Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "How was the Battle of Britain Won? | Animated History" video.

  1.  @Hdusiekwbshsjs  <ahem> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_planned_invasion_of_the_United_Kingdom
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  2. Though it would have been rather unlikely to succeed.
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  3. @Mieliepit: Nazis were more competent on the operational level than on the grand strategic level.
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  4. @Y0ddl3 Yeah. Wikipedia isn't always reliable but I think we can fairly certainly say invasion plans existed (though were later abandoned).
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  5.  @ThermicLight : At that point, they won the "Battle of Britain" which was just one part of the war.
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  6. And didn't the Poles also destroy something like 25% of the Luftwaffe?
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  7.  @simohayho8622 : A little bit off-topic, but isn't your username misspelled?
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  8. It's in the logo!
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  9.  @jaywiegs1712 : Wouldn't the Germans then have depleted their bombers instead?
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  10. I'm not entirely sure I agree. 1) It was 7000 at the Battle of Thermopylae, not just 300. 2) That battle wasn't decisive. The Persians still burned Athens (though they did eventually lose the war). 3) It's quite plausible that democracy would have emerged in some other place if it didn't happen in Athens. It's not very credible that there was only one chance for it to initially emerge.
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  11. Weren't there some bombing raids on German soil already at that point, or do I misremember?
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  12. There's no reason accidentally killing civilians couldn't happen. There can also be reason's to avoid targetting the enemy's civilian population, namely avoiding a retaliation on your own population. This was the case for a while during the Battle of Britain.
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  13. "Where’s the recognition to squadron 303 from the polish people." It's at 6:34.
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  14. It's in the logo!
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  15. I suspect it's because civilian targets had lower military value than e.g. factories and such an attack would needlessly provoke retaliatory attacks on the German population which Hitler saw some value in avoiding. I'm not entirely sure though.
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