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Offline CAP1

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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #135 on: August 05, 2008, 04:46:48 PM »
ooooooo, i'm gonna get flamed for this, but i have to do this.


what do you think would've happened, if there were no polish, canadian, irish, american, or other pilots beside the british? and if we took out all aid recieved(regardless of wether or not it was paid for or lent, or free) from america, and the other countries that contributed to englands defense during the period in question?

 what i'm wondering, is if germany should've concentrated more heavily on stopping(or trying to anyway) england from recieving supplies from other countries. what difference would/could that have made? could germany even have done that?
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #136 on: August 05, 2008, 04:59:53 PM »
Because we are an island we wouldn't have been able to wage war without supplies shipped in from around the world - being an island nation was the reason for such a strong navy.  Look at the effect of allied submarines on the Japanese - they did a great job, especially the US submarine crews.  Also the British blockade of German ports during the first world war, although there was only one major battle (Jutland) the Royal Navy had a key role in the final surrender.

I don't think the Germans could have completely cut off the UK without a big technology leap in their submarine design.  Again one of the key factors in the Battle of the Atlantic was Radar.  If ever there was a war winning weapon then that was it IMO.

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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #137 on: August 05, 2008, 06:20:35 PM »
Quote from: CAP1 on August 05, 2008, 04:46:48 PM
ooooooo, i'm gonna get flamed for this, but i have to do this.


what do you think would've happened, if there were no polish, canadian, irish, american, or other pilots beside the british? and if we took out all aid recieved(regardless of wether or not it was paid for or lent, or free) from america, and the other countries that contributed to englands defense during the period in question?

 what i'm wondering, is if germany should've concentrated more heavily on stopping(or trying to anyway) england from recieving supplies from other countries. what difference would/could that have made? could germany even have done that?

Look at furbies list of BoB pilots in 1940...
As far as the German Stranglehold, it did reach it's climax in the subs "happy days" in 1940, then much later on. And Germany concentrated there as well as they could, but could not achieve a stranglehold.
However the RN kept the fingers around the German surface navy allright....
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #138 on: August 06, 2008, 09:56:00 AM »
Quote from: Furball on August 05, 2008, 04:28:21 PM
I think you may have misunderstood me, i was talking in terms of 1940 RAF over 1941 RAF, but i will make my responses in red anyway: -

and by the way, it is Britain not Britian.

Apologies for the mispelling Furball...
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #139 on: August 06, 2008, 12:25:28 PM »
Quote from: MajIssue on August 06, 2008, 09:56:00 AM
Apologies for the mispelling Furball...

That's ok - common thing :)

Pet hate of mine though, i can't help but comment on it.  Britian, Brittan, Brittian.  British people are worse at it than anyone else!
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #140 on: August 06, 2008, 02:16:07 PM »
Quote from: Furball on August 06, 2008, 12:25:28 PM
That's ok - common thing :)

Pet hate of mine though, i can't help but comment on it.  Britian, Brittan, Brittian.  British people are worse at it than anyone else!
Speaking as a lazy yank, I use UK!
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #141 on: August 07, 2008, 09:44:59 AM »
Well, you BRITONS  :D
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #142 on: August 07, 2008, 03:48:53 PM »
to quote Churchill : 
"What a chicken ,what a neck "
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #143 on: August 07, 2008, 05:06:29 PM »
Geez Angus, that looks like Stalin.
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #144 on: August 07, 2008, 07:16:14 PM »

             If Gen.Rommel had been in charge of the skies,Germany would have quite
        possibly owned it. He wasnt part of the "Buffoon" Brigade like the others, and
        had a well rounded sense of thinking and planning.190's and 109's would have
        been the new "Tigers" that our Tankers dreaded.


                                             
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #145 on: August 07, 2008, 07:58:53 PM »
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #146 on: August 08, 2008, 02:17:11 AM »
Quote from: Wyld45 on August 07, 2008, 07:16:14 PM
             If Gen.Rommel had been in charge of the skies,Germany would have quite
        possibly owned it. He wasnt part of the "Buffoon" Brigade like the others, and
        had a well rounded sense of thinking and planning.190's and 109's would have
        been the new "Tigers" that our Tankers dreaded.


                                              (Image removed from quote.)

 :lol

Yeah because they did such a great job of controlling the air over N Africa.
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #147 on: August 08, 2008, 05:41:56 AM »
Quote from: RTHolmes on July 28, 2008, 09:26:38 AM
aluminium pans etc were donated for aircraft, and practically every wrough iron railing in the country was cut down for steel too. If you walk around suburban areas you can still see the stubs on top of walls where they were chopped off (this wasn't optional!)

CAP its not new evidence surfacing, as much as trying to redress the inbalance caused by the Hollywood version of WWII, in which we Brits dont feature at all apparently :(

 Aww come on now.I saw a bridge to far :D You Brits were in THAT movie.And Patton too. :O
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Re: Battle of Britain II
« Reply #148 on: August 08, 2008, 01:43:36 PM »
Stalin was trying to look like lord Kitchener :D
And BTW, I did down my last and only Spitfire beer with a WW2 RAf Ace :D
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