John Freck wrote in message ...

Germany lost more planes than the Allies during the
Fall of France.

RAF losses 10 May to 20 June 1940, forces in England
and France, due to enemy action, 931, includes losses
on the ground.

Luftwaffe aircraft lost May and June 1940 1,129 to enemy
action, 216 not due to enemy action.

French Losses in the region of 800 to 900. Then add the
Belgian and Dutch losses plus the RAF losses from
Norway since the Luftwaffe figures include such losses.

Germany lost more planes because the planes were
vunerable. What made them vunerable was flying low on ground attack.

The next departure from reality, the majority of the Luftwaffe
bombing sorties were medium level interdiction sorties,
level bombing. A major reason the losses were high was the
Luftwaffe was not good at escorting those strikes, the speed
bombers like the He111 were expected to be fast enough,
after all they were in Spain.

Flying low makes a plane vunerable to ground fire and attacking enemy
planes coming from above.

But this is not allowed to stand in the way of the preferred
lower altitude fighter bomber and twin engined bomber
solution.

Geoffrey Sinclair
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