Bob Coe wrote:

It took years of strategic bombing to even have a Normandy.


Yes and no. Yes, the Strategic Bombing campaign did syphon off resources and
men that would have been manning positions at Normandy, but it did not make the
Germans short of any equipment or resources. Within a few months of D-Day, the
POL shortages would begin, but on D-Day the Germans had plenty of POL.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"