ORIGINAL: Evil_Merlin
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Late war German warbirds were on par, or a wee bit better than late war Allied warbirds. It wasn't poor aircraft that killed the German airwar, it was poor planning and management from the upper command structure.
As was said, imagine if Galland, Rall, Hartman, Romell or any of the true warriors that Germany had ran the war.
Yea, the German war machine is a pure case study of how not to run a war. Romell was at his home but he could have come bask quickly and just wreaked havok all over the Normandy coast. They had all of the out of this world technology but complete lunitic running the show. They had great tactics, but when the situation excalated they were trained to use the chain of command for futher orders. Sometimes that chain went all the way to the top.
American commanders and on down to non-coms, were taught to improvise, adapt, and overcome. They didn't have to ask the CP if it was ok to engage.
I did know till the other day that Germany had actually made 1200 ME-262's.