DE NUAGES ET DE FEU. Guerre aérienne sur les Ardennes d'Anvers à Bodenplatte.

On December 16, 1944, American lines held the sparse front of the Ardennes were the most powerful artillery barrage that the forces of a dying Third Reich would ever launch on the Western Front, opened with the Normandy landings. six months ago.
Then, the most powerful armored force ever concentrated by the Germans for an offensive on this front would have spread. All under a low cloud ceiling sheltering allied air power the precious panzers of the 6th and 5th armored armies, launched towards Antwerp.
Low ceiling ...
And yet ... The aerial fights that would occur over the Ardennes or because of the land battle that took place there have nothing to envy the superlatives of land combat: massive commitments on both sides, tactical and strategic support, bombers or jet fighters, parachuting of men, food or ammunition, successful, failed or impossible, ...

The heavens of the Ardennes have given history a major page of the air war and we propose to describe it in the pages that follow.