WalterM140 wrote in message ...

Night fighters need fuel. Night fighter pilots need training. It was the USAAF
that largely deprived the GAF of fuel.

I suggest people actually look up the Speer oil reports, they
show the credit for the reduction in avgas production was
much more evenly shared between RAF and USAAF raids
than Walter prefers.

Also any effects on pilot training happened in the third quarter
of 1944 and ignores the way pilot training took a year. The
lack of avgas did little to nightfighter pilot strength, in one of the
counter effects of the fuel reductions (and the jamming) meant
a bias towards sending up the better crews, an average increase
in quality.

Geoffrey Sinclair
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