| Allied Heavy Bombers were used in the close support role in the area around Caen and in support of the American Cobra offensive. Considering the "friendly fire" causalties, civilian deaths and the destruction to road nets, was the use of Heavy Bombers counter-productive in Normandy?
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"Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction."
(Major General Oliver P. Smith USMC responding to reporters when asked why the 1st Marines were withdrawing from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950.)
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