Battle of Germany= Could LW have done better?

[Glider]

Obviously it would depend on when the Germans tried to take the battle to Britain but the British defences shouldn't be underestimated. The flak guns alone had a good success rate against V1's with radar direction and proximity fuses. Whilst the nightfighters were very strong.

 

[drgondog]

geezo well once I get those copies I'll be burdened underground for 3 months...........thanks in advance.

yes the rockets of all sizes would be sent up as forward Flak taking out the initial B-17/B-24 boxes, literally a full scale barrage.

As to the Fernenachtjagd yes I have some other earlier info that will be in our book that I cannot share right now, but the airfields were quite well known but only NJG 2 with a meager alotment of Ju 88's were fulfilling the requirements but they of course were not desired, should of come in low over the ocean and right on top of land which they did when the March 45 raids became effective for Op Gisela and 2-3 others of too small a size but the Austrian had his fat ugly nose in everything and warped out eh LW Nachtjagd, Fatty was inept as he knew nothing of how to defend the Reich at night let alone take an offense to the British

though there is no doubt in my mind that British would of made it top priority to increase their own AA defenses by 50 %

Erich - the reason for me sending you a lot of the ones that Mike doesn't have is to help you (and me) get a sense on the times and locations for each of the squadron's engagements - both for July 7 and Nov 26.

I finally figured out the July 7 massacre at Bernburg. The 8th 'forked out' too many separate attacks that day for the Long Range escorts to adequately cover.. The Leipzig Task Force from 2AD was covered by 355th and the Bernburg by the 4th - but the 4th was positioned to the center and rear and the entire focus it seems was the LW controllers laid a two pronged attack of me 410s on the Bernburg effort. The 4th was able to turn back beat off the attack on the rear but the lead CW's got hammered by the second force.

I asked Dr. Muller at Maxwell to help me find the 7 July and 26 November Mission Summaries for 8th - the same that we had for 24 April.

 

[Freebird]

All it took was the LW deploying the Me-262 in full scale in 1943 and the Allies would've been repulsed completely. Hitler made sure that didn't happen.

But still, this wouldn't ensure any victory, it would seriously prolong the war though.

PS: I agree completely with Erich, Les Bill on most points - good posts guys!

Presumably they could have had the 262 operational in the fall of '43, what was the production capacity then? How much longer would it take to train LW pilots on the jet?

 

[Njaco]

Any thoughts on the V-1 or V-2 or were they too late for this scenario?

Stopping production and developement on inferior or outlandish designs I think would help immensly, as you say drgn.