Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10975360-20131208111308/@comment-3398633-20131210203349

Germany had an inferior airforce, but it was much larger. Had it not been for the radar, then the British would have suffered from attrition, meaning that their best pilots would either dead in battle, or they'd lose too many planes than could be replaced. And the Battle of Dunkirk took place the same year as the Battle of Britain. Germany had just beaten the "superior" force in France, there was nothing stopping them from during the same in Britain with the exception of the Channel. The only difference would be 1.5 million poorly-trained teenages armed with inferior weapons. And Sandhurst Military College (British West Point) conducted a wargame about a landing on Britain by Germany without German air support and British air superiority. They kicked tail up until the GHQ Lines which bogged the German down long enough to get a surrender out of the Germans. With German air support, the British were defeated after a long and bloody campaign, in which the British were forced to capitulate. This was carried out by the best war historians in Britain. I'll take their word over everyone elses.