Would it make a difference when:
The development troubles with the Heinkel He 117 were earlier adressed, in 1940, to Reichsmarschall
Hermann Goering, who angered at the apparent slowness with which the He 177 was having its powerplant problems :
''Why has this silly engine suddenly turned up, which is so idiotically welded together? They told me then, there would be two engines connected behind each other, and suddenly there appears this misbegotten monster of welded-together engines one cannot get at!''
''I had told Udet from the start that I wanted this beast with four engines. This crate must have had four engines at some time! Nobody had told me anything about this hocus-pocus with welded-together engines.''
Finally a real 4 engined bomber appeared, which did do his job were it was build and designed for, even it remained a difficult aeroplane.
By 1942 several Luftflotten were equiped with this bomber and used as thrue strategic bombers against strategic targets deep in the Sovjet Union.
Would this make a difference?
Would the result after several bombing campaigns have an affect on the front? Would a more or less positive result make long range bombers accepted within the Luftwaffe and open the way for other longrange heavy bombers, to get the ME 264 operational?
In OTL there were some 1137 He 177 build so resorces were available for large bombers.
