lo, thomas howie. so with this key objective, finally, innis hand, bradley hopes to kind of pivot out of st. l of ao and beyond, i menti the goodwood offensive. originally he hoped to coordinate that with a major offensive by bradley pushing southwest out of st. lo. and both would like -- both want to use the air forces to carpet-bomb the front lines ahead of them. well, because of the weather patterns in normandy the weather was simply too bad in the american sector to launch the offensive, plus the fighting around st. lo is so costly the americans will not be in a position to begin to push until july 24th and that is several days after after the goodwood offensive and coming piecemeal allows the germans to react. to either one of them. so july 24th, 1944, bradley launches what is called operation cobra. he coordinated with the 8th air force in england to bomb in front of his lines, saturate the german lines primarily the panzer lair division in front of the us army decisions, will be bombed heavily b