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XIX Tactical Air Command and ULTRA :

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XIX Tactical Air Command and ULTRA :

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Patton's force enhancers in the 1944 campaign in France /

Bradford J. "BJ" Shwedo.

Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. :

Air University Press,

[2001]

1 online resource.

CADRE paper ;

no. 10

"May 2001."

Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 7, 2003).

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Key players -- Breakout in Brittany -- Mortain counteroffensive and the Falaise Gap -- Tale of two rivers : Seine and Loire -- Allies back the wrong horse : Patton's cavalry stopped -- Conclusions and implications.

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Gen George S. Patton Jr. remains one of the most storied commanders of World War II. Patton's spectacularly successful drive across France in August-September 1944 as commander of the US Third Army was perhaps his greatest campaign. Many biographers have attributed Patton's achievements almost exclusively to his masterful employment of armor and to an innate sixth sense that enabled him to anticipate the moves of his opponents. Drawing heavlly on declassffied ULTRA intelligence reports, the records of XIX Tactical Air Command, and postwar interrogations of German commanders, Maj Bradford J. Shwedo's XIX Tactical Air Command and ULTRA: Patton's Force Enhancers in the 1944 Campaign in France sheds new light on Patton's generalship and suggests that Patton's penchant for risk and audacity may have been less the product of a sixth sense than of his confidence in ULTRA and tactical airpower. Timely and highly accurate ULTRA intelligence afforded Patton knowledge of German capabilities and enabled him to shape his operations to exploit mounting German weakness. Airpower provided top cover, punched through German concentrations, guarded Patton's right flank, and furnished crucial airlift support while disrupting enemy lines of communication. Whatever Patton's personal intuitive gifts, he deserves full marks for skillfully integrating the ground scheme of maneuver, airpower, and intelligence into the overall strategy of the Third Army. Major Shwedo shows in some detail how Patton used both ULTRA and conventional operational intelligence to identify German vulnerabilities and then coordinated ground maneuver forces and airpower to exploit those vulnerabilities and create new ones. The synergy between courageous leadership and airpower, highly mobile ground forces, and superb intelligence-each creating opportunities for the other-took the Third Army and XIX TAC from Normandy to within 50 miles of the German border in less than 45 days.

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XIX Tactical Air Command and ULTRA : Patton's force enhancers in the 1944 campaign in France

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Patton's force enhancers in the 1944 campaign in France

Patton, George S., (George Smith),1885-1945.

Patton, George S., (George Smith),1885-1945.

United States.-- History.

United States.

Close air support.

ULTRA (Intelligence system)

World War, 1939-1945-- Campaigns-- France.

World War, 1939-1945-- Cryptography.

World War, 1939-1945-- Military intelligence-- United States.

World War, 1939-1945-- Regimental histories-- United States.

Close air support.

Cryptography.

Military campaigns.

Military intelligence.

Regimental histories.

ULTRA (Intelligence system)

France.

United States.

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Shwedo, Bradford J.,1963-

Air University (U.S.)., Press.

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