What happened to the Luftwaffe? | Aerial warfare on D-Day

This time IWM curator Hattie Hearn looks at the aerial battle for Normandy. How did the Allies win air superiority? Where was the German response to D-Day? And how did Allied air power affect the fighting on the ground?

The 78th Fighter Group at Duxford: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/d-day-remembered-78th-fighter-group-at-duxford

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