By Richard H Kohn, Joseph P Harahan
Air Superiority in international battle II and Korea: An Interview with Gen. James Ferguson, Gen. Robert M. Lee, Gen. William Momyer, and Lt. Gen. Elwood R. Quesada (USAF Warrior stories)
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See Lord Arthur Tedder, With Prejudice: The War Memoirs ofa Marshal of the Royal Air Force (Boston, 1966), pp 410-14, and Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight David Eisenhower (New York, 1970), pp 181-82. “RAF Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham was in 1942 the commander of the Western Desert Air Force. When Lt. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery took command of the British Eighth Army in midAugust 1942, he moved quickly to consolidate army and air force headquarters. This move placed Coningham directly under Montgomery’s control.
Carl A. Spaatz, Eighth Air Force commander, and Air Chief Marshal Arthur T. Harris, commander of the RAF Bomber Command, led the Allied air forces that were committed to the Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany. During the intense planning and marshaling of forces 44 WORLD WAR 11 Quesada: In everybody’s mind the German Air Force was the primary target. I don’t know whether it was written down, and I am having a hard time trying to find out where it came from. I think one of the people that contributed to it in a mighty way was “ F r e d ” A n d e r ~ o n .
My memory tells me it was given to him because of experience. We were confident that we could knock the hell out of the German Air Force wherever it was. We were confident that the interdiction program would succeed and that the German Air Force, in terms of Normandy, couldn’t be very close to it because if they did deploy close to Normandy-which they didn’t, which all of us now know-we could knock the hell out of them. We were confident that our effort against the German Air Force, over Berlin or wherever it was, would succeed.
