Part of the RAF's distain for supporting the Army and Navy can be blamed on the constant attempts by those services in the 20's to kill the RAF.
The Forge of Weyland
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Now now, the navy looked on it more as putting it down humanely...
I think it was more the way a pair of butchers eye up a still-bleating baby lamb.Now now, the navy looked on it more as putting it down humanely...
Perhaps ironically the roles they want to do most and complain about not doing whenever asked.
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Were there any serious propositions to expand the FAA to take over Coastal Command and the like?
Or even the same for the Army Air Corps to be a Tactical Airforce?
Or even the same for the Army Air Corps to be a Tactical Airforce?
The RAF brass wasn't too keen on spending money on fighters. It went against their mantra that "The bomber will always get through".
To be fair the bombers usually did.
When you buy any yard or DYI equipment take a look at all of the silly warning stickers on it and wonder "Why do they need to warn me about that?".. Weeeell.
Whether or not they did anything useful when they got there remains the great debate about strategic bombing that remains debated to this day...
Reading the USAF's own post-war audits on how effective strategic bombing was a real eye-opener for me, both for its frank assessments and the conclusions of 'eh... not really'.
The problem is that the RAF and Air Ministry were very much a mirror image of Goering in one aspect. "If its got wings its mine, mine, mine and you can't have the precious".
Hunh? That's a standard science fair kind of thing to do. All you should get is a tingle.
Sure it wasn't something else, and he CLAIMED it was only a 9v?
There was a serious argument over Coastal Command during the war, they compromised by giving the Navy control but not ownership
Or barebed wire fences with electric insulators... had a friend in college do that did not end well
That was before the invention and development of RADAR. Once RADAR appears, the bomber will never get through.
The populations of Hamburg, The Ruhr, Berlin and Dresden aged over 80 beg to differ. Germany had a substantial radar network.
They could detect them but they were unable to 100% intercept them. In the UK, they were able to intercept most incoming raids and attack their formations of yes, bombers...
While true, how many nights did RAF aircrews spend bombing the bejesus out of fields? Didn't Germany think the RAF were bombing cattle on purpose? The RAF relied mainly on luck and persistance early on. Night fighters were kind of second place compared to German air defence crews starting fires in the woods to trick the bombers following the pathfinder flights.
Glyndwr01
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If I remember right they were told not to bomb privately owned factories in the early months of the war, because the powers that be were worried about legal action!
Now I want an AU where Nazi Germany has an army of lawyers and sues Britain into submission.