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What if there were 600 more planes available for Barbarossa in 1941. We have many TLs on this forum where the Luftwaffe is better for one reason or another.

So the POD could be:
General Wever lives, JU88 production isn't messed up with dive bombing, the ME210 production mess up doesn't happen (German keep 110 production up), a better organized, more efficient Luftwaffe with more pilot training, better performance in the Battle of Britain, or Germany opts for a "Battle of Britan Lite" with less losses or any combination thereof.

600 extra planes doesn't seem to unreasonable, lets assume most of these are Ju88s and ME110s

What could the German accomplish in 1941 with the extra aircraft in the East?????

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Note: OTL the Germans were having trouble building enough airfields in the east by June 41 to base what they already had so the initial benefits might not be so great since these might have to be in reserve at first but would be useful to replace attrition.

Perhaps these extra aircraft might be useful in the Siege of Odessa, Crimean campaign, or in the Siege of Leningrad where the extra forward basing wouldn't be so tough, OTL the siege of Leningrad in 1941 was a pretty close run thing, 600 extra aircraft in September, October, November 41 would have probably allowed the Germans to close the ring tighter around the city allowing it to fall to a winter siege.
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