Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "“Germany Had No Interest in Heavy Bombers” – The Junkers Ju 89" video.

  1. Some must have realised what a missed opportunity the Junkers Ju 89 was when they were having to build the Mistel to do the job which the Ju 89 could have done. Some 250 Mistels were built with limited success. Operation Iron Hammer was to knock out Soviet power stations around Moscow and Gorky. But these were never attacked because the Red Army had entered German and the Mistels no longer had the range. The Ju 89 could have carried out these raids. When looking at the Allied bomber raids one thing which is often overlooked is that they tried up some 5,000 aircraft, about the same number of AAA guns and one million men. Stalin may have dismissed the idea that this was the second front but just imagine have having all of that to send to the east.
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