Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by HAHalliday

As of January 1944 the Luftwaffe had a substantial bomber force which, if maintained, might have ... inflicted considerable damage on ships in port a month before D Day.

Somethng they were actually trying to do in the last weeks of the "Little Blitz", a major raid on Portsmouth proving a complete failure for example (see Kampfflieger Vol. 4 in the Classic colours series) and other attacks on Torquay and Falmouth dong little damage.

The bomber force in Italy got very poor results as well in repeated raids (about 100 Ju 88s each time) on Naples from late 1943 to mid-1944. The Bari Harbour attack in December 1943 and the Corsican airfields one in May 1944 were their only major successes.