Friday Update, April 13, 2012

[kristorf]

Originally Posted by Dick Tator

Very stupid and biased remarks towards spitfire myth post...

If at year 1940 Luftwaffe fighting doctrine would allow to use Bf 109 at it's full potential as a fighterplane in Battle of Britain, there would be no discussion anymore about spitfires nor miracle of BoB. The fact was and still is the spitfire is very inferior fighter plane compared to the Bf 109. Turn radius is only minor advantage which is so easily to countermeasured in terms of dogfight.
Why somebody thinks BoB was won by Brits and Spitfires specifically must be from the myth because Germans did switch their resources from Brit front to the eastern front to set up operation Barbarossa.


Read your history (not just winners very coloured history), you might gain something of it in terms of knowledge...

Originally Posted by kendo65

Dick Tator, let me introduce you to Sternjaeger - I think you two will get on famously...

Read Klem's post above for the reality.

In fact, everyone arguing about balance versus realism - read Klem's post.

+1

Also read Stephen Bungay's 'Battle of Britain' (one of the most authoratative and respected BoB books published), a compressed version appears in zapatista's post above (well compressed mate)

Originally Posted by kristorf

+1

Also read Stephen Bungay's 'Battle of Britain'

Cheers Kristof, I need to get hold of a copy of your recommended book. Thank you. I've read so many historical account of BoB before.

So we are in accord not to blame the flying crate but the tactics which mandated the outcome of the said airplanes. So the numbers game are more important than individual performance if we look at the outcome of the war, not just a fight.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by kristorf

+1

Also read Stephen Bungay's 'Battle of Britain' (one of the most authoratative and respected BoB books published), a compressed version appears in zapatista's post above (well compressed mate)

I found James Holland's Battle of Britain to be a good foil to Bungay's book.