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Re: Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?
What an interesting discussion!
But what is the conclusion? Should any aircraft, let alone the Me262, have been used as a bomber?
I think not.
There was a need for armoured aircraft with guns to destroy tanks, artillery and ships.
And a need for a divebomber with pin-point accuracy against strongpoints, ships and artillery.
And a need for a bomber like the Mosquito to take out the German electricity generation and distribution system, and the synthetic fuel plants.
But that, in my humble opinion, was that. These needs would require about 10% of the nation's GNP, and not the 40 to 50% absorbed by Bomber Command.
The 30 to 40% of GNP that was available should have been used to give the army better tanks and equipment so that they could have had equality with the Wehrmacht instead of inferiority.
The military cemetaries would then have been far smaller.
Germany survived for six years because it had no strategic bombing force.
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