[ealgeone]

That’s not historically accurate. Intentional mass murder like dresden increased German resolve. The correct strategic use of heavy bombers didn’t occurre until 1945 with mass attacks on the transportation networks which resulted in the total shutdown of the German indrustal machine withing 3 months of the start of the campaign.

I thought the Transportation Plan began in 1944 before the invasion of Normandy.

Of equal, if not greater importance, were the attacks on Germany's oil capacity. This really limited Germany's ability to continue the war.

[RedWulf]

>I thought the Transportation Plan began in 1944 before the invasion of Normandy.

It did, but it was running full force till 1945 due to terror bombing.

>Of equal, if not greater importance, were the attacks on Germany’s oil capacity. This really limited Germany’s ability to continue the war.

The loss of Romania was a much bigger loss than the Synthetic Oil plants. German Military and indrusty was dependent on rapidit transport and once the the stored materials ran out the war machine collapsed. Most of the German military used horses and trains for transport so low gas supplies wasn’t nearly as crippling as the endless bombing of the transportation networks. Allied estimates on the effectiveness of our bombing oil plants came from our own massive use of gas powered vehicles.