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oh well, for sure the book is interesting... I am almost done with UK navy and RAF OOB...

 

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Originally posted by The Larch


Mmm, never heard of those german B-29s, but anyway, Hitler had a tad too many mad dreams .
Yup, bombing the Ural factories would be nice, but the russian evacuated factories were well behind the Urals, all over Siberia, so I don't know if that bomber would pay off.

Bye, The Larch.

The "Amerika-bomber" was no dream it was reality in 1945. This has been discussed here before.

 

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Originally posted by The Larch


Mmm, never heard of those german B-29s, but anyway, Hitler had a tad too many mad dreams .
Yup, bombing the Ural factories would be nice, but the russian evacuated factories were well behind the Urals, all over Siberia, so I don't know if that bomber would pay off.

Bye, The Larch.

From what I understand Russian industry was highly concentrated, they only needed 5 or 6 giant tank factories to produce tens of thousands of tanks per year. Germany had smaller factories spread out all over Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia so the damage done by bombing raids was minimal. If German bombers were capable of knocking out 3 of those factories or blowing up their power source(dams) they might be able to cut Soviet tank production in half. One of these factories was in Gorki(about 250 miles west of Moscow). Two others were located just behind the Urals (Sverdlovsk 900 miles from Stalingrad) & (Chelyabinsk"Tankograd" 860 miles from Stalingrad). They also had another in Omsk (1300 miles from Stalingrad). I don't know which of these cities would have been with in range of long range bombers.

I remember skim reading a page out of Albert Speers memoirs where he claimed a bombing campaign(with 4 engine bombers) against Soviet industry would have been highly effective. And he was a pessimist/realist when it came to Germanys chances of winning the war. For example he thought that Germany never had the potential to develop the A bomb since it would have required resources and funds that Germany did not have to spare.

 

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Originally posted by Grumpy_Badger


From what I understand Russian industry was highly concentrated, they only needed 5 or 6 giant tank factories to produce tens of thousands of tanks per year. Germany had smaller factories spread out all over Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia so the damage done by bombing raids was minimal. If German bombers were capable of knocking out 3 of those factories or blowing up their power source(dams) they might be able to cut Soviet tank production in half. One of these factories was in Gorki(about 250 miles west of Moscow). Two others were located just behind the Urals (Sverdlovsk 900 miles from Stalingrad) & (Chelyabinsk"Tankograd" 860 miles from Stalingrad). They also had another in Omsk (1300 miles from Stalingrad). I don't know which of these cities would have been with in range of long range bombers.

I remember skim reading a page out of Albert Speers memoirs where he claimed a bombing campaign(with 4 engine bombers) against Soviet industry would have been highly effective. And he was a pessimist/realist when it came to Germanys chances of winning the war. For example he thought that Germany never had the potential to develop the A bomb since it would have required resources and funds that Germany did not have to spare.

There was a plan for strategic bombardment of the USSR by the Luftwaffe. The only success attained was bombing American (!) bombers in Russia.
Read it on a Strategy and Tactics.

 

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Originally posted by Grumpy_Badger
I remember skim reading a page out of Albert Speers memoirs where he claimed a bombing campaign(with 4 engine bombers) against Soviet industry

that was wt the Mistel bomber was developed. highly unsyccsefful. but the DFS flying bombs could have become a 1970ish style tv guided bombs...

bye