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Old 8th February 2007, 11:44
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Re: Opinions please (impact Allied fighter bombers on D-day)

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Originally Posted by mkenny View Post
And the other side of the coin, the effort put into building the heavies could be diverted to making the Allied Armies/Navies much more powerful.
Not if the planes stopped working in June 1944. You can't switch an aircraft plant into making ships; in fact to convert it to anything else, find the machine tools, retrain the workers and get it back into production would probably take a year.

Even switching from making one type of aircraft to another caused considerable delays in production.
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