[Juha]

Hello Peter
I agree with the airfields but in the pilot situation one must remember also the development on the other side, permanent losses of the SE fighter pilots were almost equal on the both sides and also LW was running out of combat ready 109 pilots. Near the end of Sept 40 they had more combat ready 109s than combat ready pilots to fly them. They had only 676 of them, that's only 60% of the establishment.