Living it day-by-day, 70 years ago.
Just a quick follow-on from the Post yesterday to say that the BBC have published an excellent graphic that allows one to review the events of the Battle of Britain day-by-day.
The link is here – well worth looking at. If only because it shows that the week of the 23rd August 1940 was one of the more bloody weeks in the whole battle. From that BBC web page:
The defence of Britain by RAF Fighter Command against extensive air raids by the German Luftwaffe in 1940 ensured Britain’s survival and blocked the possibility of invasion. Roll over the graphic to see the daily toll inflicted on men and machine in the Battle of Britain and read James Holland’s commentary on why Germany lost.
Very sombering.
By Paul Handover
Learning from Dogs 
Once again, it leaves silent the Battle of France. The Luftwaffe was so depleted that it could not attack right away, and it’s this that delayed the Battle of Britain, not some mysterious Nazi stupidity.
It’s part of American plutocratic propaganda to claim that the French were cowards who did not fight in 1940. But they did, and so did the hundreds ameii
PA
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Little puzzled by your approach. Even if US Governments have tried to position France as cowards (evidence please), and to my mind that is an enormous ‘if’, so what!
This isn’t about the battle of France or any other part of Europe. This is about the Battle of Britain – it happened and many pilots paid the ultimate price for defending a British way of life that was worth fighting for.
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Paul: I wrote a long answer, very interesting but my computer crashed and my baby is screaming. That you restrict the Battle of Britain to saving the “British way of life” well, leaves me speechless. Distinguishing Battle of France from that of Britain is a classical error. 1/3 Luftwaffe was out by June 15, 1940.
About American plutocracy making Hitler all it could be, a first approach could be to look at:
http://patriceayme.com/ltr_005_honor.html
And I have been a personal victim of anti-French racism in the USA, heavily resting, as it does, on a misinterpretation of history.
The USA was no friend of democracy in 1939 and 1940 (differently from Canada, say).
P
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
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