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Originally Posted by TheyCallMeBruce
That's correct. One of the major mistakes Hitler made. Also, I believe Goring had ordered the stuka divers and the bf 110 to scale back the attack because they were losing great numbers due to vulnerability, but Hitler had insisted that they proceed with their missions, causing massive losses.
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At that point there weren't alot of Stukas left, they were a great plane, but incredibly vulnerable to the superior Spitfires, the Bf 110 was an example of a good concept gone wrong as they couldn't get enough of the original motors so they built them with smaller twin engines which ment that the bomb loads that they carried were much smaller, they were slow, had a terrible climb rate, and couldn't take a lot of damage in comparison to the British heavy Lancasters, and the American B-17's.