re: #113 subsailor68

Kind of like the German pilots during the Battle of Britain? IIRC, the RAF boys would bail out over England and fly again, but the Germans ended up in either the Channel or a British POW camp.

Exactly….one of the advantages when you’re defending home base, so to speak. An interesting bit of trivia is that it’s arguable that the Battle of Britain was lost because of the lack of an auxiliary/droppable fuel tank on the ME-109. They were short legged and thus didn’t have any appreciable loiter time over England to fully protect their bombers……