Tactics for Cliffs of Dover.

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Originally Posted by Ernst

But when fighter gone against fighter the fight was very well matched, not the Turkey shot some were saying.

Yes the fighers were well matched. Pilot stories all say the fighters were well matched. Can you quote where someone said this was a tukey shoot (or words to that effect), because we know that wasn't the case. A lot of the pilot losses are down to the fact that when the RAF bailed over Britain, they weren't captured, and British fighters had 1 pilot in them, vs several airmen in a German bomber. With that in mind though, the RAF shot down more German aircraft because of better tactics. One annoying thing for red pilots in IL2 is the lack of ammunition in Spits, but this wasn't such a problem in real life, because pilots don't tend to shoot down 5 opponents per sortie in real life.

It ll be not surprise if many just not come home crash landing in the Channel by no fuel, not destroyed by RAF.

I'd give them more credit to be able to read their instruments than that (unless they've been shot and had a fuel leak).