Sometime during the spring of 1944, Allied commanders concluded that their air forces had secured air superiority over an area stretching from Great Britain to central France as well as parts of Belgium and Holland.
Driving the German Luftwaffe from western European skies was a costly process paid for with the blood of Allied airmen. Though there was no definitive “air superiority” moment, Allied intelligence confirmed pilot reports. Over France, the Luftwaffe had little stomach for a dogfight.
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