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i kinda of disagree. as patton wrote up, if i remember correctly he was all of the tanks taking the lead and have the Air Force bomb the crap behind the russian front line, something like, and i am guessing here, like 25 miles or so, esp in night time bombing. he thought the strength of the british and US bombers were unequal compared to no russian bombers.
The Russians had a staggering advantage in manpower and in tank numbers by 1945 beyond anything comprehensible, and the Soviet air force was humongous. American tank doctrine at the time was to overwhelm superior German tanks in shear numbers, but the Russians had both a numeric and technological advantage on that front. Even if you gave the edge to the Western allies in fighter superiority to give our bombers free reign, which was far from a certainty and actually probably would've been the opposite, that wouldn't have been able to make up the difference on the ground and the fact that the Soviet centers of production were well outside our striking distance. Even with the nuke advantage, we didn't have nearly enough to prosecute a winnable war.
Anglo-American planners that studied this potential conflict to a T essentially figured that any resultant war would likely result in the Americans and British being driven from the continent and all of Europe falling under the Soviet sphere of influence.