XPost: soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 11/16/2019 8:15 PM, SolomonW wrote:   
   > On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 12:47:08 +1100, Phil McGregor wrote:   
   >   
   >> and Goering didn't   
   >> know that they were falling further and further behind the RAF *at the   
   >> time*   
   >   
   > Hermann Göring would not have known these figures, but he did know that   
   > something was going wrong. At Nuremberg, he stated that the losses were   
   > sustainable and he could have kept going but what mucked up the NAZIs was   
   > the lack of shipping for Sealion. If so, the question is, what was the   
   > point of this air war?   
   >   
   To make it safe for the shipping they did have, obviously!  :P   
      
   Slightly more realistically in Hitler's mind it was probably to punish   
   Britain for not surrendering and to scare them into doing so.   
      
      
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