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Old June 8th, 2005, 07:29 PM
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The 8th USAAF came to be referred to by the ground troops as the 'American Luftwaffe'.....

But the use of strategic bombers as ground support was fraught with difficulty. Canadian positions were accidentally bombed prior to the Falaise operations : the Canadian troops were using yellow smoke identification markers, the RAF were bombing on...yellow Target Indicators

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