Airfix A50192 D-Day Fighters Gift SetThe importance of the role air power played in the months leading up to D Day cannot be overstated, with the Allied powers knowing that securing superiority of the skies over the proposed landing beaches could be the difference between success and failure of the entire operation. That being the case, Allied air forces were committed in ever increasing numbers from the end of 1943, attacking airfields, supply infrastructure and other strategic targets,