[BroJoeK]

henkster: "I remember “All Agony” air..."

In the great Super Bowls of the 1970s, the greatest Steelers dominated Cowboys and Pittsburg's old Agony Airlines became Youse'n Airlines.

Now, Youse'n is merged with All Y'all Airlines headquartered Dallas-Fort Worth.
So in the end, the world is turned upside down, "dogs and cats living together", and Cowboys dominate Steelers.

But all that is far-far in the future.
Today (1944) we're concerned with whether US Air bombers or naval artillery is better for defending our guys on a beachhead in France...

I vote for naval artillery.

[Tax-chick]

It seems to me that the question is, which - naval or air - is more likely to hit the enemy, instead of our people?

[henkster]

I also vote for naval artillery to secure a beachhead. The naval guns kept the Germans at bay at both Salerno and Anzio. In Normandy, the Germans will be unable to assemble any panzer counter-attack forces within range of HMS Warspite.

They really didn’t like the 15 inch rifles on Warspite.

[colorado tanker]

I also vote for naval artillery. IIRC, on D-Day we will see some daring skippers expose their craft to German land-based fire to support the landings.

Within range, naval gunfire is much more accurate than our bombers.