No, Me-262 alone would not have saved the Reich, I think, but trying to make it a bomber was one mistake in a series of flops.
Earlier production by 18 months would have changed the air-war in the west, and caused huge losses to the allied bomber armadas. " Give me 300 Me 262īs and Iīll drop 200 bombers anyday " said by Galland (?). That would have given the Allied some thinking to do.
As to the production losses Speer ( Yes, Andy, I do know you donīt trust him but I donīt have other numbers to use on this ) estimated that the bombings caused some 35% decrease to what might have been in 1944. So the end of bombings would have changed something. And these bombings did not just affect the production lines, but the morale of working people and time of working hours per day.
The Soviet army was a huge killing machine once it started rolling.I donīt think anyone here on this forum disagrees.
