"Andy Spark" wrote in message
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No the RAF was more than capable of holding out against the Luftwaffe.
The germans had the wrong aircraft the wrong tactics and well, just
about everything. -Even had they worked out what the strange looking
towers round the south coast were for and demolished them, enabling
them to knock out the RAF's frontline airfields, all the RAF would have
had to do was to pull their fighters back to the North of London (out
of the limited range of the german bombers) and continue sniping away.
-The RAF ended the Battle of Britain materially stronger than when it
started. -Of course they enjoyed the advantage of being able to recover
their downed pilots, and a large proportion of even the most badly
damaged aircraft,

It is interesting to look at the number of available fighter pilots for
fighter command throughout the BoB and note that it never declined below the
1259 available in the week ending July 6, it is also interesting to note
that the number of 'immediately available' single engined fighters in
storage units never dropped below 191.

Not minimising the importance of the battle, nor the bravery of the pilots,
but the BoB was not the 'near run thing' that it is frequently portrayed as.