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Originally Posted by Graham Boak
It would certainly make a very different impression from what you get from RN histories, which have much to say on the lamentable inadequacies of their AA armament. Opinions which were clearly reflected in the refit and rearm programmes.
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It seems from what I've read so far, based upon their tactical response to shipborne AA, that the Luftwaffe had a very healthy respect for RN AA. It also seems that much of the critical comment regarding RN AA was actually generated post-war, although no doubt every sailor wished for more and better AA. Wartime accounts and post-war memoires appear to indicate that RN also thought their AA was, or could be, effective, and they were making lots of AA kill claims. I'd really like to take another look at the RN's experience of air attack, place it into historical perspective, and retell it without the post-war bias.