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It's a first class disaster.


Again not really. It's no where near the 1500 to 1600 projected in there estimates in October, 1939. When you also consider the RLM started the 1939 campaign with over 4100 first line aircraft, 6100 pilots, and 6500 trained aircrews. Lost 189 pilots and aircrews in Poland for 261 aircraft shotdown. Was training by mid 1940 about 600 pilots a month. Before BoF 2/3rds of the pilots and aircrews had never seen combat. To lose 900 pilots and aircrews in BoF in FFO will not be felt that much this early in the war. Even losing close to 1500 in the OTL BoB did not degrade the RLM to much. The RLM averaged throughout the war a 7:1 kill ratio, fought battles with the allies having a 10:1 superiority average in the war. Skewed heavily because most of the 1945 battles were something like 100:1 against.
To throw out a question. By the POD the French airforce had lost over 1/3 of its aircrews and pilots with many more lost after the POD during the retreat. Even with that in FFO she seems to have kept/maintained her Kill ratio and even improved on it?
For the RAF they lost 400 aircraft in the BoF ( almost 20% of there frontline aircraft ) and it didn't effect them much and still managed to setup a very effective training program over in Canada.

Russ / Roller007