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To: Bilow who wrote (6994)	10/23/2001 8:36:41 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 281500

We are splitting hairs here :-) Time was an important factor. The Allies could not allow the Germans time to develop her war machine. She could have otherwise (possibly) beat Russia and that would have upset the whole apple cart. The Russians had millions and millions of casualties as we both know. You have to attract the fighters up to fight a war on your own terms. The daylight bombing achieved that purpose. What would have you suggested? Fighters just attacking the German airfields? Ground strafing had a high rate of losses. The Germans would have used their smarts too. A lot of the German special weapons programs were geared to defeating the bombing campaign as well. They had no real choice but to try and destroy the bombers....and they got minced. So the question is this. Which was worth more, militarily speaking, one B-17, six A-36s or five P-51s? Interesting to see the actual % proportions of each kind were made. My guess? Every two B17's escorted by five P-51's. During the Battle of Britain the Germans got to the stage where each bomber was escorted by 3 fighters. The Germans very nearly did beat us by bombing the airfields. I agree they lost the initiative when they switched to bombing London. Incidentally Hitler decided to do that after the RAF started dropping the medicine on Berlin. All in all, it's difficult to criticize how WW2 was conducted unless you were actually there reviewing all the factors imho. Enough I'll allow you to win the strategic bombing bit, but only if I win "Japan wins WW2 with nukes after the USA sat on it's thumbs for four yrs" bit. -g-

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