| zuvuyeay said: it is silly to say some country won the war because of this or that but surely there is no doubt if the usa,canada,aus etc was not what it was then the uk would have gone to the germans no doubt,you could say the weather won the war for the allies in all honestly |
I actually watched a History Channel Battlefield Detectives episode that dealt with the Battle of Britain. Fact is the Germans were losing incredibly high numbers of planes in the battle. There were numerous disadvantages the Germans had besides England using radar. England had a very highly advance early warning system that included people watching in key areas for incoming planes near the coast. They also had transmission lines near all of these outposts to be able to alert a central air defense network to be able to dispatch planes within minutes to be able to intercept. They even did computer simulations with data thinking England would be depleted. However, the simulation showed Germany the one to be screwed over in the end with air numbers. The main German fighter ME109 also had a limited ability to defend German bombers due to range limitations. Basically, if they were to engage then they had a chance of not being able to return to airfields in France. Also one final disadvantage the Germans faced was the ability to inflict massive damage on English planes that were on the ground. England had a simple but highly effective way of protecting each aircraft stationed. It basically was 4 planes divided by walls so that instead of having all your planes lined up for easy bombing only one plane usually was destroyed and the others suffer little if any damage. Now, if Germany didn't attack Russia and focused on air and sea power (hunting the convoys even better) then they would have a serious chance against England. England wouldn't be able to compete against hundreds of ME 262 and German bombers if they were to focus on jet engines more and crank out the air power even more. England was also said to almost started having food shortages if the US convoys didn't come to the rescue. So being able to stop the convoys should have been more of a concern than communism. I have a book called Warplanes of the Third Reich and it is a very good read and shows excellent illustrations.
