Having just watched (and am not re-watching) all 10 episodes of Band of Brothers, I decided to watch two other classic WWII movies in my DVD library, that being The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far. I have noted a similar theme through many of these stories. With the exception of the paradrop scenes showing the sheer scale of these two historic operations (D-day and Market Garden), I am not seeing a whole lot of scenes showing the true air superiority that we had. In one early scene in ABTF we see a German anti-tank unit pounded by 500lb bombs in the trees (interesting they didn't fire their MGs once). But that is the last scene in the movie showing the use of fighter or bomber aircraft. Surely there must have been more than this? There are many scenes of German armor moving at will in Arnhem. Why didn't we just attack everything in plain sight? There are even some similar scenes in Band of Brothers where I wonder "why didn't they call for an air strike?". So my question is... "was our allied air superiority used correctly in that phase of the war?"

Cheers,
Jim