Subject: The greatest missions were tactical, not strategic
From: (BUFDRVR)
Date: 9/1/2004 8:36 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Bob Coe wrote:

It took years of strategic bombing to even have a Normandy.


Yes and no. Yes, the Strategic Bombing campaign did syphon off resources and
men that would have been manning positions at Normandy, but it did not make
the
Germans short of any equipment or resources. Within a few months of D-Day,
the
POL shortages would begin, but on D-Day the Germans had plenty of POL.


BUFDRVR


But it was tactical bmbing that cut the Germans off from Normandy. They had
plenty, they just couldn't move it forward as we sliced up the roads and rail
lines and took out the bridges.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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