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Originally Posted by Kapitain
Could have done the same job at night as the RAF did.
would have saved alot of men
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Not necessarily remember the Luftwaffe’s air defenses were all geared towards night attackers. When the USAAF began daylight bombing all the Luftwaffe’s Bf109s and Fw190s that were needed for offensive operations (Guarding the bombers and CAS aircraft) were suddenly relegated to defending Berlin. So no they could not have bottled up the Luftwaffe’s daylight fighters with nighttime raids.
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If the germans had done that then they could have based FW200 condors and other long range bombers there and bombed the east coast.
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Don't forget their was a large USN force based on the east coast just for something like this (centered around the USS Wasp CV-7 and several Battleships) I think that any Caribbean Island invaded would have been subject to massive USAAF and USN attack from Carrier planes and land based bombers followed by the USMC.