Some things that come to my mind after what´s been discussed according to what I´ve read...

The Bombing behind the lines did have quite an effect later on as the Germans had to leave many tanks behind as they were escaping from Normandy ( Falaise ), or even before as maneuvres were very limited due to lack of fuel. I read the Germans had to send own troops as far as Paris to fetch for fuel. The bombing of course destroyed the lines for the allied as well and slowed down their supplies being delivered!!!

The German Flak "might" have been quite effective on the other hand. The allied "might" have lost quite a lot of planes in Normandy so even if you saw German panzers you would not want to attack them right on with your rockets...
The "might" is because I read on an article that the allied lost about 2,000 planes in Normandy... and I´m not sure on the figure. Sounds quite high to me but maybe someone else knows about this?

Sorry CrazyD,
I think Ripley did not have the figures but then again I read yesterday Michael Reynolds´ LAH in Normandy and I think it had the figures. Gotta check it for next time.I think the figures Ripley had did not include the tanks under repair which means they had more tanks coming like some 20 panthers, 40 PzIV´s and so on..

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