A 'what if' question RE: LW vs 8th AF

[drgondog]

Originally Posted by mars

You also repeately and consistently miss the point that 1) If Luftwaffe tried to repeated small faroce low level 10pm to 3am attacks, most possibly they would fail to find the airbase


You KNOW this, How?

2) if Luftwaffe tried to enter the UK air space in higher altitude, and only dive to low lever AFTER THEY LOCATE USSAF AIR BASES,

You KNOW this, How?

then they would suffered very high losses to RAF night air defense system without achieve anything 3) you miss the point that Luftwaffe did try night ground attack in UK by fighter bomber, it FAILED MISERABLY.

When, where, and what were the tactics?

And I also notice that now you switch back to the ground attack, and give up mixing into USSAF heavy bombers stream when Americans were returning to their base

I never 'left' the night intrusion attacks at low level as a 'what if'. Your attention span may have been deficient. What I posed as a possibility that needed to be repeated was the night attacks to disrupt the USAAF policy of re-fueling aircraft and leaving them (vulnerable) on hardstands.

What I suggested was feasible for any experienced IFR pilot and the LW had a lot of such pilots in their bomber forces.

What I posed as a possible effect was high potential gain for minimal losses compared to a daylight attack in conventional approach - namely a potential series of 'Polatava' results on 8th and 9th AF in the most concentrated target rich environment during WWII.

What I posed, if successful, would have forced USAAF to change its SOP for preliminary mission preparations and forced later take offs, forcing later returns - forcing a significant percentage of mission returns into night landings. If successful, the accident attrition rate for night landings in bad weather would have altered many target selections. If successful, vulnerabilty for good weather night returns to returning (and outbound RAF bomber forces) to LW Night Fighter attcks could have been more successful, simply by virtue of stretching RAF and USAAF night fighter resources.

Its all speculation, just as your extreme overconfidence that a.) LW pilots were inferior incompetants, and b.) that RAF night defenses were invulnerable. Good day.