Leaping the Atlantic Wall Army Air Forces Campaigns in Western Europe, 1942–1945

Tells the story of the allied air forces breach of the Atlantic wall of Hitler's "Fortress Europe" The heavy bombers were most successful in their missions against the enemy's petroleum industry and in disrupting the transportation network. Although the enemy showed extraordinary resourcefulness in moving supplies, by spring of 1945 Allied air power had bombed the German economy into shambles and virtually paralyzed the transportation network. The Army Air Forces' achievements against Nazi Germany vindicated much of its prewar doctrine, proved its evolving tactics in strategic and tactical air war, and laid the foundation for a strategic air arm iin the postwar period.
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