If you could go on the beer with one person from history who would it be?

Manach wrote: »

Churchill - he could hold his drink and still deliver cutting on-liners.

"Mr. Churchill you're drunk!"
Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.

Yeah but as time goes on you keep bumping into his mistakes. He was they guy who ordered a bombing of a German city after the Luftwaffe accidentally bombed an English one. Which led to the Blitz.

Yes the plan to sail battleships up to the Ottoman capital and take them out of the war was genius. The stopping the sale of British battleships to them in the first place wasn't. And then the whole Gallipoli campaign after the element of surprise was gone ?

You can see why Boris aspires to be remembered like him, and maybe he will.

saabsaab wrote: »

The Blitz may have saved the RAF. The bombing drew attention away from the control centres and airfields at a critical time during the battle of Britain.

Not really.

Documentary on it said only one RAF airfield wasn't operational the day after an attack. Spare aircraft were being churned out by the factories. And most of the airfields were just big grass fields with tents and a telephone line. It also helped that it was one of the warmest, driest summers.


Attacks on the radar stations might have made more difference.

Or not forcing the Me 109's to stay near the bombers. Or spent so much time forming up over France with the the English listening in on radio and taking notes. End result Me 109's had 10 minutes flight time and when there was an attack they were starting from a know position that was lower and slower than ideal. The RAF had similar problems with their Big Wing tactic.


Just before the war the Germans took a Zeppelin on a grand trip along the UK coast. The Brits just turned off all the newest radars because they guessed what was going on.