Big Week 1944 : Operation Argument and the Breaking of the Jagdwaffe

Dildy, Douglas C.; Turner, Graham (ILT)

ISBN 10: 1472824512 / ISBN 13: 9781472824516

Published by Osprey Publishing, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Big Week 1944 : Operation Argument and the Breaking of the Jagdwaffe
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472824512
• ISBN 13: 9781472824516
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Turner, Graham
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary “Big Week" air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.

In the years before the outbreak of World War II, there was a general consensus among military strategists that strategic bombing had the ability to win wars. However, no-one could foresee the devastation that German radar-directed interceptors would inflict on large bomber formations.

With the increasingly urgent need to eliminate these German fighter-aircraft prior to D-Day, a concerted two-phase effort, code-named “Operation Argument,” was launched by USSAF. Targeting aircraft factories with hundreds of heavy bombers escorted by the new long-range P-51 Mustang, the operation, now known as the “Big Week” campaign, was designed to destroy aircraft production on the ground and force the Luftwaffe into combat to defend these vital facilities, allowing the new escort fighters to take their toll on the German interceptors. Packed with specially commissioned artwork and maps, this title is a detailed and fascinating analysis of “Big Week”--history's first ever successful offensive counterair (OCA) campaign.

About the Authors

Douglas C. Dildy is a retired US Air Force colonel who retired with approximately 3,200 hours of fast jet time. As commander of the 32d Fighter Squadron, he enforced the No-Fly-Zone over Iraq, making him an expert on F-15 employment. He is a USAF Academy graduate with a Masters Degree in Political Science and has authored numerous books, including To Defeat the Few for Osprey. He contributes regularly to the modelling magazine Small Air Forces Observer and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, specializing in the medieval period. He has illustrated numerous titles for Osprey, covering a wide variety of subjects from the dress of the 10th-century armies of the Caliphates, through the action of bloody medieval battles, to the daily life of the British Redcoat of the late 18th century. The son of the illustrator Michael Turner, Graham lives and works in Buckinghamshire, UK.