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May 6 09 3:59 AM
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As Shane stated, the RAF and BC and CC will have some serious changes thrusted at them. Churchill will give them no choice but to bomb rail yards and staging points in the north of France to slow down the German's moving to the south. The German's will have no choice but to deploy fighters in her rear to guard these points and clash with Bomber command. That means that though they maybe attributed to the BoF, more BC planes and CC planes will be lost. AT the start of the BoB historically in July they had 560 bombers in BC and 500 planes in CC. This will be a lot less when the BoB in FFO starts in late August. The Defiant and Battles maybe slaughtered during this period but over the channel or French coast. The may not even make it to late August when they are pulled from frontline service. This maybe where the RAF gets more pilots btw as there was a serious historical push to transfer the pilots over to Hurricanes. The German's meanwhile will have mostly fighters in the north and thus will have to devise tactics to do the enemy as much harm with no bombers. The best way is to close down the English channel and conduct fighter sweeps over it until Britain re-routes there ships. Each ship's mayday will force the RAF to respond and engage in a battle they are not equipped for. There fighters will take longer to get armour on them, not having the respite they had between the BoF and the BoB. Also as it is later, the German Me-109 will have drop tanks by the time bombers do show up in late August. So with the battle starting with the German fighters not tied to slower bombers they will meet the RAF fighters on and equal footing. This may quickly make the RAF have to chose what battles they can seriously fight. This maybe also a serious problem later when the German bombers show up as the German's will have air superiority over the channel and possibly parts of southern England. Not contested as much and the British radar operators needing those few weeks to identify the difference in the bombers to help vector the RAF fighters may mean more infastructure in southern england and the RAF's bases will be more damaged then historical.
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