Saturday, August 25, 2007
This Day in the History of Historical Distractions
On this day in 1940, at the height of the air war over England, the British Royal Air Force dropped its first bombs on Berlin. Some historians speculate that this act caused Hitler to switch from the effective bombing of the British fighter airfields to the ineffective bombing of London, et al., turning the tide of the Battle of Britain, but I've never read anything from the Krauts which backs this up. It makes sense that Hitler would go tit for tat, but it is just as likely that he mistakenly believed his bombing of the airfields was ineffective (they were just big grass fields with a few wooden buildings here and there after all). He was wrong about a lot of things.
Labels: WWII history; European theater
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:57 AM 
