So Tony, the American bombers (B-17, B-24, B-29) were also a massive waste?
ETO losses
B-17 - 4,754
B-24 - 2,112
That is almost the same as the number of Lancs built.
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Britain won against Napoleon by defeating his army in the field and occupying Paris.
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Only because of the massive amounts of money was spent on the RN. Was the RN a waste?
One German leader (Speer?) said that the SBC cost the Germans 30% of its manufacturing production. That is 30% more guns, tanks, airplanes that the 1,000, 000 persons that the Germans had manning the Flak, fighting fires, clearing rubble and so on that could have been better used on the front lines defending the Reich.
How were the petro and chemical industries to be knocked out without the bombers?
What did it cost the Soviets in their tactical ground war against the Germans? Would the British population have supported such massive causalities?