"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: Area bombing is not a dirty word.
From: Charles Gray


One thing that is often levied agaionst the bombing campaigns is the
fact that German production increased as the war came to an end (at
least until the last few days when industry was being overrun).

The reason German production increased is because we stopped bombing
production
facilites and switched to oil knowing that they could make all they
wanted
to,but without oil could never use any of it. So let them waste their
labor and
facilites on turning out equipment that could never be used.

So you are saying that ALL the bombs dropped during that period were dropped
on oil targets! I would love to here your source for that.

Granted the Germans were short of POL at the end, however, they were short
of everything else as well. I can find few instances of missions being
cancelled solely due to lack of POL, and the few examples that do exist seem
to be local problems getting the fuel to the correct place rather than
because the fuel did not exist.