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Re: Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?
It was not Hitler who first envisaged the Me 262 as a bomber, but Willy Messerschmitt, who at least twice told Hitler what a great bomber the Me 262 would make and that it would take just a few weeks to convert the a/c to a bomber. After the 2nd time he told this to Hitler, Hitler gave a Fuehrer Directive for this to be done, but Messerschmitt did nothing. I think that was in either late 1943 or very early 1944. Then in April 1944, when Hitler asked about this Blitz bomber, and found out that Mtt had done nothing, he gave his order that no more fighters would be built until the bombers were completed, and even this order was partially ignored.
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