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From the Bedeviling Left to the Battle of Britain

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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Did the Germans Have the Right to Have That Mind Set?

Germans never admitted that, but if you look at the initial spit fires, it was comparable to german b f one o nine. But when you actually looked at the performance when the spit fires were fighting, they were as good. And so the second thing to remember is that hitler had not conducted a strategic, sustained bombing campaign. Hed done it over amsterdam, dam et cetera, but not really. They had never, ever developed a four engine bomber. So what i'm getting at is these planes were not very fast, and they didn't have a high bomb load. Their tactics of taking out the radar and getting rid of the airfields was working,

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