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Old 7th Nov 2017, 20:06
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Herod

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I believe, and stand to be corrected, that another advantage to the RAF was the fact that the Me109 had a very short range, therefore little combat time. Add to that the fact that any German airman who bailed out was a prisoner, whereas an RAF pilot was back to ops pretty quickly. The same applied to damaged aircraft; the German was a total loss, whereas the British ones could be recovered/repaired.
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