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Chris wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:51*pm, Jim Wilkins wrote:

The relevance is if known Japanese experience predicts how well the
Germans might have done against the RN. To what extent had the skilled
attack pilots been lost during the BoB?

Germany never had pilots as skilled at hitting ships as the Japanese
did at the beginning of the war. If you want to know how the Germans
might have done against the RN during Sealion, look at their fairly
poor experience at Crete (as an example, or the convoy battles around
Malta as another) about a year later, with pilots who had some
training in attacking ships (Fliegerkorps X was not ready to attack
ships until January 1941 or thereabouts).


Or, even more to the point, at their capabilities during the Norway
campaign, which were pretty lamentable.

It was only after Norway that the Luftwaffe woke up to the need for
anti-shipping specialist units, but these units weren't ready in the
summer of '40 and played no part in the BoB. They debuted in the Med.
at the start of '41, where they proved much more formidable than
anything the Italians or, still more, the Germans had fielded against
ships before - but still came nowhere even close to the capability of
the Japanese naval air arm.

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Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth

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