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33. They never invaded Britain because Hitler believed in Goerring

Reply to obamanut2012 (Reply #24)

Sun May 6, 2012, 04:49 AM

May 2012

Goerring told him the Luftwaffe could get rid of Britain's air defences thereby making it an easy target for invasion, but the Luftwaffe's plan to bomb British airfields was thwarted by superior equipment in the form of Spitfire fighters which were faster and more manoeuvrable than the German fighter escorts. This was the Battle of Britain in 1940. Hitler had been all set to invade that year, but when Goerring's airforce was shown to be inadequate for the job, and lost many aircraft, Hitler switched to bombing cities, the invasion was indefinitely postponed and never happened because then he decided to invade the USSR and the rest, as they say, is history.

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