The Battle of Britain Was The First Defeat For The German Luftwaffe.

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Originally Posted by bongodriver

This is all a fair point....but the waters got very muddied in this thread, it stated as a question on how the Luftwaffe took defat in the battle, then some very one sided oppinions came in saying there was no victory, this was argued with no proof of any such case, but anybody British who contributed was attacked for being 'Nationalist', and the rest of the thread became a slanging match and anti-british witch hunt.....the original topic fell by the wayside.
In the interest of fairness why doesn't someone start a thread on everything the British need to be ashamed of.

Well, that is not quite false as well. It all really developed when Stern jumped in and did not call it a victory. In the course of that debate a lot of the old clichés came out, and that is what got this debate now kick started.

On the other hand, aside some very personal insults thrown by some in this thread by both sides of the argument, I think this thread was highly interesting and quite beneficial in understanding where ppl come from. Not a bad result at all, imho.