Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Battle Of Britain: The 13-Hour Dogfight That Denied Luftwaffe Air Superiority | Timeline" video.

  1. Michael Greenwood childishly wrote: "The documentary states Germany was the aggressor. Yet it was the British who declared war against Germany." I do believe Germany attacked Poland which started the war. All sane people would call that an act of aggression.
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  2.  @noloferratus  Do these Jewish Communists eat babies as well?
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  3. Mark Methven Who is Britain actively fighting?
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  4. The RAF defeated the Luftwaffe over Dunkirk, so the Germans knew they were no push over. The Myth of the Few is that the UK barely survived this air battle. The facts do not support this. Aside from the home-field advantages the RAF held: greater loiter time, much faster turn-around, repair damaged aircraft forced down rather than having them lost permanently, the ability to return pilots who bailed out rather than having lost them for the duration. The Luftwaffe threw all their manpower into it, ceasing the rotating-out of pilots for rest & recuperation and to serve as trainers for the next generation of pilots. The RAF continued to do rotation all through. As such, they held a reserve. Had things turned for the worse, they could have suspended rotational operations to bolster resources, with the Luftwaffe unable to do such things. Germany lost considerably more aircraft and pilots every month of the air battle than did the RAF. The Luftwaffe was being bled white the RAF was becoming stronger. British aircraft production outperformed that of Germany year after year until 1944, by substantial numbers every year. It dropped because the RAF was taking in US made aircraft concentrating production elsewhere. The Third Reich was never going to establish air superiority in the skies over Britain.
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  5. Mark Harrison They did? Wow!
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  6. Mark Harrison To justify the USSR taking the eastern third of Poland.
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  7. Mark Harrison Not in 1939 they never.
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  8. Mark Harrison Pure opinion.
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  9.  @hertzair1186  Stop making things up.
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  10.  jeanluc305  The eastern European wanted to get the cantankerous Germans out of Sauternes Europe. After WW2 they got the lot out.
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  11.  jeanluc305  It was not German territory. The Irish want us in. Most Irish in Ulster want to be in the UK. It was Britain's business when a country invades another for no reason. The British said, "if you invade Poland or Romania, you are a war with us." Simple. Their choice.
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  12. Anthony owen Dream on. Stop looking at bad documentaries.
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  13. Frozen Fire If, if, if.
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  14. Frozen Fire The Germans were stopped in the west. over the skies of England in 1940. The Germans were stopped in the east. at Moscow in 1941. The Germans were on the run after two simultaneous battles: - El Alemein; - Stanlingrad.
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  15. The UK is not at war in Syria.
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  16. You are confused
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  17. WDTA UT Wrong. All German objectives failed. The most a base was out of action was about 3 to 4 hours. They failed: - To bomb London as they would have like to; - To destroy the radar installations; - To destroy Fighter Command;
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  18. The Mosquito was not operational as it came later. The Mosquito could outrace German fighters and dog fight with them. It had the same load bomb load as a B-17 as well.
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  19. "Much has been made of the disparity in German and British aircraft production during the critical months of the Battle of Britain. In the second half of 1940, desperate efforts on the part of the British enabled them to produce twice as many fighters as the Germans, which was no doubt reassuring in giving the RAF an extra margin of security. But this was hardly decisive to the outcome of the battle. The fundamental point was simple: in 1940 neither Britain nor Germany had developed the technology nor had they mobilized the resources necessary to provide the kind of smothering air superiority that would make a cross-Channel invasion into a viable proposition." - Wages of Destruction by Prof Adam Tooze
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  20. Alan Moore That is why British planes were mostly forbidden to fight over the sea. The pilots could bail out over land.
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  21. davidtsw It never really mentioned any, just the RAF.
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  22. Alan Moore The gigantic Royal Navy was there.
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  23. Mark Harrison The Axis had already lost the Battle of Britain before they started. It was a silly idea.
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  24. Mark Harrison They had a choice. The picked the wrong one.
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  25. Mark Harrison Another zipperhead.
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  26.  @markharrison2544  A complete idiot.
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  27. The UK & France gave assurances to Poland and Romania that if they are invaded they would be involved. The Germans knew this an invaded Poland. The British and French did not invaded any country to gain their territory. They acted in principle against thieves.
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  28. romanek022 It never said anything about any squadron, only the RAF.
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