History has kind of taught us the hard way that state of the art V-1s and V-2s are nothing compared to a reliable fleet of pre-war-design four-engine bombers such as B-17, Short Sterling, Avro Lancaster, Liberator and all the other Allied goodies that reigned our skies from 1942-45! The money and resources that were devoured by the
Vergeltungswaffen program were mainly good for two things in hindsight:
- they helped curtail the war which would have only lasted longer and been even bloodier had fighters, U-Boats and tanks been produced, i.e. weapons that made military sense,
- they helped the US get to the moon (if they ever did that is ...
) a few years earlier.
All this
Wunderwaffen crap doesn't impress me nearly as much as the masterful logistic feat that stood behind D-Day (or the "Island Hopping" in the Pacific Theatre) or the sheer doggedness of the Red Army in driving the German invaders out of their country from 1941-45.
No Bassist copy yet!!!
Uwe