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Re: What If ?
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2. No, reasons as given by Graham
3. Gee, even after Germans began jam it, it gave accurate fixes during the first part of flight, so navigators got good idea of prevailing winds and so made subsequent navigation much easier. And it helped in finding the home base on return trip. And H2S, even if as active radar made homing to it possible, it was not constricted by range or limited to only small number of planes per raid as Oboe and helped much in navigation accuracy.
4. probably, anyway the Stirling shot down near Rotterdam gave magnetron to Germans very early 1943, so if H2S was allowed over enemy territory why not magnetron AI radar.
5. No, after BC got new navaids and developed pathfinder tactics which allowed greater accuracy, area bombing IMHO became immoral.
Juha
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