I think that the air contribution to ground operations is undergoing a searching re-evaluation which is tending to reduce its importance. recent stuff I've looked at - Buckley, Copp and Hart point out that the bombing of German coastal defences on D-Day was a failure as a destruction bombardment, that the air did indeed believe that it should concentrate on what it knew it could do well (blockade of the battlefield) but tried to avoid admitting this to the Ground Commanders, that there were all too many attacks on Allied soldiers and equipment by aircraft when they did operate over the battlefield and that the number of German tanks they destroyed was miniscule.

Tedder's denigration of Monty's Command in Normandy is a matter of record.

~~~~~would denigrate their betters~~~~~ can someone mean this and not be either an elitist prick or a brown noser of elitist pricks?