D-Day Question

And what would the Allied airforce be doing?

 

well the long-range bombers were probably all deployed on the Eastern front anyways.

 

Huh?

 

I'm sorry can you not read English?
Gut die weittragenden bomber wahrscheinlich wurden alle auf der Östlichen Front sowieso eingesetzt.

 

The reason I said "huh" was because I wasnt sure which Long Range Bombers you were referring to.

From my knowledge, no Allied bombers were ever deployed in the east.

And the Germans simply never had any of such calibre at least.

So once again I say............. huh?

P.S.

No German here mate only Russian

 

The only Luftwaffe "long range" bomber unit in the East was KG 1 equipped with He 177A bombers. It reequipped with this aircraft starting in December 1943 and was redeployed to the East in June 1944. However, between the notorious unreliability of the Heinkel and the fact that it took about 8 metric tons of fuel per plane to fly one mission at a time when there was about 1000 metric tons of avaition fuel available for the entire Eastern Front the unit never flew a mission with this aircraft. By the end of the year it had been disbanded.

In the West KG 100 with He 177 undertook a number of missions including the "mini-blitz" on England in late 1943 early 44, antishipping strikes in the Bay of Biscay and Mediterrainian and a number of other bombing missions. The other unit was FleigerfuhrerAtlantik flying a combination of Fw200, Ju 88H, Ju 290, and He 177 aircraft on maritime patrol and strike missions into the Atlantic.
So, effectively, the Luftwaffe didn't have any "long-range" bombers in the East whatsoever.

And, as far as the invasion in Normandy went, the Luftwaffe had a minimal presence in France during and after that invasion. If anything, most ground attack missions were flown at night by single aircraft or small groups bombing almost at random as the Germans lacked any effective means of nighttime precision navigation and bombing. At best, these might be described as nusiance raids with very heavy losses to Allied antiaircraft guns and nightfighters.

As far as the Luftwaffe conducting "carpet bombing," that idea is ludicrious. At its height the Luftwaffe was incapable of conducting such a mission. It simply lacked the number and type of aircraft necessary to carry out such a raid.

 

It is difficult to be patronising after suggesting the Luftwaffe use non existant long range bombers (though why they would need to be long range anyway is lost on me, heavy bombers would suffice) to carpet bomb (something they couldn't do anyway) the invasion beaches (over which the allies had complete air superiority).

So I guess the answer to your question is 'if the Germans bombed the invasion beaches they would have been blown from the skies.