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Re: 1939-45 airpower and professional historians
To pick one technical question out of the scrum.
I do not know whether the French had 100 octane fuel or not. If so, I doubt very much that they had other than a limited supply. It would be interesting to have an informed comment. I do know that the British supply was limited (although adequate for the fighters) and dependent upon technology previously developed in the US. Photographs show British fuel bowsers marked with lower octane number(s). I am particularly thinking of a well-used view of a line-up at a Wellington OCU.
The Germans did have a limited supply of 100 octane fuel, at least later in the war. However, it doesn't matter how good their chemical industry was if they were short of the required raw materials.
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