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Originally Posted by 6S.Manu
What? Are you serious?
The german pilot is over England since he is trying to GAIN air superiority (a thing that was irrealistic to attain since the low range of their main fighter machine) and one of these things happens to him:
- His plane is damaged by an english fighter -> he bails out (captured) or he ditches (probably dead/captured/safe)
- His plane is damaged by flak -> he bails out (captured) or he ditches (probably dead/captured/safe)
- His plane has a issue and he has to return home. -> he try to return home... probably he ditches again (probably dead/captured/safe)..
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True, I guess we should have at least given them a sporting chance, it really wasn't cricket we were playing.
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The British pilot is over England trying to AVOID german air superiority:
- His plane is by a German -> he bails out or he try an emergency landing (safe)
- His plane is damaged by flak -> no possible... there's no german flak over England
- His plane has a issue and he has to return home. -> He lands (safe)..
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around 1,500 British/allied aircrew killed and you failed to provide that option in your argument, do you think we were hiding behind a magic force fileld here? you think we cheated?
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Nobody is critizing UK for that advantage: it's been a german's mistake to start the battle without a good long range fighter (the 110 wasn't so good... above all then they used it as an escort fighter)
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it's not all about the 110
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Still the British HAD that advantage: you only need to recognize it as an advantage you gained because of Germany's fault. It's a Germany's mistake, not a UK's success. It was a score on their own goal... in extra time since Hitler ordered to bomb the cities.
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and the Germans had the advantage of :
years of massing a war machine they had been secretly developing, so nobody else was prepared because they had a more peacefull vision of the future, a numerical advantage is quite significant, the Germans found that out against the Russians, the channel did not cancel that advantage out.
Quite a bit of combat experience gained not only from the outbreak of war but also the combat experience gained by fighting for their fellow fashists in Spain, the sole purpouse of which was to gain an advantage in their sinister plans for war in europe.
a pretty well uninterrupted supply line over land.