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Airframes and fuel can come around one way or another, Nazi Germany managed this until very late in the war when even Me-262's rose to challenge American air power as late as April 1945; experienced pilots, however, are much harder to produce.
I don't know if was significative, but late in the war the American pilots were flying with anti-G suits and tail warning radar.
What they say in the video I posted was that fighters in the escort role used fuel twice as fast. They say that because this a thousand fighters might be needed to keep 40 to 100 in the escort all the time. Don't know if this is true, but there's also the advanced escort to be considerated...
IMHO the other part of the coin is that wheter those "225+ stalking 109s" were moving on one blob (I very much doubt that) or in piecemeal in Staffel etc. size when engaging and may have found themselves locally outnumbered by escorts.
"Fuel did come, but it's just question of you look how many training hours a LW pilot received and an American pilot received. Both sides suffered casualities, but the Americans could replace pilots adequately, the Germans not."...
My thoughts exactly.
When you no longer have command of the air even to a tactical level to properly train your green fighter pilots; you know you are in deep trouble.
Bf 109,official RLM designation. The RLM got so upset with Messerschmitt AG correspondence which referred to the Me 110 etc that it officially refused to acknowledge such correspondence
You might find some reference to Me when it should be Bf in some contemporary German documents but you won't find it in an RLM document. All handbooks etc refer to Bf or Me as someone (Grau Geist?) explained earlier. That means Bf 109,Bf 110,Me 210 and so on.
Allied sources almost invariably refer to all Messerschmitt aircraft as Me,but that doesn't make it right.
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Steve
Me however really has become a common thing though from everyone including Germans today. The Messerschmitt Stiftung in German even refers to their Bf 109G-2s as Bf's not Me's.
I think it IS a choice and either one is correct since even WWII Germans used the Me designation in official correspondence ...