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Originally Posted by 6S.Manu
Yes, really a nosense... Where did they usually fought? Over France? I understand that the British radar was usefull to intercept the bombers... but doing it near the French coast is a bit irrealistic, don't you think?
IIRC they were fighting near the english coast or over England... then the 109s have to go back for the range issue.
Answering to the second question: it was difficult to save the pilots, since Churchill ordered to attack the rescue planes/ships too. So even if they bailed out they would be dead in water without the help of the rescue planes, while by emergency landing on the ground they could go home on their feet (like many did on the eastern front).
Could the german pilot return to home on their feet from english territory?
And about the Channel being irrelevant: do you really think GB could defend itself against the german infantry and panzer armies?
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Desparate straw clutching, the Germans made their own bed so they had to lie in it, the Germans tried a bombing operation to gain air superiority, they failed, had they succeeded, the channel would have been a little pond for them to float the panzers across to finish us off, obviously it's a bitter pill for some to swallow but the Germans were just human beings too, they weren't the fantasy Imperial stormtroopers with amazing alien technology that some romanticise about, they weren't as brilliant as some think and the British were not as bad as others think, the channel was not some secret weapon we magically created at the outbreak of war...it's been there a long time....it's not our fault.