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When the 8th Air Force shipped out to British airfields in 1944, Bomber Command already had several years of experience in conducting air raids over occupied Europe. After taking appalling casualties early in the war, they eventually settled on nighttime bombing and stuck with it.

However, when the Americans arrived, their strategic bombing doctrine had been unaltered since the pre-war days of Mitchell and Trenchard. Many senior personnel in Bomber Command warned the Americans against the dangers of daytime raids, but political pressure silenced those protests, and the 8th Air Force went ahead with their pre-war doctrine, taking heavy casualties but refusing to change their strategy.

What would happen if those in charge of the 8th Air Force conceded to Bomber Command's advice and conducted only nighttime raids?
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