re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

Japan sure was. If Germany had invaded Great Britain, we’d have had a hell of a time.

The Army Air Force was actually planning for two scenarios. The first was what played out, using relatively short-range medium and heavy bombers to carry out a continuous bombing campaign on mainland Europe. The second was in the event that bases in Britain or Europe were unavailable, in which case the USAAF would have pushed up production of the B-36, which (on paper at least) had the range necessary to carry a useful payload to the heart of Germany and back. It just would have meant waiting a few years while the bombers were built and crews trained.