"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Bill Phillips" wrote in message
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OK there is scope for dropping bombs on things that are neither
production
or oil.

However, STOPPED means that NO bombs were dropped on production
facilities,
which does not fit what I have heard.



In fact there was a switch of emphasis in strategic bombing
from industrial towns to oil targets in 1944. The first bomber command
raid was that on the synthetic-oil plant at Gelsenkirchen on the
night of June 12/13 1944.

Indeed the major raids from this point on were directed at
military targets (Kiel, Le Havre etc), communications targets,
V1/V2 sites and oil targets. It was only in October that raids
were once more made on general production targets when raids
were made on Dortmund and Duisburg.

The handful of high profile raids you mention is a small part of the total
picture, and even your list includes some bombing of war production targets,
i.e. it hadn't stopped.

More important you need to explain why war production went up. I have
already explained that my assessment is that the bombing angered the
population and caused them to give up their luxuries and free time and
worked hard to produce more weapons. In short production went up because of
the bombing.