There are many Posts from previous BoB days on Thread. As to the importance of the Battle, I once quoted Admiral Lord St. Vincent from two centuries ago:
"I do not say the French cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea !"
To which the RAF had now added: "Or by air !"
The enemy may have changed - but the logic held good just the same.
I have never been able to understand why the US does not publicly celebrate June 4th as "Midway Day", for on that day in 1942, their Douglas Dauntless dive bombers destroyed three of four big Jap fleet carriers (they got the fourth later).
Revenge was sweet, for this had been the carrier group which had attacked Pearl Harbor six months earlier. It removed any threat of attack on the US mainland, and broke for good the back of Japanese naval air power in the Pacific. From then on they could only lose: it took the US three more years to get to Okinawa - then the Bomb ended the war. IMHO, it was of equal importance to them as the BoB to us, for it reversed the course of the war.
Danny.
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