Uwe I don't think the Brits look that disorganizsed
Pah, Brit propoganda!
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](https://bassoutpost.com/Smileys/default/mrgreen.gif)
Shooting down lonely Heinkels, Dorniers and even a lumbering Ju-87. The Battle of Britain was luckily won by the good guys, but it wasn't a feat of superior organisation, but of daring fighting spirit, sheer luck and an ill-prepared opponent:
Initially the RAF fighters suffered losses for their antiquated WW I tactics of flying closely together in larger groups (dubbed "Idiotenreihe" or idiot row by the German fighter pilots who had less losses than the RAF Fighter Command throughout, it were the German bombers which had the mounting losses) as opposed to the two fighter aircraft "Rotte" of the Luftwaffe (one guy seeking enemy aircraft, one guy protecting his butt). But the RAF learned its lesson quickly and changed tactics to the German system during the BoB.
The Luftwaffe was ill-equipped for a pure airwar, its bombers without enough bombing load and dependent on the protection by Me 109s (after defense by the twing engine long-range Me 110s failed) who had too little range to efficiently engage the RAF fighters in air combat AND keep close to the bombers.
Still, there was a short period during the BoB where British fighter losses were higher than the possible replacements, the bombing of RAF airfields, costly as it was for the Luftwaffe, was taking its toll and proving effective. Had it continued, the RAF would have been at the end of its fighter supply after a few more weeks. It was at that point (and after a Heinkel crew losts first its way and then its nerve and bombed non-strategic parts of London in order to jettison its bombs before flying home thus giving the RAF Bombers an incident for retaliation) that an RAF bomber sortie to Berlin did very little actual damage but provoked Hitler into having the Luftwaffe subsequently bomb London continuously and stop the raids to the individual RAF fighter air strips. A huge mistake/stroke of luck for us all!