Suggested Readings
This booklet has been adapted and edited from the author's
Strike From the Sky: The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1911-1945
(Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.) AAF Evaluation Board in
the ETO, The Effectiveness of Third Phase Tactical Air Operations in the
European Theater, 5 May 1944-8 May 1945. Dayton, Ohio: Wright Field, Feb. 1946.
Copy in the archives of the U.S. Military History Institute (MHI).
Bayerlein, Fritz. 'Panzer-Lehr Division
(24-25 Jul 44).' Manuscript A-902. N.p. Historical Division, Headquarters, U.S.
Army, Europe, n.d.
Bennett, Ralph. Ultra in the West: The
Normandy Campaign 1944-45. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979.
Blumenson, Martin. Breakout and
Pursuit, a volume in the series United States Army in World War 11. Washington,
D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1961.
Bradley, Omar N., and Air Effects
Committee, 12th Army Group. Effect of Air Power on Military Operations, Western
Europe. Weisbaden, Germany: U.S. 12th Army Group Air Branches of G-3 and G-2,
July 15,1945.
Bradley, Omar N., and Clay Blair. A
General's Life: An Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
Collins, J. Lawton. Lightning Joe: An
Autobiography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Coningham, Arthur. 'The Development of
Tactical Air Forces.' Journal of the United Services Institute 9 (1946).
Craven, Wesley Frank, and James Lea
Cate, eds. The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol.2, Europe: Torch to
Pointblank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.
----. The Army Air Forces in World War
II, Vol. 3, Europe: Argument to V-E Day. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1951.
Demoulin, Charles. Firebirds! Flying
the Typhoon in Action. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Crusade in
Europe. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1948.
----. Supreme Commander's Dispatch/or
Operations in Northwest Europe, 6 June-8 May 1945. SHAEF, n.d. Document
catalogued as D756 A24c c.2 in the MHI library.
Eisenhower, John S.D., Strictly
Personal. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974.
Ellis, Lionel F. Victory in the West.
Vol. 1, The Battle of Normandy. London: HMSO, 1962.
Golley, John. The Day of the Typhoon:
Flying with the RAF Tankbusters in Normandy. Wellingborough, Eng.: Patrick
Stephens, 1986.
Hastings, Max. Das Reich: The March of
the Id Panzer Division through France. New York: Jove Books, 1983 ed.
----. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle
for Normandy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
