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Originally posted by Richard42:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by pillboxesuk:
The more interesting scenario would have been the German defeat of the RAF
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They nearly did until they switched to bombing cities. </font>[/quote]The story that the RAF was saved by Luftwaffe attacking London instead of the airfields is one of the great myths of WW2
On the 6 September 1940 the RAF's Fighter Command had 750 serviceable fighters and 1,381 pilots available, an increase of 150 planes and 200 pilots from the beginning of the Battle in July.
The Luftwaffe was not even coming close to winning the war of attrition
On the 5 September Air Vice-Marshal Park commander of 11 Group spoke to his Chief Controller Lord Willoughby de Brooke " I know you and the other controllers must be getting worried about our losses" Park said "Well I've been looking at these casualty figures, and I've come to the conclusion that at our present rate of losses we can just afford it. And I'm damned certain the Boche can't. If we can hang on as we're going, I'm sure we shall win in the end"
On the 7th September the Luftwaffe blinked, they bombed London