At the risk of going slightly OT. Bomber and Coastal command's activites attacking the German invasion buid up during the BOB doesnt get a lot of coverage. From memory more Bomber and Coastal command aircrew were killed during the BOB than Fighter Command for instance.

I made a campaign in IL-2 re this and it was interesting to learn while doing the research that Fairey Battles and Swordfishes conducted a bunch of raids againsts targets in France and Holland etc. And Blenny fighters often escorted the Blenny bombers during daylight raids on invasion build up activities - this helps explains the high loss rate i guess

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...etails&id=1723

Ezzie