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British air chief marshal Sir Arthur Tedder uses bombers to clear way for troops: British air chief marshal Sir Arthur Tedder was appointed Eisenhower’s deputy supreme commander for the invasion of Normandy. Tedder successfully carried out the Allies’ “Transportation Plan,” which involved bombing French railways to slow down Axis reinforcements during the Allied landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944. His tactic of using bombers to clear the way for advancing troops (“Tedder’s Carpet”) also proved effective at Normandy and elsewhere. April 29: Disaster strikes a D-Day practice run when German naval forces attack an American training exercise, cheap football kit killing more than 600 troops.