Good thought, Crazy, but I'm not so sure...

Virtually all Bomber Crew in the RAF were 'washed-out' fighter pilots. No offence ! I mean, if you read memoirs, etc everyone wanted to be a 'brylcreem boy' but the attributes and mentality of fighter and bomber crew were very different. So I guess we'd have had loads of not very effective fighter pilots.

True, aircraft production would have been switched to fighters but would that have been much use....? After all, 'sweeps' over occupied France were a waste of effort and manpower as it was. I suppose groundcrew would have gone into the army but that wouldn't have made that much difference to offensive capability.

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