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Re: Placing the Fairey Battle.
I will not play with one cherry-picked example, chosen to make your point, not necessarily representative, and disguised to hide any and all other contributory factors. Clear? Single cases prove nothing. That the RAF was not adequately prepared for anti-shipping operation in 1939 is clear and widely accepted already.
Your misapprehensions about the P-39 and Typhoon's armour have been addressed elsewhere, as has your continued refusal to accept the vulnerability of the dive-bomber in an intense AA environment. The armoured Hurricane Mk.IId existed in 2 TAF as the Mk.IV up until May 1944. Perhaps you should consider the reasons why it was withdrawn (to the relief of its pilots).
As for the use of emotive terms such as butchery, for every one man butchered in a Typhoon two would die in a Vengeance. I suggest that thought for its men just might have featured in RAF thinking.
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