Response to Glider and Juha.

[Juha]

Hello Tony
Germany knocked France out of war in 1940 partly because its all-arms system but not GB, in fact GB survived alone one year partly because LW wasn’t a strategic AF, not a big deal in itself because there was no effective strategic AF around in 1940.

4. RAF didn’t scrap 40mm gun Hurricanes, they moved them to Theaters in which losses were bearable. In NA 6 Sqn claimed to have hit 144 tanks of which 47 were claimed destroyed but lost 39 Hurrica IIDs to AA. In Burma 40mm armed Hurricanes first destroyed or knocked out 12 Japanese tanks while losing one Hurri and on 19 Feb. 45 20 Sqn destroyed 11 Japanese tanks without loss. Hurris in Burma were mainly used against river crafts because scarcity of Japanese AFVs there. But clearly AA was much weaker in Burma than in NA not to say in NW Europe . So what worked in Burma not necessary suited in ETO.

Juha