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Originally Posted by PershingOfLSU I'm not quite sure how you expect more German ground forces in western Europe to prevent the 8th Air Force from reducing Germany's oil production capability to rubble. In the end the problem wasn't that Germany didn't have enough planes, it was that it didn't have enough fuel or pilots. |
I really think the key to this whole scenario lies in the hands of the Luftwaffes eastern front capabilities at the time of the Russian defeat.
If they had enough strength/quality left to gain air superiority between Russia, Romainia and eastern Germany then they "may" have been able to transfer troops and materials west in relative safety which would have given them a fighting chance of securing a level of air parity prior to D-Day.
I dont believe that the Luftwaffe could have hoped to regain total air superiority imediately as the numbers stacked up against them were just too high but given a a few months (6-12) I think they could have inflicted enough damage on the allied airforces to make Germany and its production more secure.
I do believe that given time a stalemate would have been more than possible but the Germans would have had to have prevented the allies getting ashore in France and probably thrown them out of Italy as I believe that as long as allied troops were on the ground in Europe they would have won eventually.