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By Mack Maloney
North the USA has been reclaimed from the Soviet warlords, yet deep within the frozen Siberian wastes, last-ditch parts of the Evil Empire plan to annihilate the loose international in a single ultimate rain of nuclear loss of life. Now, Hawk Hunter, the Wingman, will adopt his so much perilous mission--an most unlikely 6,000 mile solo bombing run deep into the deadly middle of the enemy's place of origin to avoid wasting his nation from extinction.
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In total over 14,000 individual sorties were flown on D-Day Including vttel antl-submartne patrols in the EngUsb Channel. The LufhvaUe could manage only 500 sorues In response. Belo'''! A US fighter Is hastily rearmed by its ground crew. The AEAF swamped the German Lufh,•affe by sheer numbers. rs and Hghler-bon1bers and over 4,300 bombers of all sues. To counter that force, the Luftwaffe In France, Belgium and Holland could Onl)' raise about 500 aircraft of au types. Allied air supertortry wes absolute.
In total. nearly 25,000 men had been landed for a cos-I of roughly 1,000 casualties. A real concern for General BucknaU, however, was that the. commandos were still outside Port-en-Besstn and no oontaet had been made with \hQ Amertcans. ue o\ \he \~n\'b\e \>&UM~"'-" taken place on Omaha. The Allies knew that the success of the D-Day inva5ion depended on the speed wtth '~hlch reinforcements could be brought ashore and a lodgment area secured. The task of preventing the Germans from reinforcing faster than the Allies fell to the eneren of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force (AEAF), which consisted of the British 2nd Tactical Air Force and the US 9th Alr Force, under the overall command of Air Chief Marshal SlrTtaUord LeJgh·Mallory, RAF.