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As I recall reading, had the ME262 been fielded in numbers as a fighter against USAAF daytime bombing raids, it may have forced the USAAF to suspend daytime bombing raids against Germany. This would have effected the strategic bombing plan which targeted supply and essential industries to the German war effort. This in turn would have resulted in the German war machine being more resistant to supply problems and allowed to to maintain offensive operations for a longer period. I doubt very much that it would have had an effect on maritime operations or whether or not D day would have occurred.
It should be noted however that the RAF would still have been able to conduct its night time bombing raids as the ME262 was no different to other fighters for night fighting, which was in its infancy and would have been relatively ineffective against the RAF night raids. It can be assumed that had the USAAF not devised a workaround to the 262 'problem' then they would have simply started training up to carry out night raids against Germany with the RAF. In which case, the vulnerability of the war supply industry and so forth would have still been acute. In hindsight, there is little that the USAAF could have done against the 262 apart from attacking the places it was made and its airbases. Which is what they did anyway. There is no one 'miracle' or wonder weapon which would have or could have turned the tide of the war (aside from nuclear weapons being fielded by the Germans) - such a war would have been dependent on a number of such wonder weapons and good strategic planning without interference by Mein Fuhrer.
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I think you give hitler less credit then he deserves
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The Americans took Dr Werner Von Braun and the other rocket scientists to America and as they say ,the rest is history.
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Saw it on foxtel the other night too, interesting show. A lot of those doco's are, the ancient mega building series has been too, like how they built the pyramid's, colluseum, macchu picchu etc.
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On the heavy water, as said before, it was used in Nuclear experiments by Hilter.
However, that NATGEO show was about a myth or legend that Hitler had mastered/perfected the use of Heavy Water. The yanks, knew he was in that side of things, but they didn't know how much. The episode pulled up a barrel from a sunken ship and had it tested. It showed that it was heavy water, but the concentration levels of what was said to be used, wasn't true. So they had the theory that he was well on the way, but still off by sometime off, till he had it perfected. Very interesting and an educational episode. Quote:
Hahaha I know a fella, who served with the Brits in WW2. He was a bomber pilot (lancasters and all). Flew many many missions, survived by the skin of his teeth. Had a few close calls, like all of his crew were dead, but him, managed to land back home, holes everywhere through the plane (on a wing and a prayer) Apparently there is a legend that I have heard of, that he was the pilot that dropped Douglas Badders legs to him, whilst in a concentration camp. |
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http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/pos...60-a-8348.html
Some of those German experimental planes were later built in South America. As many Germans settled there. |
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Mosquito's were an aweesome plane one of my all time favorites during WWII - must admit I was also a fan of the fw-190, Pathfinders were awesome they would drop flares to mark where the lancestors should drop their bombs - from memory they also did some daring highly accurate bombing runs to free prisoners from a German held area (blew the guards house up and basically the front door allowing prisoners to escape) - From memory anyway I studied this stuff when I was a teenager. From a car perspective although not entirely related search King Tiger, Jadgpanther and, and Jadgtiger - all forminable weapons that the Allies had no real answer for - apart from carpet bombing and let them run out of fuel and ammunition.
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