[Little Ray]

I don’t think we could reach Soviet industry even from bases in Germany. Maybe B-29s could do it.

As for destroying Soviet logistics, it is important to remember that the enemy gets a vote. The Germans had been trying to this for the entire war and never succeeded.

[Ancesthntr]

“I don’t think we could reach Soviet industry even from bases in Germany. Maybe B-29s could do it.

As for destroying Soviet logistics, it is important to remember that the enemy gets a vote. The Germans had been trying to this for the entire war and never succeeded”

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Lots of Soviet war industry wasn’t moved to the Urals - much was in the Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad areas. So that part of their logistics could have been pretty thoroughly wrecked by the 8th Air Force. That force, alone, had a far superior reach and punch vs. the entire Luftwaffe at its peak.

WRT Soviet logistics, the very fact that much/most of their production was in the Urals was a weakness - it had to travel 2,000 miles to get to the front lines. Again, our larger and more effective air force would have put a serious crimp in their ability to reinforce the tip of their spear.

But, of course, the biggest weakness they had was petroleum. We knew exactly where their oil fields and production facilities were in the Caucasus, and planes based in either Italy or Egypt could have utterly destroyed them (especially if the strike was done as part of the initial surprise attack.