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Der Grosse Schlag or the Great Blow was the Luftwaffe's final attempt to stop allied daylight bombing.

The Luftwaffe was reserving planes for this but on January 1, 1945, the Luftwaffe initiated Operation Bodenplatte, attempting to destroy Allied aircraft on the ground In Belgium and France through a series of coordinated air strikes. While more than 100 Allied planes were destroyed, the cost to the Luftwaffe was devastating.

Adolf Gallard, the Luftwaffe's greatest fighter ace and commander of Germany's fighter forces, opposed this operation, favoring instead a marshalling of the Luftwaffe's remaining strength (about 1,000 fighters and piliots) for a "Big Blow" against Allied bombers. Had he had his way, the resources committed to Bodenplatte would have been thrown against the waves of Allied bombers then pounding German cities.

But lets say the lethal R4M air to air missle had been available in sufficient numbers too. Not an impossible Pod since unlike most Nazi tech it was simple and practical (and also developed by a woman, I believe).

It's not going to change the outcome but what would be the consequences.

Would the USAAF maybe destroy more enemy fighters than usual thanks to poorly trained pilots.

Or would it be a devastating one off blow, whence the USAAF would inflict agressive destruction of German towns in retaliation?
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