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Originally Posted by Jukka Juutinen
Perhaps the best indication of the effectiveness of air power would be the answer to question: what if all aircraft in the world stopped working on June 5, 1944 for the next 12 months?
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No aerial reconnaissance (the original reason why air forces were established) … which may have affected the outcome of a few land and naval battles.
No curtailment of German oil production until much later in the war … increasing the mobility of German land forces (and naval units perhaps)?
No wholesale dislocation of Germany's internal transportation system?
Hundreds of thousands of men and thousands of guns not needed in the Flak arm?
7th February 2007, 21:48
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