Originally Posted by
ericferret
Training the crews to the standard would probably have been the problem.
Fair question and fine balance. However the number or aircrew per aircraft would have been far fewer 2:7. The number of replacement crews would have been far fewer given a hoped for reduced attrition.
It would be a massive piece of counter-factual history to reconstruct the whole air war campaign on the premise that Mosquitoes replaced the Halifax and Lancaster and that target sets were smaller but hit harder.
As I said earlier, the workforce is a major part of an industrial target set, a part of the set that would not have been hit as hard with precision bombing. Precision targets can be better and more economically defended with point defence than could the large area targets.