Word: knockouts
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Like a beaten boxer reeling toward a knockout the German Army had seen the blow coming. It was powerless to parry it. The punch struck hard from the Mediterranean, and the southern coast of France became a new front to be fought by an army already presenting a strange study in military schizophrenia...
...Knockout. There could be no formal report, of course, yet top airmen Tedder, Spaatz, Harris, Anderson, Eaker, Brereton and the rest must be turning over in their minds what such a report should be. It would be short of the claims of Billy Mitchell, but in the main it would nonetheless be favorable...
True, Germany had not been knocked out by air. But equally true was the fact that air power had not been given either the scope or the time to swing for that knockout with its full weight...
...Knockout When? Air power will maintain constant pressure on the Luftwaffe up to D-day and afterward. Against a foe who apparently hoards his remaining planes the Allies cannot expect to score a complete air knockout in advance...
...Allied airmen are prepared to protect invasion forces. They believe that Germany will have to commit all her hoarded air power almost immediately; that the real air knockout will probably follow swiftly...