[Jon]

I have read one account of German tank crew POWS in British hands being moved back from the front actually soiling their trousers when a flight of RAF Typhoons flew over. The Brits said they were terrified beyond belief, just at the sound as they flew past.

Drgonag is correct with all his points, in particular the RAF Typhoon was greatly feared by the Panzer crews, but all the RAF and USAF fighter bombers or just fighters on patrol reduced massivley the movement of troops and supplies towards the front.

It was not uncommon for a single soldier to attract the attention of a straffing attack and again i remember reading a Spitfire pilots account of diving on a single German soldier on a bike in Northern France, as the pilot opened fire the German in a futile but natural act raised his arm to ward of the 20mm canon shells, the pilot said that is the one act he wishes he never did and obviously still haunted him when he wrote the story down.

I feel that without the allied Fighter Bomber D Day would have failed, certainly without the Allied Fighter bomber D Day would not have happened.