When the Allied air forces planners were examining ways to keep the Germans from moving supplies to the Normandy area, they initially focused on destroying French roads and railways, but the problem was that even with a direct hit, those could be quickly repaired.
[The British air commander, Arthur Tedder] asked some British railway engineers, "What attack would hurt them most? Their answer: repair facilities. "If you destroy those, the network will soon be paralyzed."
[Source: The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower by Michel Paradis]
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