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Old 28th Dec 2018, 07:06
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Originally Posted by SASless

If the RAF and USAF had GPS as t hey do today....WWII would have had a much different Strategic Bombing Campaign.
But if the adoption of technology had followed the same patterns as in the 1930s, the German Air Force would have had superior GPS equipment, before the RAF or USAAF put it into service. As the crucial targets in 1940, like air fields and armaments plants, were mostly clearly located on the excellent Ordnance Survey maps, history might have gone differently well before the bomber offensives.
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