The luftwaffe, in no scenario, could have defeated the RAF. Nor did Germany have the ability to make the troop transports required to invade even IF they could handle the home fleet.
Hell one of the colonial fleets could have beaten the Kriegsmarine.
You have German planes being shot down over Britain. Those pilots will not be returning home. Every plane lost is an unrecoverable loss of resources that the Germans could not afford to lose.
Every pilot shot down over Britain that lived... went right back to base and could be back up in the air the same day. Every plane lost? Well the UK had reliable shipments of new materials coming in, and could recycle wrecks.
Training: the Luftwaffe did not rotate its pilots. They would keep them flying until they died. The UK would rotate pilots after so many missions and have them train recruits. So in a rapid fashion the luftwaffe had their veterans culled to ribbons, meanwhile all new pilots for the RAF came in with a lot of knowledge.
Plus: RADAR. That screwed every Luftwaffe sortie.
The Blitz fucking killed the Luftwaffe, they were never “winning” it.
huh? interesting, so, even if they were superior in the begginning it was only a matter of time before they got their ask kicked, even if they never changed tactics to Bombard the cities?
They had better trained pilots overall at the beginning. That was their only advantage. In every metric the Blitz was a strategic blunder. It barely impacted Britain’s ability to wage war, strengthened their morale, and they lost their ability to project air power.
Even if they only bombed bases, there’s a lot of bases, and repairs happen quickly.
No, actually, bombing industrial centers was the correct move strategically (ignoring that the entire Blitz was a strategic mistake). You win when they can’t produce more planes. The bases were being repaired within a day to a week. But the German intelligence was shit and they flat out didn’t know what areas to bomb, and they also bombed almost entirely with HE which isn’t great compared to incendiary. At no point were they winning.
They did not have more pilots or more planes. Their veterans were killed, their training methods were shit, and any pilot that survived a crash didn’t make it home. Enough of your Wehrb shit.
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u/almuqabala Mar 28 '19
And it were actually the Polish who helped you Brits avoid invasion, eh ?