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Old 2nd Jun 2014, 12:43
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Chugalug2
 
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Aren't we in danger of basing our judgements on Goering's premiss, that predicted relative loss rates were the determinant? The RAF's fight was a fight for survival, it survived. The Luftwaffe's fight was to achieve Air Superiority, if not Air Supremacy, it didn't.

What it did achieve was to lose so many aircraft, and more damagingly so many aircrew, that its real fight for survival on the Eastern Front was fatally compromised. On both counts the Luftwaffe lost (0-1).
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