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Originally Posted by Webstral
There's no way around pilot quality. The Big Week was so hard on the Luftwaffe because they lost 400 pilots. The airframes could be replaced. Aircraft production increased virtually to the end of the war. Without fuel, though, the new pilots couldn't get into the air to learn their new profession. Hitting fuel production was a shrewd move on the part of the Allies. The Komet, with its unique fuel requirements and stupendous performance, might have accomplished something significant if they had overcome the hazards of using said fuel and had been able to get a significant number of them operational.
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True! The F2A Buffalo was roundly damned by the RAF, RAAF, Navy and Marine pilots as combat ineffective...yet the Finns loved the aircraft and actually had several aces who perferred to fly that aircraft.
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