Air Fronts: Theaters of Operation - European Theater of Operation: Sunday Punch in Normandy - Over-all Air Cooperation Plan

Wings at War Series, No. 2 ; Sunday Punch in Normandy. THE TACTICAL USE OF HEAVY BOMBARDMENT IN THE NORMANDY INVASION: An Interim Report; Published by Headquarters, Army Air Forces Washington, D. C., Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, From Reports Prepared by Eighth Air Force. CONFIDENTIAL. US GPO 1945. (declassified)

Over-all Air Cooperation Plan

In order to envisage the scope of the Eighth Air Force role in the projected over-all air effort, the commitments, as previously enumerated, may be compared with the following aims of the entire aerial program:

1. To attain and maintain an air situation whereby the German Air Force is rendered incapable of effective interference with Allied operation

2. To provide continuous reconnaissance of the enemy's dispositions and movements

3. To disrupt enemy communications and channels of supply by air attack

4. To support the landing and subsequent advance of the Allied Armies

5. To deliver offensive strikes against enemy naval forces

6. To provide air lift for airborne forces