MILLWOOD HOUSE

Readers of World War II history know that the heavy bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, based in England, along with those of Britain's Royal Air Force set the stage for D-Day on June 6, 1944, by neutralizing Nazi Germany's war-making infrastructure: production plants, energy sources, and transportation hubs. That was the mission and purpose of the Allied Strategic Bombing Campaign. General Eisenhower was not about to put 150,000 men on the Normandy beaches with the German Airforce, the Luftwaffe, still a potent threat... What the history books never told us, however, was that by the end of 1943, with only five months to go until D-Day, the bombing campaign had failed in that mission. Why? Because of the dreadful European weather. Winter, late fall, and early spring were often stormy and mostly overcast. Since the start of the U.S. bombing campaign in 1942, statistics revealed that seventy to eighty percent of all planned bombing missions were scrubbed or recalled. The Eighth Air..

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