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LET’S GET TO IT!
The Tactical Air War
So you thought you were going to be a
“knight of the air,” jousting high in the clean
blue sky, far above the mud and squalor of the
war on the ground.
Instead you nd yourself in a ghter-bomber,
scraping over hostile territory at 200 feet with
the terrain rising to meet you. You’re ying
down the muzzles of antiaircraft guns to attack
the enemy. If cannon re doesn’t get you, the
blast and debris from your own low-level bombing
and strang can bring you down. In this kind of
war, there’s more danger and less glory.
WELCOME TO THE TACTICAL AIR WAR, PAL!
You’re going to use planes like the P-47
“Thunderbolt,” the Fw 190, and the Hawker
Tempest V to stop the enemy’s advance by
destroying his entire arsenal. If you destroy
enough targets, you can change the shape of
the front line and even nd yourself in the
cockpit of a super-secret plane that has not
yet entered service.
The enemy means to dominate the European
Theater of Operations (ETO), and we can’t let
that happen. There’s a lot to do in this war--
let’s get to it!
Air Force Historical Research Agency Photo
The Tactical Air War