We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/dday_in_the_air.html Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The bombers rise ponderously from their fields scattered across southern England, climbing in great circles through the clouds as the squadrons form up into their boxes, reach their cruising altitudes, and head out across the Channel, with 4 missions in direct support of the largest sea-borne invasion yet attempted in history. Other bomber streams head off into other areas of Europe, to keep the Germans off-balance.At first light, 659 of 882 B-17s and 418 of 543 B-24s in 8th Army Air Force hit coastal targets in the area of the invasion beaches between Le Havre and Cherbourg. The overcast and... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/dday_in_the_air.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/dday_in_the_air.html Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:47:58 -0600