Good GOD!!:mad:
You want Stats, Just reference ANY of the sites you or I are posting from. We are using the same ones for numbers, Moron.
I quoted the Imperial War Museum, The RAF, And a noted Historian CONCLUSIONS about phase II of the BoB!!
You have yet to produce ANY site which supports your conclusions. Do it. Simple as that.
Fact's are, you cannot. Facts are, your argument is not supported by history. Everytime I have asked you to that simple thing you have sidestepped it.
Here Gripen,
Just like this. As Agent Friday used to say, "Just the facts".
Even the Imperial War Museaum says the LW almost won in September.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/battle...in/overview.htm "The crucial period of the battle was between 24 August and 15 September. Fighter Command came closest to losing when its vital sector airfields around London were attacked. The decisive turning point came on 7 September when the Luftwaffe switched its attention to the capital. This tactical blunder allowed Fighter Command to recover its strength rapidly to inflict, on 15 September, losses significant enough to show the Germans the battle could not be won."
Notice the wording: "Came closest to losing..."
No lets look at Lund's conclusions about the BoB found on page 26 of the his document and pg 31 under adobe thumbnails:
"In the final analysis, perhaps the Germans
could have won. Perhaps, if they had
aggressively pursued either campaign
strategy they could have won, but that will
always remain conjecture."
Gosh that is exactly what I have been saying.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ww2/batlbrit.pdf A site that deals in WWII artifacts:
"The Battle of Britain raged over the skies of southern England throughout that late summer of 1940 - the Luftwaffe lost a total of 1,733 aircraft from July to October, the RAF 915. Had he but known it, Göering was only 24 hours from victory at one point according to British Flight Command. All our reserves were spent and our pilots were exhausted. Incredibly, Göering decided that the Luftwaffe were taking too much of a punishment from the British fighters and he ordered his planes to switch their attention away from the British airfields and towards the British cities. Whilst this was bad news for the civilian populations of the industrial cities, this gave the R.A.F. and the aviation industry a reprieve and a crucial breather to re-arm and re-stock. It also meant that a German invasion of Britain had to be postponed and that Germany was soon to turn its attention eastwards - a decision which was arguably to cost them the war."
http://www.retrosellers.com/features61.htm Notice it says "All our reserves were spent"
And Finally the Royal Air Force:
"Heavy fighter losses in France saw Dowding warn the War Cabinet of the dire consequences should the present wastage rates continue, and a letter dated 16 May 1940 is one of the great documents of history. After covering the evacuation from Dunkirk, he had just enough aircraft to fight the Luftwaffe in the one place they could be effectively used - within the comprehensive air defence system he had built in the UK. Even so, he admitted that the situation was "critical in the extreme" and while it is true that the immortal "Few" - his 'chicks' as Churchill christened them - won the Battle using the organisation he had created, the Luftwaffe lost it through bad leadership, faulty tactics and mistaken target selection."
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/commanders.html Well that is straight from the horses mouth. Let see your sources without YOUR opinion placed on them. Just quote them without making an argument.
No amount of "data manipulation" to advance YOUR own view will change the facts of history.
End of Story
Crumpp
