Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "Why didn't the Germans just send up all their interceptors to stop the thousand bomber raids?" video.

  1.  @TheImperatorKnight  I'm not surprised. It's a hell of a battle.
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  2. Area attacks were the best option available in 1942 when Bomber Command couldn't hit anything smaller than a large city. Arguably they should have been abandoned by 1943 as accuracy improved.
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  3. I think they found him useful as a source of information. See also, Xaver Dorsch who made himself useful to The Americans writing the history of The Todt Organisation, and so escaped prosecution
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  4.  @simplicius11  The Junkers 88 bomber was commissioned with an air attack against England in mind. It wasn't really adequate though because of its small bomb load.
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  5. Goering talked very foolishly.
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  6. Exactly. It was in The Spring of 1943 that Bomber Command really began to affect the German Economy.
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  7. That's a good question. I believe The Luftwaffe had some early success with intruder operations. It might be the oil shortage again.
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  8. Was it slow? I thought its problem was bad handling which made it liable to crash if the pilot pushed it hard?
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  9.  @leohard1814  The German production figures are lying propaganda.
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  10. It was a newspaper tag. The men of Bomber Command usually called him "Butch". It was not altogether a compliment.
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  11. It was his middle name.
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  12.  @johnweber6612  Yes. The jet fighters were a huge leap forward in aircraft design but came into service too late to affect operations. Rather like The British Centurion tank.
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  13.  @caryblack5985  Hitler nixed the foo fighters too (probably).
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  14. You're not altogether wrong there. There's a good collection of testimony though.
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  15.  @haroldgodwinson832  The US bombers were very heavily armed, and shot down many attacking fighters. But one Messerschmitt 109 for one much more expensive B 17 isn't a good exchange.
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  16.  @attila7092  I thought it was an interesting question. It was probably too inaccurate to be useful would be my guess at an answer.
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  17. Not so much will as speed tbh
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  18. Check out The BBC radio adaptation. It's absolutely great, an impressive tribute to Bomber Command.
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