Comments by "Cary Black" (@caryblack5985) on "Why didn't the Germans just send up all their interceptors to stop the thousand bomber raids?" video.

  1. Millions were killed by mass shootings and starvation and worked to death.
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  2. They had peak production but also halted much of the spare parts to increase production. There fuel available for training pilots was minimal and also for sorties. They lost many experienced pilots and were not able to replace them so increased production did not help much. Also the combat effectiveness of the planes declined since they had to use slave labor not skilled workers.
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  3. There were not enough produced, fuel available and pilots to make a difference. Too little and too late.
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  4.  @azralandar  Here is what I found: In recent years other authors have offered more detail on the losses of each side. John Manrho and Ronald Pütz, published their findings in Bodenplatte: The Luftwaffe's Last Hope. According to their figures, taken from German and Allied sources, which include the remains of German airmen found up until 2003,[7] German casualties were 271 fighters destroyed, 65 single-engine fighters damaged and 9 twin-engine aircraft destroyed, and four damaged. Some 143 pilots were killed in action, 70 became prisoners of war and 21 were wounded in action.[8][9] The Allies lost 305 aircraft destroyed and 190 aircraft damaged.[10] A further 15 Allied aircraft were shot down and ten damaged. A further six were downed by other causes.[11] Manrho and Pütz have also deduced that only 17 German aircraft are certain to have been shot down by German Flak. Even if aircraft with unknown fates are added, it still gives a figure of only 30–35. They state that the notion that one-third of the German aircraft were shot down by friendly fire is "myth".[10]
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  5. Correct planes are more replaceable but having many planes and few or no pilots to fly them does nothing for your air force. Particularly when your experienced pilots are not rotated or sent to train others as the Germans did and many just flew till they were shot down and captured or killed.
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  6. Well you should not be watching youtube at all by your comment. Why bother to watch or comment?
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  7. Your ignorance shows immediately. Thomas Mann was born of Catholic and protestant parents. He was baptized a Lutheran.
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  8.  @THEBARTMANOPS  Why don't you read about it yourself. There are hundreds of books that go into great depth on the holocaust and they are in your library or can be borrowed from your library. You do not have to rely on websites. Also you can to go wikipedia or the US Holocaust Museum on line if you choose to go with online sources but reading will go into depth about the whole process.
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  9.  @THEBARTMANOPS  Ok
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  10.  @THEBARTMANOPS  I suggest going to wikipedia Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust Museum sites to learn more online if you can't find the time to read..
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  11.  @leohard1814  I think my comment made it clear that there were other effects besides production by the bombers. Also the loss of German pilots trying to shoot down the bombers led to sharp drop off of experienced German pilots when long range fighters accompanied the bombers. Those pilots were not available to attack the Normandy beaches.
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  12. Don't watch
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  13. Also the Allies were able to replace the planes very quickly and the Allies loss of pilots was low as many of the planes were on the ground. The Germans could not replace the experienced pilots.
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  14. My suggestion Don't Watch
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  15. The Germans launched the Ardennes offensive deliberately at a time when overcast preventing flying to negate the Allied advantage in the air. The Germans were already at a great disadvantage in pilots and fuel in 1944. Another Bodenplatte earlier would be a failure.
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  16.  @nottoday3817  Your points make sense however there was shortage of experienced pilots to fight and to train. Also shortage of fuel to fight and to train. The additional planes did not make up for these two vital problems. To focus only on the number of planes produced and not look at these problems give a distorted impression of what happened to the Luftwaffe. That why in 1944 very few Luftwaffe attacks at Normandy and by the middle of1944 the Luftwaffe could not put up an effective defense against the bombers since the number of long range fighters only increased and even the new pilots had much more airtime then German replacements. The Allies got stronger in the air and the Luftwaffe weaker.
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  17. Because they were not all available at any one time. The accuracy was very limited. They could attack a city as large as London well but not something as limited as the invasion beaches well.
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