[Graham Boak]

I hope not to get dragged into a discussion of tactical vs strategic airpower, feeling there are merits in both. However I will simply add here that the German tankers, like the 262 pilots, would just have to suffer whichever attack the Allies choose to apply, having no fuel thanks to the actions of the strategic bomber. Further, the Allied supplies would have been brought into action across sealanes kept open by the strategic bomber in its anti-submarine role, with axis sealanes closed predominantly by the strategic bomber as minelayer, and axis rail routes shattered by, guess what?

But more than that requires a separate thread.