Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

Graeme Wall <Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J. Lodder) wrote:

Graeme Wall <Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J. Lodder) wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

sigvaldi <sigvald@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. J. Lodder wrote:
[snip]

German planes near Iceland were very rare indeed.

German aircraft flew over Reykjavik and other places in the west
of Iceland on numerous occasions, often bombing and strafing,
German planes near the east of Iceland were almost a daily
occurrence.

(Wow! Almost a plane a day!)

Iceland does not have a large population - the entire country has a
population only marginally more than the London borough[1] I grew up
in (London's population dwarfs Iceland's), and I doubt it was much
different back in the WWII years. If that `almost one warplane a
day' is also `often bombing and strafing', it's a big deal to
Iceland.

How do you 'often bomb and strafe' with one plane?

Very easily if there is no air opposition.

After the first (few) runs you'll be out of ammo.

A bigger aircraft can carry a lot more ammo

The FW 200 had both range problems and structural problems
because the design couldn't cope with the bomb load.

Remember the Luftwaffe was set up as a tactical force to support the
army, after dropping the bomb load they would return and shoot up the
survivors.

That is standard tactics, for fighter-bombers.
However, the FW 200 can hardly be descibed as one.

You are ignoring the way the Luftwaffe was structured, it was always designed
as an army support arm rather than a strike force in its own right. The
FW200 was the only 4 engined aircraft in normal service that the Luftwaffe
had and they still tended to regard it as a larger Heinkel rather than a
strategic bomber on the lines of the Lancaster.

There was no army to support in the Atlantic.

[snip politics]

As I said elsewhere, after 1941 the Condor
was used for recon only to conserve numbers.

But not a situation that could be relied on by the Allies to continue.

The allies (staff, not aircrews or sailors in the convoys)
would have loved to see more fighting Condors around Iceland.
After all, this was a gross national product war.
Germany wasting resources on getting expensive
and hard to replace Condors shot down over the North Atlantic
would have eaten up industrial capacity better used for other things.

Too bad for your father, but if it meant getting a Condor shot down
for on average one cheaper allied plane lost
that would have suited them fine.


That's fantasy. Kondors were about the same cost as a Lancaster and no harder
to replace. You obviously no little about the wartime German economy. Where
the Germans were wasting money was on the V projects and the Holocaust. On a
purely economic basis the latter was a stupid waste of money and resources.

Given that less than 300 Kondors were built during the whole war
(against over 7000 Lancasters) I think you are mistaken in this,

Jan
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