Spitfire mk ia >>not!!!<< mk iib

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

Not only that, but it's not correct.

The reason the Brits won, and Germany lost was because Hitler decided to concentrate on the cities and towns rather the AIRFIELDS! like was originally planned. If Hitler had continued his bombing of the British airfields, the RAF would have ceased to be a threat to the Luftwaffe or Germany ground forces; giving them the chance to invade.

In the book, Duel of Eagles by Peter Townsend, who was a British fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain. He explains the whole Summer of 1940 campaign, and how if Hitler had kept his concentration on the airfields, then Britain for sure would have been invaded.

So Radar did not win the Battle of Britain by any means.

this debate could go any number of ways.

For me personally i find the following won up the battle of britain -

RADAR

Spitfire

Hurricane

109's only having enough fuel for 20 mins combat over england

HE111's not having escorts all the way to targets and back

Our pilots getting shot down being able to get another plane and fight, the luftwaffe on the other hand become POW

Piss poor desicions by the german high command regarding targets

"Spotters" of the home guard along the coast

limey pride and attitude

Those damn nice strawberries during the summer of 40 and the great home baked bread, cracking i tell the!!

Pilots from all nations even those not in the war yet, comnig to our iad and fighting for the RAF.

luck

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

this debate could go any number of ways.

For me personally i find the following won up the battle of britain -

RADAR

Spitfire

Hurricane

109's only having enough fuel for 20 mins combat over england

HE111's not having escorts all the way to targets and back

Our pilots getting shot down being able to get another plane and fight, the luftwaffe on the other hand become POW

Piss poor desicions by the german high command regarding targets

"Spotters" of the home guard along the coast

limey pride and attitude

Those damn nice strawberries during the summer of 40 and the great home baked bread, cracking i tell the!!

Pilots from all nations even those not in the war yet, comnig to our iad and fighting for the RAF.

luck

True.

[Lexandro]

You missed a few;

Skill, the pilots still had to have the skill to take on the battle hardened germans and survive

A large set of testicles, because only the likes of Douglas Badder would want to get back in a plane after loosing his legs.

Scotland, because we helped out a lot and didnt get much credit at all (we never do).

Ingenuity, Britain made massive strides in warfare and battle planning thanks to genious ideas.

The man from the post office, who invented the "counting machine". (name him and the machine to win the interwebs)

[Ancient Seraph]

Originally Posted by Lexandro

You missed a few;

Skill, the pilots still had to have the skill to take on the battle hardened germans and survive

A large set of testicles, because only the likes of Douglas Badder would want to get back in a plane after loosing his legs.

Scotland, because we helped out a lot and didnt get much credit at all (we never do).

Ingenuity, Britain made massive strides in warfare and battle planning thanks to genious ideas.

The man from the post office, who invented the "counting machine". (name him and the machine to win the interwebs)

I do not completely agree with those. The german He-111 pilots must've had a lot of balls as well to fly unescorted to the UK. And I'm pretty sure there were a lot of skilled pilots on the German side, but they could only fly for 20 mins over Britain.

[FOZ_1983]

anybody that gets in the air to dogfight back then had balls.

Except the russians, they didnt even realise they were airbourne, they were to pissed on vodka hahaha