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I am not so sure Hitler was wrong! The V1 could probably have come on-
line in 1943 only at a terrific price and a very limited target -
Britain. At that time Britain was a minor part of the war. The major war
was in the East and he needed resources against Russia. Before 1943,
when it looked like Hitler could win the war those resources required
could be far better spent on things that mattered like tanks and planes.

The flying bomb offensive, from 12th June 1944 to 1st September 1944
cost Britain almost 48 million pounds in lost production alone. In a
report by the Air Ministry dated 4th November 1944 it is stated: "The
main conclusion is that the results of the campaign were greatly in
the enemy's favour, the estimated ratio of our costs to his being
nearly four to one." Move this back 18 months when the Allies had no
fighters fast enough to shoot down these weapons and no effective
low-level AAA and a grim picture begins to emerge. I'm not saying
that the campaign would have brought the allies to their knees but
speculation is that D-Day would have been postponed for at least a
year and costs and casualties would have been high. If the A4 project
had been abandoned and the flying bomb project given top priority it
would have meant more than 30000 of these beasts arriving over Britain
a month - with Britain largely impotent to stop them. A fearful
thought.



This is very similar to a fictional work that I am in process of
writing.

Draft version 1 is available at

www.BERNARDZ.20m.com

Note there are quite a few mistakes that I am currently fixing in
version 2.


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A terrorist kills for publicity.

24th saying of Bernard