Why the USAAF gave up on the A-36 in favour of the P-47.

[Juha]

Hello Tony
third time, if the top civil-military institution, Imperial Defence Committee or whatever, or top brass of RAF had decided, that attacks on electrical grid was the answer and ordered Harris to attack it, Harris would have had in the end only two options, obey or step aside. So what the Harris think or want didn’t matter in the end game, look Transport and Oil plans, what happened? Did the Harris’ opinion matter?

Did they build Mossie bombers or not?

You must accept that there were bosses above Harris, so in the end they decided what BC did, Harris had to operate inside boundaries given to him. Again, look what happened with Transport and Oil Plans, if you find out that Harris was compelled to bomb those “panacea” targets how he could have refused to bomb electicity grid targets if he had ordered to do that?

Juha