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Originally posted by Estragon
Also, it must be remembered that heavy saturation bombing was very much a British -Bomber Harris's - invention: blitzkrieg essentially called only for air support and German thinking was always allied to large mobile land armies, never to strategic warfare at a distance. I guess that's why they never really bothered with a navy or with completing the one aircraft carrier Hitler ordered.
Originally posted by mad scientist
The Soviets were only able to hold on due to massive aid from the US ( the Studebaker made the Soviet Army mobile )and their ability to move their industrial base east of the Urals. Without these 2 factors they would have only been able to sustain lightly armed forces, no match for the Wehrmacht
Originally posted by Estragon
Also, it must be remembered that heavy saturation bombing was very much a British -Bomber Harris's - invention: blitzkrieg essentially called only for air support and German thinking was always allied to large mobile land armies, never to strategic warfare at a distance. I guess that's why they never really bothered with a navy or with completing the one aircraft carrier Hitler ordered.
Originally posted by jagdflieger
German thinking was a lot along the current thinking of the US Air Force (use of precision weapons to get maximum effect on important targets).
Originally posted by waynos
In reply to that point I would mention that a company specialising in producing medium and large flying boats, and whose very name means 'over the sea' created its first ever production fighter and called it the Spitfire