Strategical bombing of UK...how to?

Assuming a different setup to ww2 where Germany focuses on strategic bombers and aircraft in general, instead of uboot production , what would the targets of a strategic bombing campaign over the UK be?
Anyone knows where the critical infrastructural points where? War material factories, rail nodes, electricity plants, airfields, shipyards and so on...
 
No, with strategic bombing, with having the means to do so - go for aircraft factories, aero-engine factories for starters.
 

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Assuming a different setup to ww2 where Germany focuses on strategic bombers and aircraft in general, instead of uboot production , what would the targets of a strategic bombing campaign over the UK be?
Anyone knows where the critical infrastructural points where? War material factories, rail nodes, electricity plants, airfields, shipyards and so on...
I believe they did bomb all of those things IOTL. Without uboats, the British will have no problems getting materials from America and the empire.
 
The UK's a right pain for anyone to hit - the valuable targets are highly dispersed and in the north of the country, which means you have to overfly the air defence system to get there. Essentially it's the same problem that the USAAC had in attacking places like Schweinfurt.
Actually, the US/UK air campaign against Germany is quite instructive - there really weren't any decisive targets, and the closest to a panacea there was (synthetic fuel) isn't a vulnerability that the UK suffers from. Maybe the best option is to look at what worked well against Japan - area fire raids against cities, on the railway network and heavy use of air-dropped sea mines. The UK had an extremely robust (because it was so distributed) rail network and the RN were vastly more capable than the IJN when it came to minesweeping and protecting merchant traffic, so even that will be tough.
 
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