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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
Never said going after oil would not be easy...but going after the refineries, the storage depots and yes even the trains and barges hauling the stuff (not to mention the coal) had a dramatic effect on the Nazi war machine.
The failure of the Allied bombing campaign lay in the stuipid, silly and out right lunatic pre-war ideas on the conduct of strategic bombing. "The bombers will always get through", "speed is safety", "no fighter can stop a well armed heavy bomber", "bombing the cities will end the war"....
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Yeah bombing populations centers was a silly idea, all it did was pissed enough people to keep the war going. Granted much like to day civilian population is still mixed in close enough the industrial centers of the said cities that making accurate bombing back then impossible. No that is lot of the problem, we bomb factories and they moved them underground. We bomb railways and they would be replace. Take out bridges and they would be rebuilt in good speed. Attack their airfields and their air force fighters were still flying...