’ Combined Bomber Offensive against German Air Force and industrial targets – was well under way, with the British bombing by night, the Americans by day. 20 February 1944 was the beginning of Operation ARGUMENT, a week-long sustained assault against Luftwaffe fighter production in central Europe vital to the success of the forthcoming Allied invasion of occupied France. Elliott Marsh writes for GAR.