"WalterM140" wrote in message
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I suggest that the people check what the leader of the RAF said:

"But for the favorable air situation created by the Americans, said
Portal, "it
is possible that the night blitzing of cities, would have by now have
been too
costly to sustain upon a heavy scale.' Here was a remarkable
admission from
the British Air Chief of Staff--that it was only the success of
American air
policy which had spared Britain from visible and humiliating defeat.

Of course at no point did he say anything of the sort.

He never used the word defeat and was careful to refer
to possibilities.

Not
surprisingly, Harris totally rejected Portal's criticism of the area
campaign.
He now asserted flatly that he had no faith in selective bombing, 'and
none
whatever in the this present oil policy'.

--"Bomber Command" P. 380-384 by Max Hastings

Bomber Command was defeated over Germany in the spring of 1944. It was
the
Oil Campaign, largely pursued by the Americans that deprived the GAF of
fuel
and that allowed the RAF back over Germay with any chance of not being
shot to
pieces.


Given that the oil campaign didnt happen until late summer 1944 that's a
remarkable claim.

Bomber Command's Harris had to be ordered to bomb oil targets and sloughed
that
off whenever he could.


Indeed but he did so when ordered and the RAF played a major part
in the oil campaign.

Keith