The Battle for Britain

JU87 was certainly used during BOB.

In response to Pekau:

Edited by gcle2003 - 26-Jan-2007 at 04:30

Originally posted by Paul GCLE is right as usual. It was quite unlikely to see a�JU 87 over British skies.

Some of them arrived above Britain and bombed.

I'm talking about the story of BOB. Not other district.

am afraid Germany would have successfully invaded Britain if the R.A.F. had been destroyed, because Germany possessed the best equiped army in europe

The Battle of Britain always makes me misty eyed for courage shown by the British people. The Germans could have invaded, but Hitler backed off every time he had the chance to press home his advantage. One has to ask why he didn�t and the real reasons remain obscure. He didn�t want an outright invasion; he wanted England to surrender or at least sue for peace. His troops would then march in unimpeded as England became part of the New World Order. He then planned to surround England by �the ring of steel� - giant fortresses and awesome gun batteries situated on islands around the coast of Britain.

 I know because I have been inside them in the Channel Islands, the only British territory that Germany ever occupied. I have never seen such precision engineering on such a large scale. Overall the Germans acted very polite to the island population for they were under strict instructions to impress and keep the island economy afloat. Many people worked for the Germans for they paid better wages.

 The Nazis hired the Todt Organization to build the fortifications, a hired private organization that used eastern European slave labour. If one collapsed the guards threw him into the concrete for there were plenty more. The islanders and most soldiers were not allowed anywhere near the sites and had no idea of how the tunnels were built.

Early on the British had cracked the enigma code. Hitler suspected something was wrong but never quite figured out what it was. The British seemed clever enough to second guess his major moves that never quite made it for his foes had actual information that enabled them to use effectively use stealth attacks as a major weapon. 

Originally posted by Knights There is this thing called the English Channel though, and the German invading force would have to face the British Navy before even being able to set foot on land. This could be very dangerous, because if the nazis are defeated, a lot of their army has the potential to be lost.

Top ten squadrons, in order of number of aircraft shot, nationality and type of airplane: ( July - November 1940)

sq 303 - 126 1/2 - Polish - Hurricane
sq 602 - 102    - British - Spitfire
sq 603 - 98     - British - Spitfire
sq 92   -   94 2/5- British -Spitfire
sq 501 - 93     - British - Hurricane
sq 41 -    92 2/5 - British - Spitfire
sq 609 - 90 1/3 - British - Spitfire
sq 74   - 86 - British - Spitfire
sq 213 - 81 - British - Hurricane
sq 249 - 75 - British - Hurricane

As you can see overwhelming use of Spitfire is a myth. Hurricane was a very capable airplane. It is also worth noticing RAF was a very international air force. It had Polish, Czech squadrons and more nationalities flying in British squadrons.



Edited by cavalry4ever - 23-Mar-2008 at 02:57

Originally posted by Jonathan4290 Definitely cavalry4ever. British squadrons also included Australians, Belgians, Canadians, French, Irish, Jamaicans, New Zealanders, Palestinians, Rhodesians, South Africans and Americans in addition to the Poles and Czechs.

I believe only Poles and Czechs had their own squadrons in the Battle of Britain. There were many mixed squadrons. Poles had squadrons 302 and 303, Czechs squadrons 310 and 312.
What was interesting that Czech ace Joseph Frantisek flew with 303 (Polish squadron).

Edited by cavalry4ever - 23-Mar-2008 at 22:55

Originally posted by jacobtowne Pekau wrote: "German bombers knocking out the Britain's radars." I'd like someone else's assessment here. I've been under the impression, rightly or wrongly, that German bombers failed to destroy the British coastal radar towers. In one of my books there is a photograph of German troops practicing boarding and debarking  "assault craft" prior to the scheduled Sea Lion operation. The boat is a flat-bottomed, flat-topped, river and canal barge with low gunwales of the sort known in Northern Germany as Binnenschiffe.  And these people expected to cross the English Channel in these things? JT