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Re: Operation Steinbock question
Hello
As RT wrote the main point is was the damage done worth of resources used. And IMHO they were not. The 2 late Feb attacks on London were rather successful and time to time some railway infrastructures were hit or blocked but usually bombing was very bad and the British got idea of intended targets only after interrogating PoWs and/or from maps found in wrecks.
On the attacks on harbours which Kurfürst mentioned, according to Ken Wakefield in his article on Oper. Steinbock in The Blitz Then and Now Vol 3
29/30 April on Plymouth, 101 sorties flown by LW, 8 tonnes of bombs hit Plymouth
14/15 May on Bristol, 91 sorties, 3 tonnes hit Bristol
15/16 May on Portsmouth, 106 sorties, 1,4 tonnes hit Portsmouth
22/23 May on Portsmouth, 104 sorties, 1,5 tonnes hit Portsmouth
27/28 May on Weymouth, 28 sorties, 13 tonnes hit Weymouth
28/29 Mat Falmouth, 51 sorties, missed altogether but 18 KIA, 6 MIA and 6 badly injured in Torquay
With that sort of accuracy IMHO the attcks were not worth of fuel used, even less so to crews lost. To my understanding the critical factor to LW was crew casualties, they had difficulties to replace combat ops capable lost crews.
Juha
Ps Brian Bines
Thanks a lot for Your statistics.
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