Air war question

[Steel God]

I have found, and I think it is basically true, that the more I read about the Strategic Bomber Offensive, it was simply a matter of the technology of the 1940s not being able to support the operational approach that the Allies wanted to follow. In short, even the USAAF's vaunted "precision daylight bombing" was wildly inaccurate. If you can't have a reasonable chance of hitting what you aim at, all of the plans about targetting this industry or that is merely a desire that can not be executed. Doesn't mean they didn't try, and for all the numbers reported about growth in production, just think how high they would have been otherwise. Also, so of that growth can be contributed to the fact that the Germany Economy didn't even go on a war footing until about 1941 anyway.

The main achievements of the bomber offensive were not intended (the diversion of what was ultimately almost the entire fighter element of the luftwaffe, giving the front line troops almost no cover); or not discussed by anyone other than Air Marshall Harris (the deliberate targetting of the civilians to break their morale).

Paul