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Originally Posted by Schroeder
His comparisan of the 109 to the Spitfire is an utter fail.  |
I was taken by his passionate display of the differences in the guns. Half-baked information is worse than no information at all.
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Originally Posted by Oberon
This is true, but many of the other statements are true, in terms of the odds were not as stacked against us as it is often stated, particularly since the infamous sea mammal would have been an abject failure if attempted and as such was not really that much of a serious proposition.
Not by any means to degrade the value of the sacrifices of the pilots of both sides.
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I completely agree. I'm sure at the time a lot of people were terrified that Britain might fall, and that has been reflected in books written in the following thirty years or so. I've seen "We almost copped it!" and "They never had a chance!" - sometimes in the same book. It was pretty much a repeat of the whole Armada thing.
Of course I'll also agree about the men who fought. They followed their orders and did what they thought was right.