... , three times the rate that was acceptable for a single mission. Germany had alternative sources of ball bearings from another plant at Regensburg and from neutral Sweden, which lay outside the Allied targeting area. As shown in this example, the bombing of the ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt had little effect on the production of ball bearing since there were two other factories ... making them. Second, more bombers were killed than civilians were on the bombing raids. The exchange ratio in 1941 between British bombers and German civilians were more bombers were dying than civilians ....

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