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Thread starter Onkel Willie Start date Dec 19, Tags baku case blue caucasus eastern front stalingrad world war 2. Go to page. First Prev 5 of 11 Go to page. Reader mode. The Bs and 24s would quickly be pulled from the daylight bombing effort and switched to other theatres. I can see the B getting priority to Europe along with the B The Germans can't be strong everywhere and by basing bombers all around Europe they Allies will grind down the Luftwaffe by sheer weight of numbers.
There'd being a bombing campaign against Baku as well, I doubt much oil will make it back to the Reich. And as for the Third Reich lasting to the s, you'd better have a good reason for Atomic weapons not being used against the Nazis as soon as they're ready, The Allies weren't scared to kill tens of thousands of Germans with conventional bombing so using nukes would be no big thing. Click to expand At the conference that Secretary Stimson and myself had with President Roosevelt shortly before his departure, I believe it was December 30th or 31st of , President Roosevelt was quite disturbed over the Battle of the Bulge and he asked me at that time whether I could bomb Germany as well as Japan.
The plan had always been to bomb Japan because we thought the war in Germany was pretty apt to be over in the first place and in the second place the Japanese building construction was much more easily damaged by a bomb of this character than that in Germany. I urged President Roosevelt that it would be very difficult for various reasons. The main one was that the Germans had quite strong aerial defense. They made a practice, as every nation does, that when a new plane came into the combat area, that they would run any risk that they could to bring such a plane down so that they could examine it and see what new ideas had come in so that they could make improvements and also would know the characteristics of the plane so that they could prepare a better defense against it.
