Recent content by scott cuppello

There is one flaw with the "home advantage" theory.....the defeat of the French, Polish, etc airforces and the inevitable defeat of the Luftwaffe.....lot's of reasons can be sighted, "home advantage" seemed to be more "home disadvantage"? I'm sorry, but I think you are really over-simplifying it.

Wiping the floor is incorrect, in part I don't agree with Lee Mallory's tactics, he didn't in part learn from the mistakes the Luftwaffe had made in 1940, that said, the RAF had little choice but to take the fight to the Luftwaffe over France, so I would call it a rock and a hard place...

Tante Ju, You need to read more books and get over your bias.

Ctrian, an over simplification, sorry, as for your final point, I assume you are talking operations in 1941 on?

Which explains perfectly why the Luwftwaffe lost the Battle Of Britain? The big wing was wrong, Park was exactly right......I believe the outcome of the battle speaks for itself, the Royal Air Force acheived what no other European nation achieved, the successful defense of it's homeland and...

German raids on Warsaw, Rotterdam and London could hardly be described has having finesse.

Put very well and very true.

I also think think that is very harsh, the Italian airforce had numbers and that was about it, machinery was not spectaular and as an airforce, as a whole, pretty ineffective unless we are talking air displays!Their early campaigns were fairly shambolic. You are talking about RAF night...

Well, everything I have read paints the picture of an airforce that started with tactical and numeric superiority but by 1941 the Luftwaffe was struggling with pilot losses, poor organisation and logistics, poor strategic thinking and so on. I think my point is that the Turkey shoot in Russia...

Wow, quite suprised to see the Luftwaffe out there in all honesty! Sorry, I'm new to this forum and this is my first post so I'm not going to rock the boat, suffice to say, I have read plenty that contradicts the poll!