"Defiant: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain" Topic

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Tango01	15 Jul 2020 10:41 p.m. PST
"'Robert Verkaik makes a revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant. This two-seat gun-turret fighter is, argues Verkaik, the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its crews is overlooked in standard accounts. To advance his case, he notes that a Defiant squadron still holds the record for the number of enemy aircraft shot down in a single day, with a claimed figure of 38'…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
emckinney	16 Jul 2020 10:39 a.m. PST
"Superficially Researched, Full of Mistaken Assumptions and Fatally Flawed" link "After 10 years of primary research on the Battle of Britain (MA) and night air defence (MA & PhD) I consider the Defiant was outclassed as a day fighter, and suffered from the same drawbacks as other visually intercepting (i.e. no radar) night fighters, so I was interested to see what compelling arguments would be presented. Unfortunately, such analysis will have to wait for a future book, as this one is littered with inaccuracies and contradictions, the product of superficial research and mistaken assumptions leading to faulty conclusions, as well as the misprints and spelling mistakes pointed out by previous reviewers …"
Tango01	16 Jul 2020 12:28 p.m. PST
Glup!…. Amicalement Armand
rmaker	16 Jul 2020 1:10 p.m. PST
38 claimed but how many confirmed?
Dave Jackson	17 Jul 2020 8:59 a.m. PST
read a couple of eviscerating reviews……not on my list!
Dave Jackson	17 Jul 2020 8:59 a.m. PST
Armand….not "glup"….rather, it's "gulp"….
Tango01	18 Jul 2020 10:41 p.m. PST
As I have said… "Gulp" is in english… "Glup" is in Spanish… (smile) Amicalement Armand

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