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Comment by WalterBright

> And they knew that the single greatest weapon of the war, the atomic bomb excepted, was the German 88-mm flat-trajectory gun, which brought down thousands of bombers and tens of thousands of soldiers.

I beg to differ. It was radar-guided anti-aircraft guns, and proximity fuzes for artillery shells. This had the effect of doubling the firepower.

Another was high-octane gasoline, which enabled much more powerful aircraft engines.

The Axis did not have these technologies.

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