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To: Homer_J_Simpson; CougarGA7; dfwgator

Still no mention of the “Air Marshals” directing these aerial battles; Park, Dowding or Leigh-Mallory. Same for the Germans; Sperrle or Kesselring. Some mention of Goering, but he was CinCINO. (I just made that up.)

I recall that after the Fall of France, the Times did a post-mortem on the defeat in a fairly long analytical article. It wasn’t entirely accurate, but at least they wrote one. I’m not sure we are going to see one after the BoB. The Battle of France had a definite end in the wagon lit in Compeigne. The BoB just sort of peters out morphs into the Blitz after the Nazis give up the idea of invasion. It’s just that they don’t bother to tell the world. Of course, why should they? Then they might have to leak out that instead of Britain, Hitler wants to go after the USSR.

So without a definitive end, we may not get a post-mortem until some time next year, if at all.


14 posted on 08/27/2010 7:50:00 AM PDT by henkster (A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
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To: henkster

The Nazis figured at least that Britain was neutralized and wouldn’t be a threat, they could always get back to dealing with them later.

Of course the big mistake was not thinking that inevitably America would get into the war.


15 posted on 08/27/2010 7:53:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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