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Re: German & Allied radar
In order to assess the respective efficiency of the Allied and German radars, it is also useful to consider how the Luftwaffe performed against the Allied air attacks, especially from mid-1941 to mid-1943 when JG 2, JG 26 and JG 1/JG 11 resisted a growing air offensive in the West without having to divert strength from the Russian front. Of course, the objectives of Fighter Command were not those of the Luftwaffe in 1940, but it may be argued that its leaders did the same mistakes than Göring during the BoB, applying rigid tactics against a flexible fighter force guided by an obviously efficient ground control system. Besides other factors (like the superiority of Fw 190s over Spitfire Vs), the Luftwaffe had the advantage of being able to ignore the (rather weak in the mid-war period) effects of daylight bombing on occupied territories, so as to fight only when the more favourable conditions were met; but one important role of ground control is exactly to create these "more favourable conditions".
It would thus be interesting to assess the part played by the German radar and ground control system in this undecisive, but IMHO real German victory.
Jérémie
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