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There is no doubt that the soldiers and aviators on both sides were fighting for their lives. When the fight is to the death it is never a half hearted anything. Both sides were giving up their lives every day, and you can be assured there was no half hearted effort in the cockpits of either Germany or Britain.

Goering may have been a putz, but the Luftwaffe was not.

Sadly, the German and British soldiers died because they were just in the way. Seems like it, when you realize ole Hitler just changed the war front, and effectively wasted all those people and resources in the Battle of Britain.

Thousands of people died, military and civilian and the jerk just diverted to the other side of Europe. Taking Britain was just a half effort to Hitler, and if that jerk had to fight his way out of a paper sack (personally) he couldn't have done zip. THe little coward proved it up well when he committed suicide, rather than face any kind of punishment for his debauchery.

I say Britain was the winner, because all the power of Luftwaffe was directed towards Britain and the losses were greater militarily for Germany than Britain. The Germans were getting the snot kicked out of them on a daily basis, and it didn't seem to matter how many planes they had in the air they lost huge lots of them on every raid.

Hitler thought defeating Britain would be easy. Figuratively speaking, Hitler got his hand in the mouth of a bear.

History has it's facts and distortions, which is what future generations will share.

Another 15 years and there will probably not be a single survivor left alive on either side that fought in WW2 to corroborate anything.