[Aircrafty]

bsmith, I feel there are a few facts that have been omitted from your post. The Germans were not overly impressed with the accuracy of strategic style bombing via vertical delivery and this was proved correct by the poor accuracy of both the RAF and USAF strategic methods. The accuracy of the USAF in daylight being not much better than the RAF/RAAF/RCAF at night. Saturation with large numbers of bombs being their only answer to this inaccuracy.

It was also proved that smaller twin engined aircraft as championed by the Germans were not as accurate as dive bombers but more accurate than larger four engined bombers. For example the Mosquito proved to be very accurate in bomb delivery compared to RAF and USAF heavies. And although it could not carry as much as the heavies it proved to be more effective and less vulnerable. In fact there is much to support the view that a switch to mainly Mosquito based bomb delivery would have been a better solution.

Have any of your educators mentioned the significant role the Russian Airforce and Army played in the defeat of Germany? Most German servicemen were used against the Russians, not the USAF or RAF etc.