RAF Bomber crews remembered. Better late than never.

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Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

Well said.

The flaw in Blackdog's theory is that it would take three Mossies and therefore three pilots to carry 12,000lb of Bombs to Germany, whereas one Lancaster only required one pilot.

With a limited number of pilots to go around, this would have meant a third of the tonnage of bombs would have been dropped. It's easy to say they could've been used in a more precise manner, but the low level pin-point Mossie squads were specialists with specialist training.
There wouldn't be either the time nor the resources to train every pilot in Bomber Command to this level of skill, or conversely, to produce three times the pilots.

Plus, the use of a heavy bomber force was a brand new weapon which no-one had experience of using, and therefore no-one had experience of its effectivity.
Again, it's easy to apply the wisdom of hindsight to the whole issue, but at the time no one knew what the effect would be.