[Juha]

Hello Jim
IIRC, I wasn’t unduly impressed by “Decision In Normandy, The Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign", by Carlo D'Este and IIRC read only parts of it. It seems that I have no recollection of D’Este’s arguments. It’s rather long time ago when I last time looked the book. So, did he wrote that Allied lacked a proper dive-bomber? I asked this because in British sector German front line was within RN artillery range almost the whole time of the slow advance of Allieds. And that situation was because the decision of Hitler, against the will of his generals, who were very impressed by naval firepower and wanted to withdraw their troops southwards outside the range of RN guns. Now I cannot think what dive-bomber could do but naval guns with aerial spotters couldn’t. What was D’Este’s opinion?

Juha