In message , Guy Alcala
writes
"M. J. Powell" wrote:

In message , robert
arndt writes
Britain won the BoB because Churchill bombed Berlin and spoofed Adolf
into diverting the the airfield assaults onto London. EOS.

Grantland

Let me add that it was a lone German bomber that ditched its bombs
over London that caused the British reprisal raid on Berlin and change
of tactics that: relieved Fighter Command, enabled the airfields and
manufacturing plants to be repaired, and assured the Brits that the
German battle for air supremacy would fail now that civilian targets
were being hit instead of military ones. EOS indeed!

The story I found said that it was a lone bomber, aiming for one of the
Kent airfields, which decided to approach from the north-east over
London. They spotted Croydon and misidentified it as Biggin Hill(?) and
unloaded. Croydon was in the London area.

No, Croydon was mistakenly attacked (instead of Kenley) on 15 August by a
formation of Me-110s from Erprobungsgruppe 210 led by Rubensdorffer. This
isn't the mistaken attack on London: Hough and Richards "The Battle of
Britain" (while written for a general audience, it still has some useful
info) says that it was during a night bombing raid on August 24/25, and that
the City of London itself was hit, "in Fore Street, near the Barbican", as
well as some scatter elsewhere.

A raid on the docks at night? Dodgy if you want to miss the City itself.

Mike
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M.J.Powell