Airacobras in Tunisia

[JoeB]

Originally Posted by Christer Bergström

With all respect, Joe, but that is another topic. If you want to start a thread on that topic, please do so, and I will provide you with an answer which will explain what you now obviously regard as a contradiction. However, I have examined the reasons to this well-known fact quite recently on this board. In order to avoid straying from the topic (Airacobras in Tunisia), I will confine myself to giving you a hint by referring to my article on the effect of numerical superiority in the air over Normandy in 1944...

I guess that's part of the fun, we can always find an offsetting reason, numbers in Normandy (but also over the heart of Germany in any individual given encounter?, I don't think so, that requires a lot of revision, overall OOB numbers are not the major determinant of exchange ratio's anyway), something special about "defending the motherland" in 1941-45 that somehow didn't apply in 1950, etc. to counter the seemingly relatively clear basic fact: once the USAAF fighter force had gained significant combat experience, it seemed to be more effective than the VVS against the LW in WWII. And then this was further clarified when the two met head to head in Korea.

Joe