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Does that man that we should also loose the German aircraft brought down by AA fire, balloons and all the other various means at Britain's disposal during the BoB? If you're going to do a reality check at least get the figures correct... the official recognised figures are 544 RAF aircrew...

The biggest possible failure would actually occur if the Germans did land large elements of the army, the British manged to contain them and the Royal Navy is used to destroy resupply convoys. The RN would be able to do some damage to the first wave but not stop it completely. The best case...

Just because the first successful raid didn't occur till 1942 it doesn't mean there weren't several earlier attempts including at least one before the BoB in May 1940. But I'm still not understanding your point particularly... I'm probably wrongly assuming that you're trying to say that because...

Not quite sure what your point is here... Think I'm probably being a bit thick. Just a quick two minute search through my records indicates that German bombers were over Derby on 19th, 27th, 28th August and on 1St, 2nd, 9th of September. I didn't go beyond those dates and didn't look for...

That's the way I read it ... BoB not Sealion

I believe personally that the battle was a much closer run thing than our friend Mr Bungay would lead us to believe. Yes the number of pilots increased marginally throughout the battle, yes by the end of the battle, 31st October 1940, the British produced over 1600 Spitfires and Hurricanes and...

That and budget constraints... Spend more on the navy you get less for the army and RAF, poorer performance in France and a less able defence of the UK.

No they didn't