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It took two and a half times longer to manufacture a Spitfire than it did a Hurricane and the Hurricane was the easier and quicker to repair following battle damage. What Britain needed in Summer 1940 was pilots and aircraft and as many as it could produce, repair or train. The rate of Spitfire production during the Battle was a constant concern. The gun layout in the Hurricane wing made it well suited to going after the bombers. It was Dowding’s insistance on not reinforcing the RAF in France with Spitfires which enabled him to preserve , 77 planeshis force for the forthcoming Battle of Britain. It was the attacks, mainly by bombers, on British airfields which came closest to defeating the British; it was the need for the ME109s to provide close ■■■■■■ to the bombers that handicapped the Germans. The Luftwaffe gave up because it found that rather than destroying the RAF it was actually meeting RAF fighters in larger numbers.As opposed to B17 pilots being happy knowing that the Mustangs and TBolts were doing their job of escorting them well away from them and where they didn’t see them in action.
The B17s that went on the two Schweinfurt raids didn’t see escorts, perhaps, but must have seen 109s and FWs. They had 26% losses of aircraft and 22% of the ‘happy’ aircrew, 77 planes, 590 KIA,43 wounded and 65 POW.
Yep ‘temporary loss of air superiority over Gemany’.Bearing in mind that Goering said he knew the war was lost when he saw the Mustangs over Berlin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweinfu … rg_mission
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ra … chweinfurt
Ironically the Spitfire came out of all that smelling of roses even though it was obviously never designed as a long range ■■■■■■ fighter just like the TBolt wasn’t.
Tbolt v FW190 who would have thought it.
Why not use the Mosquito F MkII. 
Oh and check out Doolittle’s strategy here ‘’ abandon the bombers’’ ‘‘shoot down the fighters’’ as and where.Exactly what Galland had called for in the Battle of Britain.
As I said happy air crews with ■■■■■■ fighters doing what they were designed to do.
‘‘Freed of close bomber ■■■■■■ duty allied fighters, particularly the P51, decimated the Luftwaffe’’.
Bearing in mind that the FW190 D9 wasn’t in it at that point in time and which was a game changer v P51.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Week
Galland was obviously no fool and he rated the Spitfire from the Battle of Britain to the Griffon powered MkXIV over Germany.Saying that the best thing about the MkXIV was that there were so few of em.If only Mitchell could have seen it.Hopefully maybe he did maybe he’s even reading this. 
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