Certainly victory will not come from air bombardment alone.

And it needed to be 40 minutes after first light, so a naval and air bombardment had time to deal as best they could with coastal defences.

In order to collapse tunnels too deep for the demolition teams to find and crush, the village was then subjected to heavy air bombardment.

The intense ten-day air bombardment had substantially reduced the defenses.

However, the high command decided otherwise, concluding that naval and air bombardment would hopefully neutralize, or in the best case, eradicate, enemy opposition.