Bomber Command failure at Urft Dam.

[Graham Boak]

My comment was restricted to your slur on Bomber Command for operating the best bombsight available at the time.

However, you have now added " by December 1944 there would have been time to set up Oboe cat and mouse sites in Holland and France to extend Oboe coverage well beyond Berlin at 20,000 ft."

Really? Perhaps they had, I don't know. But what were the requirements for setting up such stations? What were the needs/requirements for such stations, to be balanced against all the other priorities for getting military equipment into Western Europe in those few short - and event-filled - months? Was it quite the easy. open-and-shut case that you present?

I think you meant Belgium and France - we hadn't actually got very far into Holland, and the Germans were still blocking the direct supply routes.