I assumed command at SHAEF with the best all-around team for which a man could ask. Some had already been working for months in England, others I brought with me from the Mediterranean. We adopted, first, a master plan, and then had to coordinate every last detail of the Ground, Sea and Air plans. While this was going on, we led off with an air show designed to make the landing points as soft as possible, to batter the German communications, and to make certain we’d have control of the air. It was quite a show - those Airmen did a magnificent job. Later in the campaign, they once flew over 14,000 sorties in a single day.