Why was the Fokker D VII A Good Plane?

That the Germans are clearly on record that the USAAF hurt them far
worse than the RAF did.

Incorrect, Walter has a small selected set of quotes from some Germans
he tries to pretend mean all
Germans and that their quotes are supposed
to prove Walter's claims. For a start put Coastal Command's record into
the mix.

Coastal Command? Give me a break.

Let's get the full efffect though:

'The
British
inflicted grievous and bloody injuries upon us' said Milch after the
war, 'but
the Americans stabbed us to the heart.'

--"Bomber Command" p. 408 by Max Hastings

"In the course of the year 1943 the accent of the Reich defense
shifted more
and more toward action against daylight raiders. Even though
numerically the
British were still stronger than the Americans and were undoubtedly a
great
trial for for the civilian population, the American precision raids
were of
greater consequence to the war industry. They received priority
attention
over the British raids on our towns."

--"The First and the Last" p. 178, Adolf Galland

'The Americans' attacks,
which
followed a definite system of assault on industrial targets, were by
far the
most dangerous.

It was in fact these attacks which caused the
breakdown of the
German armaments industry. The attacks on the chemical industry would
have
sufficed, without the impact of purely military events to render
Germany
defenseless.--Albert Speer"

--"Luftwaffe War Diaries" p. 355 by Cajus Bekker.

" 'By the narrowest of margins, the strategic air offensive failed to
smash
Germany's economy by this one method of attack,' wrote the economist
Professor
Milward. 'The most successful operation of the entire Allied
strategic air
warfare was against Germany's fuel supply,' wrote Galland of the
Luiftwaffe.
'Looking back, it is difficult to understand why the Allies started
this
undertaking so late....' Thus the Allies threw away success when it
was
already in their hands,' wrote Speer, of the slackening of the oil
offensive as
far back as the summer of 1944. "Had they continued the attacks of
March and
April with the same energy, we would have quickly been at our last
gasp."

--"Bomber Command" p. 389 by Max Hastings.

'Despite all the terrible destruction of German cities, despite all
the
hardship and death it brought to the civilian population and
industrial
workers--whose ordeal was now often worse than the soldiers at the
front--it
was not,as we have seen, area bombing by night that struck the vital
blow at
German survival.
This mission was accomplished to a far greater extent by the
selective and
precision bombing of the American Eighth Air Force in daylight. By
careful
choice of target, this first blocked the bottle-necks of armaments
production,
and finally brought the whole German war machine to a standstill."

--Luftwaffe War Diaries, p.340 by Cajus Bekker


"After a survey of of Luftwaffe officers for "American Heritage", Carl
Sulzberger found agreement with one German flying officer that "There is no
doubt that the Americans harmed us most. The Russians were negligible as far
as the home front was concerned, and we could have stood the British attacks
on our cities. But the American devastation of our airfields, factories, and
oil depots made it impossible for us to keep going."

--"A Wing and a Prayer", p. 384 by Harry Crosby.


"The message was a statement from Hans Fay, a German test pilot who had landed
his twin-engine ME 262 jet at an American field. Fay was quoted as saying,
"The American Air Force has shortened the war by years as well as decided its
outcome...Only bomber attacks during daytime have crippled and destroyed our
industry....Bombing attacks on cities did not exert a profound influence on
German morale. This was true even on the devastating bomb carpets."

-- "Forged In Fire" p. 480 by De Witt S. Copp

"Over Kiel we run into heavy flak from our own guns. The shooting by the Navy
is unfortunately so good that we are considerably disorganized. I observe the
Yank bombing. They dump their load right on the German shipyards. I am
impressed by the precision with which those *******s bomb: it is fantastic."

--"I Flew for the Fuhrer" by Heinz Knoke

Now you quote some Germans to a different effect.

You've seen some of these quotes for 4 years, and now you say we should
consider the work of --Coastal Command--?



Walt