The RAF dropped, I forget exactly, maybe 3 times the tonnage of bombs in the
European theatre compared to the USAAF. Not least because the British Lancaster
bomber had massively more bomb carrying capacity ( 10 tons by the end of the war
) than US B-17s.
The RAF and British scientists also developed all the high accuracy radio /
radar aids required for precision bombing. See Oboe, GEE, H2S and the
'Pathfinders'.
We Brits also developed the first 'bunker-buster' bombs too. Like Tallboy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallboy_bomb
Thank you Barnes Wallis. He designed those Dambuster bombs too btw. And the ones
that were used on the Tirpitz.
Not to mention IFF too. And the escort fighters ( the Mustang / P51 was a design
for the British Air Ministry ) with their high performance and long range -
Rolls-Royce Merlin engines in place of the American Allisons and the drop tanks
were both RAF initiatives.
