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13th May 2020, 16:08
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Luftwaffe failures against RAF medium bombers
In reading a lot of accounts of the war in the air over France in 1941-43 a lot of emphasis is made of the Jagdgeschwadern accounting for numerous Spitfires but in most raids it appears the German pilots failed to penetrate the fighter screen. In fact the only occasions that they make substantial claims against Blenheims, Bostons and Venturas is when the fighter screen is absent. Is this a tactical failure of the Luftwaffe and if so were fighter pilots ever called to account? Or did the LW feel the industrial targets hit by the bombers in Belgium, Holland and France were expendable?
Keith 
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