Recent content by HubertCumberdale

Harris did what he felt he needed to do and should be a hero. While I reject the 'monster' tag for Harris, I don't think he qualifies as a hero either. He quite deliberately transformed the doctrine of area bombing into dogma, largely, I think, to justify his own messianic boast that area...

Put far more resources into precise strikes at essential infrastructure using mosquitoes a al 2nd TAF. Electricity and fuel would be good places to hit. Once I have H2S/Oboe/Gee/Window etc. I'd equip every 4 engine heavy with it and use them to do them same. At night. Once I have Merlin...

boB wise, I would imagine a sensible use of them (Assuming here that most are 109's with some 190's, kind of like the Spit/Hurri ratio in the BoB) would have been to fly the 190s high above bomber formations and intercept the interceptors. Luckily Nazis are not overly sensible people so they...

Hi All, my first post here. I could add Bomber Command's failure to realise early enough that astral navigation was useless, and on the flip side, once they had excellent radar/radio navigation systems in place, to realise their potential for precision strikes at night. I could also add...