On Mar 23, 2:51*pm, Jim Wilkins wrote:

The relevance is if known Japanese experience predicts how well the
Germans might have done against the RN. To what extent had the skilled
attack pilots been lost during the BoB?

Germany never had pilots as skilled at hitting ships as the Japanese
did at the beginning of the war. If you want to know how the Germans
might have done against the RN during Sealion, look at their fairly
poor experience at Crete (as an example, or the convoy battles around
Malta as another) about a year later, with pilots who had some
training in attacking ships (Fliegerkorps X was not ready to attack
ships until January 1941 or thereabouts).

My entire point has been that any comparison between the Japanese and
the Germans is a waste of time, because the Japanese were so much
better. If you want to understand how effective the Germans would have
been, you have to look at their complete inability to stop the RN in
the Med. Basing any conclusions about the Germans on the Japanese is a
false equivalence.

Chris Manteuffel