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I've done some reading of the V1 and V2 rocket programs which were strategically just one big dead end for the Germans (sans a nuclear payload at any rate).

I've read that some of the German scientists wanted to turn the rocket program away from offensive weapons and more toward surface to air missiles.
Albert Speer apparently believed that the massive air bombing disruptions caused to the German war economy could have been stopped if the research effort had been focused on SAMs.

How realistic is this and what implications does it have for D-Day?
Aside from far greater productive capacity for their economy, what if hundreds of SAMs had been deployed throughout Normandy and Pas-de-Calais?
It would have made Allied operations tricky.
Certainly you wouldn't want to be in the 101st Airborne with the defenders below packing that kind of heat against slow moving transports.
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