let's see I could go on for how long ?????

I'm doing research as one of my pet projects on the 4 March 1945 raid, Unternehmen Gisela and the two other raids after that over the UK homeland.

To be brief, only NJG 2 and especially the C-6 nf gruppe the I. flew the Fernenachtjagd missions over England and were quite successful at it too.

Der Führer had several notions in his puny skull and that was by early 1942 he was getting a little worried about allocation of fuels to this gruppe doing long range work and not coming back with reports of 40-50 kills per mission, and the fuels and arms needed to be regulated and given to Reich defending gruppen against persistant heavy RAF 4-engine bomber attacks over main industrial centers.
I./NJG 2 pilots and commanders did everything they could possible to try and continue operations but it was for not. The gruppe was soon sent to the mid-east regions of the Med to attack day and night flying twin engine RAF bombers.

Would it have been effective to continue, YES if the other NJG gruppen would have been equipped with long range Junkers and would have attacked en-masse. Would it have changed the way of RAF bomber command thinking towards pursuit of bombing the Reich ? No, but tactics sure would have changed and the advent of the Beufighter on all short range missions over the coast and into the Ruhr Gebeit. As the Mossie intruder/night fighter had really not been perfected in 1942 for local defence, the RAF bases would also have had to beef up their monitoring/radar systems and provided enough light AA to go around all the many airfields.

Although only RAF targets were attacked at night by NJG 2, if this would have clearly been examined as being successful then most probably all out day-light attacks would have been scheduled by the Luftwaffe high command, but that is another topic for discussion......

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