What an esteemed idea exchange here up and yes Neil, where is that like button
Actually I'm reading the Battle of Britain period of Ulf Balke's KG2 chronique. My german is good, but far from perfect and I am surely not able to pickup every single detail in the text, but I was astonished to read different times the Germans reached their target and were able to bomb it resulting in massive fires in the assigned bombing areas. Mr. Balkes describes the frequent use of radio beacon navigation methods when objectives are clouded over.
My point is that even in the later phase of the battle, results seems to be booked, even with lesser well formed or simply lesser pilots and admittedly not the most consistent objective choice.
The defense seemed to obtain lesser results than in the first period, probably due to the shift to night operations.
This is new to me as I always thought the Battle to decrease in quality from September 15th on.
OK I can imagine the horrible impact a bombing put on people, but, and it is easy to judge afterwards, knowing the facts that happened, I still esteem that the failure of the BoB for the Germans was misplanning and largely underestimation of the strenght of the ennemy and of the needed strength to archive an invasion (What preparations and how many tons of material and human resources were used for D-Day for instance)