sentences:  As support for the ground operations, the Allies planned their largest tactical bombing of the war, employing more than 4,500 planes.After the chain of disasters in the summer of 1944, the Allies expected the Wehrmacht to be unable to recover, but this was not the case.Although manpower losses were enormous, the Wehrmacht sought to compensate for this with transferring of men from the Reserve Army, the Luftwaffe and the "Kriegsmarine" into frontline troops for rebuilding their forces.