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Originally Posted by bongodriver
Stearn....have you read 'fighter boys' by Patric Bishop?, I just got it and haven't read it yet, what is your oppinion on this book?
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Sorry Bongo, not directed at me, but I have.
Fighter Boys - Patrick Bishop - Published by Harper- Collins:
Page 404 para3;
''Fighter Command dealt Hitler's forces the first defeat they had suffered since the war began. The battle of attrition that the Luftwaffe was forced to fight had a profound effect on it's future efficiency. A Luftwaffe General, Werner Kreipe, later judged that the decision to try to destroy the RAF had marked a turning point in the history of the second world war. The German airforce was bled almost to death and suffered losses which could never again be made good throughout the course of the War.''
It's a very very good book.