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What if an alternative to area bombing was chosen? Let's say that that Harris suffers a heart attack in 1942 so whomever his replacement is opts to go for a more accurate bombing campaign against specific industrial targets thanks to increased nigh accuracy afforded by the OBOE and H2S guidance systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboe_(navigation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2S_(radar)

So what if instead of the Battle of the Ruhr as we know it they opted to go after the oil industry with the Light Night Strike Force and the heavies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_(RAF)#Light_Night_Striking_Force

Richard Overy mentioned this as an alternative option to the area bombing campaign and claimed it could have crippled the Luftwaffe a year early and probably brought the war to an early end, while stating that the Area Bombing might have dragged out the war and created unnecessary problems at the end of it.

What effect would it have had on the war to have the RAF start targeting specific and critical targets like that from Spring 1943 on? The technology used in mid-1944 to hit those targets was there in Spring 1943:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Campaign_of_World_War_II#Opinions_on_outcome
The RAF averaged 16% inside the factory. Bomber Command's efforts against oil were more efficient in some regards - although delivering a smaller total tonnage it did so from 2/3 base area. The USSBS believed that Bomber Command's heavy bombs - 4,000 lb "cookies" - were more effective than an equivalent weight of smaller bombs.
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