You wonder what those German sailors felt watching that; must have been the worst feeling knowing it was over. Their pilots must have felt the same way the first time they watched escort fighters drop their wing tanks and engage German fighter planes rather than turn around because they couldn’t carry enough fuel to get Allied bombers to the targets and back...
“”Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe during the war, was quoted as saying, “When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.””
From wiki on the P-51.