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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
What difference it would make? Perhaps a clearer understanding on the events, as most English literature quoting the lossess of 915 vs 1776 (or around) fails to mention they are comparing apples and oranges : whereas all types (fighter, bomber, transport, operational, non-operational, enemy, non-enemy related) of losses are included in the quoted Luftwaffe lossess, the numbers are for RAF fighter combat-related total writeoffs only.
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The precise loss figures are interesting but the battle wasn't decided by awarding scores. The winner was the side that achieved its aim. Britain sought to survive as a combatant nation and it did so. Germany (as far as they ever really decided
what they were trying to do) sought to force Britain out of the war either by negotiation, occupation or economic strangulation - they failed.