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Originally Posted by tabs
Fuel was the major problem for the Luftwaffe..in the end they didn't have enough fuel to even train their pilots adequately.
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They didn't have enough pilots either. Their training program proved to be wholly inadequate. The Me-262 would not have changed that.
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If the Lutwaffe was able to introduce the ME 262 at the end of 1943 instead of the fall of 1944 the airwar over Germany would have been quiet different. The ME262 while it had teething problems was apx 100 miles faster then the best the Allies could put up...the P-51...Not only was it quicker but it was heavily armed..
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The Me262 fighter factory got bombed to oblivion by the 8th AF, that would probably have made it impossible to field them in any real numbers in 1943 in any case.
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Given the better supply situation and still having air superiority over Germany in early 1944 the Germans would have been able to halt the Allied daylight bombing campaign....
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The Germans never managed to cause unsustainable loss rates among US bombers from the very first day they were deep escorted by P-38s all the way to thier targets, and by 1944 the US had so many fighters running "Ramrod" fighter sweeps that i just don't think the Me262 would have made any real difference. What's more, the US escort fighters did as much real damage to the German war machine(particularly the LOCs- rail engines and trucks) when released for strafing runs on their return leg as the heavies did themselves.
By D-day the Luftwaffe had for all practical purposes been completely destroyed as an effective fighting force. When the Allies made their landings on 6 June 1944 they were opposed by exactly
2 German fighters.
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Read The First and Last by Galland and The Luftwaffe War Diaries by Cajus Becker...
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I will put them on my list.
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Originally Posted by tabs
So what is your point about the T-34 the USSR lost 1M men during the Barttle of Berlin in 1945, which was more than the US did in the Pacific and ETO during the war...the USSR lost 20,000,000 people...
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My point is that by the end of WWII the T-34 was largely outmoded.
In 1941-42 they were beasts though.