(WalterM140) wrote in message ...
??? What's the connection? The German defences against night bombers
were not the same as those used against day bombers.

Night fighters need fuel. Night fighter pilots need training. It was the USAAF
that largely deprived the GAF of fuel.


Well, the night-fighter force remained active to the end of the war so
they evidently weren't stopped. Fuel shortages didn't curtail
Luftwaffe defensive operations until late in the war, by which time
Bomber Command had been bombing Germany for four years or so, with
increasing accuracy and effectiveness. To say that they couldn't have
done so if it weren't for the daylight bombing is a gross
exaggeration.

Tony Williams
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