How Capable Was The Royal Air Force In WW2?
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How Capable Was The Royal Air Force In WW2?
In 1939 the Royal Air Force was only twenty years old and it had not fought a technologically equivalent adversary since WW1. Fighter Command and Bomber Command both faced serious challenges from 1940 onwards. Which raises the question, how capable was the Royal Air Force in WW2?
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