What on Earth is all this about? The 15th is ALREADY Battle of Britain Day! And what the hell is 're-recognising' supposed to mean?'

I'd prefer them to officially recognise this in the UK: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

I'm not wishing to belittle the contribution everyone made to the fight in 1940 in Britain, but to be honest, a lot of crap is talked about the Battle of Britain. The Germans didn't even want to fight it in the first place, because they knew they didn't have a hope in hell of winning it, or of pulling off an invasion. And in any case, they preferred the notion of making peace with Britain so they could have a free hand against the Russians, which is why they kicked off WW2 in the first place. It's just that Churchill wouldn't let that happen.

You only have to look at the preparations involved for the 1944 Normandy landings, with the huge manufacturing power and numbers of troops contributions from the US needed to pull it off, to see that Operation Sealion would have been a complete disaster for Germany, who were already lagging behind Britain in fighter and bomber production and operational readiness by mid-1940. The Luftwaffe lost almost half their fleet of aircraft in making it to the Channel Coast before the Battle even started.

UK forces probably wouldn't even have had to 'fight them on the beaches' in 1940, because any German invasion barges would have all been nailed halfway across the Channel and never got near a beach, and that's if they didn't sink in a storm. The only possible way Germany could have kicked Britain's ass would have been with submarines and attacks on parts of the British Empire, which would have completely starved us out and bankrupted the country.

:D Chock

For my own part.....I think Rememberance Day encompasses all those who fought and fell for their country regardless of what arm they were in :yep:

Hell, I think there should be a Battle of Britain day in the US! What those pilots did is surely something to remember and surely something to honor. To all the pilots, ground crews, and everybody else that helped defend Britain in her darkest hour. :up: