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  1.  @brianjones5379  I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly foreign pilots". Below is a graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the ACTUAL number of aircrew from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. The figures are taken from the RAF records of the awards of the highly coveted "Battle of Britain clasp" to the British 1939-45 Campaign Star, which was SCRUPULOUSLY only awarded to RAF & Fleet Air Arm aircrew who flew at least one active sortie in the UK in any RAF or Fleet Air Arm fighter aircraft between 10th July 1940 and 31st Oct 1940. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent).
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  2. @Jeremy-y1t "The UK attacked Germany in 1914 & 1939." Only after Germany made unannounced attacks on unprepared neighbours in 1914 (Belgium) and 1939 (Poland).
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  3.  @mikdavies5027  Exactly Mik, and we receive nothing but opprobrium for everything we did.
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  4. Stop watching on a phone, tablet or TV FFS, and watch on a computer with an adblocker installed instead.
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  5. They should have been as unlike all the other allied nations pilots at the time they'd been filtered through 9 months of previous combat so only the best Polish pilots made it to the UK, as a result they had the most combat experience of all the assembled RAF pilots, though the rest quickly caught up with them. But we still thank them for their service, which is witnessed at every rememberance day parade in the Great Britain, where the Polish nation is ALWAYS well represented.
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  6. As a fungal infection slowly infiltrates its host, so has the lies and corruption of corporate globalism subsumed the BBC along with most of the UK's political establishment, in much the same way as it has across much of the western world.
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  7. You do realise that historical "footage" was captured on finite reels of bulky celluloid film. Probably lasting 10 minutes or so. It wasn't like the war correspondent had a handy digital camera with a 10 terabyte memory card in it and could record for hours at a time, and then when submitted to his/her superiors the reel of film would then be edited to remove irrelevant runs of film to prepare the individual film clips for intelligence or public consumption.
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  8. Get your wallet out Bill !!!
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  9. Why not use a letter less and just say RN?
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  10. Nowt to do with the profiteering yanks... at this point in history they were quite happy carrying out VERY profitable trade with BOTH sides of the European war. Britain saved ITSELF... INSPITE of the US as much as it did BECAUSE of the US.
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  11.  @glennpickard2239  Depends on what dates & figures you're using, but I won't argue with your figures. I just have to dispel this current misinformation agenda that tries to portray the battle as a minority British effort. Keep up the good work.
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  12. "Lost interest" Hahahahaha... Great one that,
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  13. I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly foreign pilots". Below is a graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the ACTUAL number of aircrew from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. The figures are taken from the RAF records of the awards of the highly coveted "Battle of Britain clasp" to the British 1939-45 Campaign Star. Which was SCRUPULOUSLY only awarded to RAF & Fleet Air Arm aircrew who flew at least one active sortie in the UK in any RAF fighter aircraft between 10th July 1940 and 31st Oct 1940. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent). But keep in mind that at this early stage of the war the UK was defended by +95% British troops.
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  14.  @johnsmith-vz3vr  The Polish "bomba" machine as it existed in Polish hands in 1939 was unable to read almost all of the various "flavours" of enigma through the war. what the "bomba" represented was the basis on which the rest of the Bletchley park code breaking effort was built upon.
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  15. The 58.5 confirmed kills of the Polish 303 Squadron were indeed a great help towards the total of 1385 confirmed Luftwaffe aircraft lost to enemy action between July to October 1940. They are STILL honoured EVERY year at remembrance day and battle of Britain day parades the length and breadth of the UK.
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  16. Neither did the Royal Navy... they spent 6 days relentlessly chasing it.
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  17.  @maconescotland8996  I'm so bemused by the constant misspelling of AVM Park's name that I forgot to correct the spurious charge made against him. Thank you for making the point.
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  18.  @nickdanger3802  We bought & paid for them from the US, why? Also just remembered that Britain bought the first 2-3000 Brownings from the US TOGETHER with the license to produce them in GB, so the VAST majority of them were built by BSA in Birmingham UK, and Vickers Crayford works in London, Oh and the avgas was the same that US Standard oil provided to both Germany and the USSR prewar, so that levels out the playing field in the boB. As I say profiteering from BOTH sides.
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  19. Picture the scene....May 1945, one of the USN's most modern carriers, USS Bunker Hill, is hit off Okinawa by kamikaze. 363 sailors were killed and she is put out of action until after the war's end. A month earlier, also off Okinawa, the "obsolete" (1940) RN carrier HMS Formidible is hit by kamikaze (Formidible was one of the four "Invincible" class carriers, and one of the RN's fleet of 59 aircraft/escort carriers used during WW2). The bomb the kamikaze released prior to impact bounced off Formidible's armoured deck, and the remains of the actual kamikaze aircraft were "brushed over the side", the "dent" in the deck was then filled in, and planes were flying off the carrier again within 6 hours. 8 RN crew were killed in the attack.... "Formidible" by name "Formidible" by nature. So much for your evaluation of RN "obsolescence". Seems like the USN could've taken a leaf out of the RN's book with regard to its "obsolete carriers".
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  20. No, they very much HADN'T neglected it. Their technology in 1939-40 was far more advanced than the British, but two problems confronted the nazis in 1940. 1. Air warning radar was FAR more useful in defence than in attack. 2. After the wehrmacht had captured 13 complete sets of British army "Gun laying radar Mk1" (effectively the same technology as the British "Chain Home Low" air warning radars) after the fall of Dunkirk, they assessed British radar as being of far lower technical ability than their own Freya & Würzburg radars, but they then failed to appreciate the hugely effective utilisation of the more rudimentary British radars, as implemented in RAF fighter command's "Chain Home" (Or "Dowding") air warning system.
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  21. Best leave before we splurge all over you.
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  22. Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE.
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  23. The US provided NO troops/pilots to the UK in 1940. the NINE US pilots who took part in the battle of Britain did so as individuals who decided to break US neutrality laws and "do the right thing". The rest of the US at the time was happily profiteering from BOTH sides of the European war.
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  24.  @simongee8928  Any you think D-Day went without hiccups? DD tanks not arriving? Landing craft hitting the wrong beaches? Preparatory bombing not hitting beach defences? Overlord took 3 years of planning and took place 70 miles from the UK mainland.... The Falklands was planned at VERY short notice and took place 7000 miles away.
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  25. You mean the battleships of the puppet Vichy regime?
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  26. You mean the depiction of the glorious British triumph over nazism? Why come and watch if you hate facts?
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  27. I see Doveton above has provided all the information required to rebuff your complete BS. Hurry up now Roge, if you're quick enough you might just be in time to catch the flight to your "worker's paradise" of North Korea.
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  28. The Bismarck itself wasn't feared, when it appeared, it was chased & hunted relentlessly until it was sunk, what was feared was what it could do to merchant shipping, a subtle but important difference.
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  29.  @BlindPidePiper  Without question the US was the MAJOR player on land in Europe, then again thats a result of national populations, 149 million US citizens in 1939 with the UK having 47 million at the same time, of course thats without taking the "Empire troops" into account, but in as much the same way as the US was contesting the pacific, the British empire was also providing the majority forces is the Mediterranean, East Africa, middle east, India and Burma, and once again it should be remembered that D-day would never have been able to take place without the majority UK/Canadian naval aspect of the amphibious landings in addition to the 3 landing beaches that they covered. So its entirely understandable that the "average Joe" in the UK looking at history doesn't immediately consider the Pacific war / China, the same as the average American doesn't immediately think of the middle east, India and Burma, and more often than not considers "D-day" as a purely American effort.
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  30. Ships are inanimate so do not posess any inherent gender, but both British and German custom is to describe ships using the feminine pronoun. Bismarck's captain, Ernst Lindemann, made a decree that Bismarck's crew should use the male pronoun. His decree does show that ships are traditionally referred to as female in the German language, and unless you were serving onboard Bismarck "she" is the normal form of reference.
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  31. GEORGE Dowding? why give a name check to >5% of the pilots and then generalise the rest of the 95%?
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  32. Britain was primarily a maritime empire, having a relatively small population and its colonies being spread across most of the world's continents... Germany was a land based power. Exactly why Britain could never have liberated Europe alone (instead giving an excellent assist), just as Germany could never have cut Britain's lifeline across the Atlantic with her navy.
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  33. What was it about then Sherlock?
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  34. US corporations supplied BOTH sides of the European war, and continued to carry out VERY profitable business with the nazis even after the German declaration of war on the US on 11th Dec 1941.
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  35. No The UK couldn't beat the Germans alone. An amphibious landing on the continent was an enormous undertaking, but even if we managed a major landing the British did NOT have the massive land armies that the nations of continental Europe possessed. But on the other side of the coin, the nazis could not defeat the UK. So your conclusion of a stalemate appears to be the correct one.
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  36. What? The only allies were the UK and France. NO-ONE else lifted a finger to oppose nazism in Europe.
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  37. No, she was at the time of her sinking the largest battleship (by displacement) in the world.
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  38. German objective - Crush the RAF and conquer Great Britain. British objective - Conserve the RAF and prevent the German invasion. Result? RAF Fighter Command finishes the battle stronger than when it began.... Luftwaffe loses over 1700 of it's aircraft, most of them with their highly trained prewar "experten" aircrews, Britain is not invaded. Please view this link, it's symbolic of the nonsense you're talking. https://youtu.be/ZmInkxbvlCs?t=146
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  39.  @lisathomas627  You fail to understand the inner workings of the mind of the wehraboo. When the Germans win, then they're "uber". When they get their arses handed to them, "they weren't really trying ".
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  40. Good post Ed !!! Tell it like it is !!! 😁👍
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  41. The British actor Robert Powell.... best known for his portrayal of Jesus in the 1970 TV epic series "Jesus of Nazareth".
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  42.  @MyTv-  And You too !!! Best wishes from the UK. 👍👍👍
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  43. "Allied aerial bombing had little effect on any of this"... that's NOT what Albert Speer thought.
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  44. Nonsense.... please detail how you believe that would have happened?
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  45.  @PDZ1122  Sad wehraboo, trying to make out the battle was equal. Or Course it wasn't equal, the RAF were FAR superior to the luftwaffe, inspite of being outnumbered in the defence of Britain by a margin of 4 luftwaffe aircraft to every 1 RAF fighter.
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  46. No "they had to use so mnay" because they were looking for a needle in a 41,000,000 square mile North Atlantic haystack. After she had been stopped from running away just 2 battleships and cruisers tore her to pieces. Both the KGV class and Nelson class were both better armed and armoured.
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  47.  @philliphogg2329  I'll spell it out for you again... after she had been stopped from running away, Bismarck was completely dismantled in 30 minutes by just 2 battleships and 2 cruisers, with just one of the battleships, HMS Rodney, doing the majority of the damage.
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  48. An escaped gunman, sniping at tourists stalks the Rocky mountains. How many "state troopers" is it gonna require to bring him down? Needing a thousand feet on the ground doesn't mean the gunmans a giant that needs 500 men to fell him, Only that he's hiding in a vast wilderness. Just 2 RN battleships and 2 cruisers ripped Bismarck apart.
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  49.  @glennpickard2239  I do NOT mean to diminish the courage and resolve of our Commonwealth compatriots, Britain was the "mother country" of a vast empire who all gave their best in the fight against tyranny. We are all stronger together. All the best.
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  50.  @charlescoleman4017  Your grasp of English comprehension is top flight Charles, commenters of less rigorous logic and comprehension (as well as the many programmed lefty "Brit haters") either cannot or choose not to understand. One category deserves our help, the other, our contempt. I have NEVER diminished the contribution of other nationalities (indeed even though I am obviously a Brit I had a Canadian 1st cousin from Golden, BC who as a tank driver in the 28th Canadian armd regt was killed during "Operation Totalise" on 8th August 1944) and I am aware of the massive contribution towards the security of the UK's "Atlantic lifeline" that the Royal Canadian Navy provided together with the RCAF and its part in the air war and the BCATP as well as Canada's unending supply of resources, and will argue till I'm blue in the face in defence of their honour and service they provided, but I REFUSE to see the stoicism and resolve of the British general public be diminished or mocked without challenge. Likewise the Poles, Aussies, Kiwis, Indians, Czechs and Free forces etc, EACH deserve the honour, recognition and credit for their own war effort & war dead... but I won't see it done by misrepresenting what the British public went through, including the >450,000 British citizens whose lives were lost in opposition to fascism & Japanese militarism... NOT that that was your purpose.... but for PLENTY of others it is. All the best Charles.
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