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Re: What If ?
1. To some extent they did, but did not have enough escorts to go over permanently to daylight- particularly on deep penetration flights
2. Switch probably not practicable by 1943 as too much already invested
3. In decreasing order Gee, Oboe, H2S, GH
4. Definitely, in particular centimetric AI (not just AI IV) should have been released for use over the Continent from early/mid 43. NF squadrons were doing intruder ops in 43 but did could not use fully AI equiped a/c. Isn't hindsight fun, of course the war was going to finish in 45, everybody knew that didn't they, so it was patently safe to risk the more capable technology falling into enemy hands.
5. Could have switched more to precision, though to some extent that happened anyway in the oil and transportation campaigns. The 8th AF was area bombing all the time when they dropped on H2X - everyone was doing it, only some were up front about it.
Regards
MG
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