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Trailing Edge of Airpower:

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TLpq2323919736

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Title Proper

Trailing Edge of Airpower:

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Russell, Nicolas Jean-David

Title Proper by Another Author

Operation COBRA's Legacy in the Development of AirLand Battle Doctrine

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Long, Charles Thomas;Brunsman, Denver

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The George Washington University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

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130

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M.A.

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The George Washington University

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2020

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D-Day is an event that has seated itself in collective memory, particularly America, as a seminal moment of the Second World War, and of the 20th century. Often the Allied landings in Upper Normandy are conceptualized as a watershed moment of the Second World War, signaling the eventual, unavoidable defeat of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Yet, the reality of the situation was far more complicated, as the success of OVERLORD was followed by months of grueling fighting in the Norman bocage. Weeks after the successful landings, the war began to resemble the slow, attritional warfare that had defined the First World War. While the Allies possessed a monumental advantage both in terms of manpower and material, the Germans managed to contain them to a small geographic area, preventing the Allies from bring this advantage to bear. As such, D-Day-though certainly the most well-known aspect of the Normandy campaign-was not the only vitally important operation. In fact, Operation COBRA, the Allied breakout operation, proved to be an inflection point of operations in Normandy. Though it is largely overshadowed by OVERLORD, COBRA proved to be one of the most important military operations in western Europe, allowing the Allies to exploit their massive advantages in material and manpower through a war of maneuver.

AirLand Battle

Airpower

Military thought

Operation COBRA

United States Army

World War II

Long, Charles Thomas

Russell, Nicolas Jean-David

Brunsman, Denver

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