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Re: Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?
Everything that goes around, comes around, and some factors may be important, enev when not evident. A case in point - the Jumo engine and the alloys needed to get it to run dependably for more than 10 hours. The fact that crucial metals were not available in quantity to make those alloys was a triumph of the Royal Navy, which ended blockade-running from the Far East before the end of 1943 and had, in fact, reduced it to near-zero proportions well before that.
As of January 1944 the Luftwaffe had a substantial bomber force which, if maintained, might have made a crucial intervention on 6-7-8 June 1944, and might even have inflicted considerable damage on ships in port a month before D Day. But it was thrown away in "The Little Blitz". Twenty-odd Me.262 fighter-bombers could never have had the impact of 200 well-directed Ju.88s.
That said, if D Day had failed, what would the probable outcome have been ? American A-bombs on Germany ? Or the Red Army "liberating" Europe right up the the Atlantic coast. Germany was beaten even before D Day. The only way she could have salvaged even a stalemate in the East was for the British and Americans to suddenly decide that they feared Stalin more than they hated Hitler !
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