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Big Week 1944: The Secret Plan to Break the Luftwaffe—Not Factories, Pilots

In February 20–25, 1944, the Allies launched Big Week (Operation Argument)—a six-day air campaign that changed World War II. The public target was Germany’s aircraft factories, but the real goal was brutal and simple: bleed the Luftwaffe’s day-fighter force of its irreplaceable pilots. This cinematic podcast dives into the P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt, and P-38 Lightning escorts, the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator combat boxes, and the command shift under Jimmy Doolittle that turned escorts from babysitters into free-hunting interceptor killers. We follow the Eighth Air Force (England), the Fifteenth Air Force (Italy), and the RAF’s night pressure across Leipzig, Brunswick, Gotha, Oschersleben, Regensburg, Augsburg, and Stuttgart—and witness how factories could be dispersed, but veteran pilots could not be replaced. What you’ll feel: fear, resolve, risk, sacrifice—and the shocking arithmetic of air superiority before D-Day. Subscribe to What If Wars for more untold WWII stories that flip what we think we know. #BigWeek #OperationArgument #WW2 #WWII #AviationHistory #Luftwaffe #P51 #B17 #EighthAirForce #FifteenthAirForce #Doolittle #DDay #Mustang #Thunderbolt #Lightning #BomberStream #History #Documentary #WarHistory #MilitaryAviation