[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Sorry but that is not what constitutes uneccessary, you see here again you are just downplaying the significance by using the German perspective here, clear example of your bias here, you are obviously enamoured with a strange romanticism about the Germans, facct is they 'did' come to fight and the British found it necessary to stop them, that has nothing to do with British nationalistic views.

I dunno how to explain this point anymore

Semantics again, an attempt at downplaying the significance through some 'dictionary' deffinition, the US won their war of independence(with help from the French)....were the British anhilated?

the British dominion over the US mainland was annihilated, the US started a new independent reality, that sounds like a win to me. At the blurry end of the Battle of Britain, apart for reputations and morale, nothing else changed.

Oh but it does, it's a personal event for both parties, the defender won his objective (survival and escape) the attacker lost his objective (killing the victim) the battle ends there, the war between these two hasn't, you are just not making sense here mate.

you (badly) repelled a bombing attack that was carried on for several months, their command was tired to wait any longer on Goering's fail, they moved onto something else, end of story.

You gained some heroes to celebrate, both countries learned LOADS in terms of experience, soon the Germans forgot about it thanks to the early successes of Barbarossa. It was just a phase of a more complicated war, not a battle per se.

Ther you go with that anhillation stuff again.....why?

because in a total war the success is obtained only by complete annihilation of the adversary's offensive potential, subduing it to an unconditioned surrender.

this topic started on the subject of the BOB, I thought it was etiquette to keep threads 'on topic' so the wider picture of the war has no relevance in this thread, that is not a denial of it's significance....just forum etiquette.

Conflict..battle...skirmish....WTF? give it whatever label you want, it happened, it was a fight, we won our objective....that is plain fact, that is all we celebrate about it, nobody suggests it was a total defeat of the wider German military...it was simply a fight the British won and it's wider significance became apparent later....yay lucky for us.....we survived that one and it all turned out pretty f***ing good in the end....lets celebrate it for it contribution for a better world wiithout the Nazis.......is that such a big deal?

I tried to, and it was my original point, but then all kind of $hit started flying in every direction..
Uh and let's not forget this: the western civilised world is grateful to the Allies for the efforts they made to liberate us from the Nazi scum.