James Holland

So bridges... destroy all the bridges over the Seine, destroy all the bridges over the Loire, hit the marshaling yards. The glue that keeps the German war machine together is the Reichsbahn, the German railway network. So destroy the railway as much as you possibly can and make it difficult for the Germans to reinforce the Normandy bridgehead as and when it comes.

So bridges...

destroy all the bridges over the Seine, destroy all the bridges over the Loire, hit the marshalling yards.

The glue that keeps the German war machine together is the Reichsbahn, the German railway network.

So destroy the railway as much as you possibly can and make it difficult for the Germans to reinforce the Normandy bridgehead as and when it comes.

But the way you do that in turn is by very low level precision bombing. And that has to be done by twin engine, faster, smaller bombers going in low. But the problem is, is you can't go low and destroy those bridges if you've got Fokker, Wilson, Messerschmitts hovering above you.

But the way you do that in turn is by very low level precision bombing. And that has to be done by twin engine, faster, smaller bombers going in low. But the problem is, is you can't go low and destroy those bridges if you've got Fokker, Wilson, Messerschmitts hovering above you.

But the way you do that in turn is by very low level precision bombing. And that has to be done by twin engine, faster, smaller bombers going in low. But the problem is, is you can't go low and destroy those bridges if you've got Fokker, Wilson, Messerschmitts hovering above you.

But the way you do that in turn is by very low level precision bombing.

And that has to be done by twin engine faster than

smaller bombers going in low.

But the problem is, is you can't go low and destroy those bridges if you've got Fokker-Wolfe and Messerschmitts hovering above you.

So you've got to destroy those, which is why you need to have air superiority over this large swathe of Northwest Europe to do that. The problem is that while the industrial heartland of Nazi Germany is in the West, is in the Ruhr area, which is very convenient for bombers coming out of Lincolnshire or East Anglia on the east flat east side of Great Britain,

So you've got to destroy those, which is why you need to have air superiority over this large swathe of Northwest Europe to do that. The problem is that while the industrial heartland of Nazi Germany is in the West, is in the Ruhr area, which is very convenient for bombers coming out of Lincolnshire or East Anglia on the east flat east side of Great Britain,

So you've got to destroy those, which is why you need to have air superiority over this large swathe of Northwest Europe to do that. The problem is that while the industrial heartland of Nazi Germany is in the West, is in the Ruhr area, which is very convenient for bombers coming out of Lincolnshire or East Anglia on the east flat east side of Great Britain,

So you've got to destroy those, which is why you need to have air superiority over this large swathe of Northwest Europe to do that.

The problem is that while the industrial heartland of Nazi Germany is in the West, is in the Ruhr area, which is very convenient for bombers coming out of Lincolnshire or East Anglia on the east flat east side of Great Britain,

The aircraft industry is much deeper into the Reich, and it is beyond the range of fighter escorts for the bombers.

The aircraft industry is much deeper into the Reich, and it is beyond the range of fighter escorts for the bombers. And the American daylight bombers who are going over are discovering that despite being called flying fortresses, they're not fortresses. They're actually getting decimated.

The aircraft industry is much deeper into the Reich, and it is beyond the range of fighter escorts for the bombers. And the American daylight bombers who are going over are discovering that despite being called flying fortresses, they're not fortresses. They're actually getting decimated.