As Germany attempted to launch a counter-offensive, following the successful Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944, they must have hoped that poor weather would restrict the flight operations of RAF Typhoon attack fighters. Armed with powerful Hispano 20mm cannon and either 500lb bombs or eight unguided rockets, marauding Squadrons of Typhoons were capable of decimating Wehrmacht armored units, if they caught them in open ground.
As the Allies advanced towards Germany, the Typhoons of the Second Tactical Air Force kept an airborne stranglehold on German ground operations and destroyed anything that may have been of use to the enemy, when the weather permitted.
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