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2014-06-04

GAR [New post] D-Day 70 – Pt.15 – Operation OVERLORD: The Transportation Plan




Elliott Marsh posted: "The Allies recognised a simple, undeniable fact when planning Operation OVERLORD: Rommel must not be able to muster inland reinforcements to crush the invasion forces at the Normandy beachhead.  The very success of D-Day depended on it.  So began perhaps "

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D-Day 70 – Pt.15 – Operation OVERLORD: The Transportation Plan

by Elliott Marsh
The Allies recognised a simple, undeniable fact when planning Operation OVERLORD: Rommel must not be able to muster inland reinforcements to crush the invasion forces at the Normandy beachhead. The very success of D-Day depended on it. So began perhaps the most important phase of the OVERLORD air plan; the sustained and devastating assault of railways and bridges in northern Europe. The German occupiers were about to feel the full effect of the Allies' "Transportation Plan". Elliott Marsh writes for GAR.







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Video: D-Day "The Royal Air Force 1945/1947 Part 5/6 - The Air Plan" (including Typhoons & Mitchells)

The Transportation plan was a vital task performed by Allied air forces to disrupt the logistic of the German army before, during and after D-Day. This movie published after WW2 depicts the roles of the 2nd Tactical Air Force until the liberation of Brussels




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