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Originally Posted by Abraham
@ joea:
The Allied Bombing Offensive was led by people who desperately wanted to proof - at whatever human cost - that bombers could win the war single handed.
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Spot on.
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joea - the delay in weapons... well, Germany towards 44 virtually had no control over the skys in western europe. only place luftwaffe was actually strong was in eastern front. So delay in weapons there was, but the focus on bomber and not on fighers was a mistake too. Not to mention lack of docrine which forced air force to be used with ground forces.
It's like you are missing a bit the main point: the docrine allies used was just inferior to germany, and so it took them many failures to get something done right. Usualy by just overwhelming the germans.
PS. I doubel checked the figures on effectivenes. It was 120 allied soldiers that were equivalent to german 100, and figure for soviet soldier was 200 to 100.