[ElAurens]

Can I just have a pint of bitter please?

I do miss a good English bitter.

It always used to shock the locals at the pub when I (a scrawny at the time American, all of 18 years old) would order a pint at the local when I was in Cambridge in 1972...

Oh, and some good English stilton or cheddar as well please?

But I digress.


One thing I rarely see in these arguments about the real BoB, is the discussion of the production/industrial aspects of the campaign.
Just as the RAF was better organized for the defense of the homeland that the Luftwaffe was for attacking it, British industry was on a far more organized war footing than German industry was.

Aircraft production was constantly rising over the time of the fighting, in stark contrast to German aircraft production, that was not really keeping pace with losses, though the Germans did not understand this at the time.

Also, the British aircraft industry was dispersed enough that taking it out in total could not happen.

And we must also take into account the fact that the RAF was a very mature organization. It had a depth of experience that the very young Luftwaffe simply could not match. Add in all of these factors, and the fact that the Luftwaffe was so overly politicized, and the outcome should never really have been a surpise.


Carry on.