"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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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.


But as you say they had no pilots and precious little fuel. An earlier
German introduction of jet fighters would doubtless have resulted
in increased priority for the allied jet fighter production and
we'd have seen more Meteors, Vampires etc

Keith