Despite 'actually winning', the Ju87 was withdrawn from the Battle after August 18th having suffered unsustainable losses. The tactic of attacking airfields had already failed ; the only Sector Station ever to be put out of action was Biggin Hill, and then only for a few hours on September 1st.

The 'Hitler spite' regarding the attack on London theory is an old chestnut. Kesselring had, from the outset of the Battle, pressed for an all-out attack on London to draw the RAF fighters into battle. Sperrle disagreed and argued that the RAF should be destroyed on the ground. As we have discussed here many times before, actual ground losses for the RAF were minimal and Kesselring's view that the RAF should be forced into the air by massed attacks on a single target in daylight finally prevailed in September. Hitler made his famous speech for Political reasons but the daylight attack was made for military reasons.

The salient point which everyone seems to overlook is that the Battle of Britain was fought by Germany with the objective of a swift, overwhelming Political victory ( ie a collapse of National will, as had happened in the Blitzkrieg on the Low Countries ).

And, tough though it may be to some to have to admit it, they lost.

And, if they'd continued attacking airfields and relying on their 'Intelligence', they'd still have lost.

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