Ninth Air Force Invasion Activities, April Thru June 1944, Part 1 - Paperback

by 9th Air Force (Created by)

This document contains information on the operations preparatory to the invasion (attacks on airfields, communications targets, coastal batteries, reconnaissance activities), tactical redeployment, provision of facilities for air ground cooperation (conferences ground liaison officers, air support parties, cooperation with units afloat, coordination facilities at Uxbridge, final instructions, developments), the Ninth Air Force plan for Operation Neptune- tactical air plan (planning procedures, analysis of plan and its annexes), D-Day operations (IX Troop Carrier Command, bomber and fighter commands, total effort), and operations subsequent to D-Day (rail interdiction program, attacks on highway communications/gun positions and defended localities/other targets, reconnaissance, etc.).