Sorry if I did not make myself clear on the subject. All in all I was meaning the spirit and all the men/women in the RAF when I was talking about the 100-150%. If you have lousy mechanics you canīt win with great pilots etc. Or all the other people involved like women as radar operators etc. These all are important parts of the system and all added to the victory gained in the end. And this is what makes the great victory; the nation united against the enemy. This takes it to the 150%; the spirit within.
Sorry about my sarcasm about the " We can afford the losses". I guess I have heard that one too many times. Usually this means that "I hope we can afford the losses". Itīs only afterwards you can be sure the other side could not.
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People always look at the losses of Fighter Command and they fail to notice that the Luftwaffe was suffering even more.
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It is a well known fact the Germans lost a whole lot more planes. I donīt think anybody questions this.Big losses however donīt always mean you end up losing the war. Just check the Ost front statistics and Germans would have been clear cut winners by August 1941. No other nation could have stood the losses of that magnitude. ( even Halder wrote in his diary that it seems the USSR has lost at the time ).
ANd when it came to the battle of Britain which was, I believe, the first of its kind of warfare. How can anyone predict how it will end? The famous "bomber always gets through" theory and the first calculations for expected civilian losses in London? They did not happen even though those were the principles when the bombings were about to start. And Iīm glad they did not.
