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Old 27th Dec 2018, 17:39
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The Luftwaffe would have shot down a lot more too.
Had the RAF and USAF launched a thousand airplanes each....day and night....to say three hundred targets scattered all over Germany.....how would the Luftwaffe have coped with such a wide area to defend?

The Flak Batteries would have to be spread out more, fighters would have further to go to reach the many bombers, and diversions would be much simpler to devise.

The idea of miles long streams of bombers flying the same route and to the same destination and fighters (day and night) being able to make like Orca's going after schools of Sardines would not have been possible.

But with GPS which could be pilot operated for navigation....who would serve up the Pies and Tea?

Bomb Aimers would be out business as well....but then who would wake up the Nav to have the inflight meal served.
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