The Battle of Britain Was The First Defeat For The German Luftwaffe.

[JimmyBlonde]

The facts of the conflict are that no further attempts were made to invade Britain.

Whether the initial attempt was half-hearted is irrelevant, the outcome ensured that Nazi Germany ran out of time and resources to accomplish its aims due to their preoccupation with more important campaigns.

Had the Luftwaffe swept aside the RAF as intended, and as they probably could have done, that would have been a defeat for Britain whether the invasion was a success or not. There's no middle ground, a costly victory is still a victory even though it might lead to disaster further down the track which, in this case, it didn't.

Would you say that the Channel Dash was a German victory? They got their ships through the channel at a high price but, after the Channel Dash, those ships contributed practically nothing to the war effort. They basically drained resources from other areas and were eventually destroyed.

But they got through the channel.

The RAF clearly contributed greatly to the war after BoB so that compounds the miracle of their survival and, to my mind, adds weight to the argument that BoB was a defeat for the Germans and a victory for the British.