luthier, the historical performance btw 109/spitfire/huricane is NOT simulated in CoD

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by Robo.

I meant it rather as a joke. But you got to get the British credit for their stoic determination, stubborn resistance... and guts. And for how they didn't allow the bloody Luftwaffe to win the battle.


Oh so what was that dude's name. I'd like to thank him personally for losing the war for Germans. Thank you very much, Helmut, danke vielmals!

Oh, I regret that Robo, I understood it rather as serious.

Regarding the dude's name, strangely enough history did not gave the blame for the bombing to Helmut. It was a whole squadron that dropped the bombs in the city of London due to a navigational error.
Although I get to understand your kind of humor in the meantime, I will bother to lecture you that it might be responsible to spend some moments to consider the:
18,629 men
16,201 women
5,028 children
695 charred bodies whose sex could not be unidentified
who died in England from German bombs during eight months of the Blitz (if you think it is rather funny to say "Danke vielmals!" to Helmut).

Oh, and maybe also the 593,000 German civilians who died from the bombing of Germany.

And since it is apparent that you are too cool to appreciate deaths of innocent people and too little interested about historical reality (besides octane fuel and flight performance of the Hurricane and Spitfire) you may be interested to know that RAF bombed Berlin three consecutive times before Hitler outraged ordered the destruction of English cities:


On the evening of 24 August 1940 the Luftwaffe, whilst targeting London's docks, also dropped bombs on the city's financial heart and Oxford Street in the West End. This was probably not intentional, as it was in defiance of Hitler's strict instructions that central London should not be attacked.
Winston Churchill was outraged and, 24 hours later, RAF Bomber Command retaliated.
On 25 August 1940, the RAF launched its first raid on Berlin.
A second British bombing raid on the night of August 28/29 1940
Two nights later, a third attack occurred.

Subsequently, on September 4, Hitler threatened, "...When the British Air Force drops two or three or four thousand kilograms of bombs, then we will in one night drop 150-, 230-, 300- or 400,000 kilograms. When they declare that they will increase their attacks on our cities, then we will raze their cities to the ground. We will stop the handiwork of those night air pirates, so help us God!"
(Sarcastic note: It is amazing in what kind of messup God finds himself regularly into, from the massacres of the Mayas and the populations of Latin and Central America to the WWI, WWII attrocities and it goes on...)

Beginning on September 7, 1940, and for a total of 57 consecutive nights, London was bombed.
The decision to wage a massive bombing campaign against London and other English cities would prove to be one of the most fateful of the war. Up to that point, the Luftwaffe had targeted Royal Air Force airfields and support installations and had nearly destroyed the entire British air defense system. Switching to an all-out attack on British cities gave RAF Fighter Command a desperately needed break and the opportunity to rebuild damaged airfields, train new pilots and repair aircraft. "It was," Churchill later wrote, "therefore with a sense of relief that Fighter Command felt the German attack turn on to London..."


Anyway, enough about history, I know most people here are looking for fun and enjoyment but sometimes I am appalled by the lightness people consider things which only happened seventy years ago.

~S~