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Old January 12th 04, 06:54 AM
Chad Irby
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In article efqMb.67031$JQ1.43117@pd7tw1no,
"tim gueguen" wrote:

"Denyav" wrote in message
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It would not change anything,actually Germans did many things right
but late,if they had more time, a couple months only,the outcome of
WWII might be very different.


On what basis do you make this claim? I can think of nothing the Germans
could have gotten their hands on with just a couple more months of WW2 that
would have made any sort of difference.


Well, they *were* starting to ramp up production on the He-162, and a
couple of months would have given them a thousand or so more fighters
(really - the things were pretty darned cheap and easy to make) with a
hundred MPH speed advantage. Not good for Allied bombers. Admittedly,
they would have lost a *lot* of them due to pilot inexperience (the
Germans were deeply short on experienced pilots by that stage of the
war, and the He-162 wasn't exactly a cinch to fly well), and a lot more
due to materials problems (they never did quite get the hang of good
wood glue for their planes), but it would have been a real issue in
getting the war over by the end of 1945.

If the European war lasts only a
month past mid July 1945 Berlin is nuked sometime in early August.


The big tipping point for German fighters was years earlier, when the
high command decided to build a lot more prop fighters to fight on the
Eastern Front, and put off jets for a while. If they'd waited a year or
so, consolidated, and moved in with better equipment and more
consolidation, the Russian campaigns would have been much different.

This would also have made some big differences in Japan, as well, since
the Japanese would have had working jets a year or more faster (from the
plans they got from the Germans), which would have given them some
serious bomber defenses over the home islands. They were only a couple
of months away from ramping up production of their own version of the
Me-262.

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