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- From: Christopher Currie <c.currie@CLUS1.ULCC.AC.UK>
- Subject: Re: The advent of "technological secrecy"
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Michael Kovacs" at Sep 14, 92 7:52 pm
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- >
- >
- > In article <8822.9209112300@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk> Christopher Currie
- > <c.currie@CLUS1.ULCC.AC.UK> writes:
- > >> (the Luftwaffe failed to
- > >> develop a strategic bombing strategy).
- > >
- > >What!!!! That's news to us Londoners.
- > >
- > >Christopher
- >
- > were lousy, too. From most accounts, they probably would have succeeded in
- > destroying the RAF if they had stuck to bombing the RAF fields and the radar
- > stations and left the cities alone. By giving the RAF the opportunity to
- > "catch their breath", the Luftwaffe sealed their own fate.
-
- In other words by switching from tactical bombing (against enemy air forces)
- to strategic bombing of cities they lost the campaign. That the strategy
- was bad doesn't mean they didn't develop one. Despite the Alllied Strategic
- bombing Speer was able to increase German war production until well into
- 1944. The effectiveness of this particular bombing strategy, in relation
- to its cost, is still much debated.
-
- The germans did not need to develop long-range bombers because they had
- airfields within medium range of all possible British industrial targets.
- The RAF had also failed to develop long-range protective fighters in
- tandem with their bombers; it was not until the development of the Mustang,
- surely, that the Allies had reasonable command of the skies over Germany.
-
- Christopher
-