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Originally Posted by tcolvin
Shortage of spares? servicing capacity? - I don't think so.
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Go to Kew and start reading the 2TAF Air Staff correspondence. Spare parts for some types were a concern to DAF in the Med by late 1944 so it would be unwise to discount the possibility of analogous problems in other theatres. Another issue for Britain was declining manpower (cf. Max Hastings' writing). The British Army was disbanding divisions not long after D-day and IIRC 2 TAF was disbanding squadrons in 1945.