Holocaust- Bomb The Tracks?

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(10-10-2019, 03:18 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Brad for 1. to be of any real consequence they'd have to bomb fairly close to the camps, if they bomb 100, 200 miles away they'd just take alternate tracks and go around the bombed out section, so. 

2. To have any real impact they'd have to use up considerable tactical or a good bit of strategic bombing on a fairly regular basis. You can't just bomb it once and it's done for months. 

3. They'd have to detour fighters to cover said bombing pulling them off other missions. You think the Germans would just let bombers fly around with impunity ?

All this would pull considerable air power away from German tank and plane factory bombing.  It would pull fighter cover away from that and/or air cover for our troops.

It sounds good in theory but when put into practice in anything but a fairly full scale long term operation the results would be very limited. And the resources spent could save a lot more people, faster,  by focusing on ending the war as quick as possible through dropping the bombs where it hurts most.

1  How do you know how connected all of the tracks were back then?  How many alternate routes could just go around a bombed section?

2  Like I said, it would cause big craters in the ground, which wouldn't make it an easy repair.  It would also keep the Germans occupied with men and supplies.  

3  German planes can't cover everywhere.  

It's not like it would require that many planes or bombs.

How many millions of lives could have been saved?