WI: D-Day Security Totally Blown

I'm not so sure you can count so much on air support

In his book 'Overlord', Max Hastings comments of poor air to ground co-ordination "As a result of out inability to get together with the air in England, " wrote Bradley, "we went into France almost totally untrained in air-ground co-operation." Brigadier Richardson said, "In North Africa we seemed to have got the air busuness right, yet we had lost some of it in Normandy."

The experience of British forces around Caen suggests air support could have been better. Some of the footage i've seen from those battles suggests a lot of the German guns were pretty well exposed as well, even if that was not the case, it does suggest a failiure of Forward Air Control / Close Air Support.

You are right. It was my mistake. I wrote "CAS", but I was actually thinking about the whole thing, lock stock and barrel.
For instance, air interdiction behind the battlefield, i.e. beyond the CAS area. Plenty of missions were flown for that on D-Day, and the fighter-bombers came home with rockets under their wings, not having found a target on the roads leading up to Normandy. I was also thinking about continued strategic bombing against the rail network, etc.
 
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