allandwf
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Nowhere near I'm afraid.
Mine was totally uneducated, and wishful thinking seeing the other guesses.
Nowhere near I'm afraid.
Not this time boys; how many aircraft, to the nearest 1000, did the British Empire lose during WW2? And how many were fighters?
Ok lets tweak a bit 42000 total 31000 fighters
You've watched too many Hollywood films, the RAF bombed mainly during the night and the yanks during the day. Not heard of the 1000 bomber raid, Dresden or the dambuster raids? I know you live in Kent but Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk was bomber country.I think Zag is close, I'm sure I read it was about 40,000 when they did a bit on WW2 before Armistice day. I'm guessing most were fighters because of the Battle of Britain, and when we were bombing Europe, we had the Yanks to do that.
So I'll go with 35,000
That's almost bang on; 42,010 total with 30,000 fighters and 12,000 bombers. I'm sure different sources will have different numbers. Your go Zag.
You've watched too many Hollywood films, the RAF bombed mainly during the night and the yanks during the day. Not heard of the 1000 bomber raid, Dresden or the dambuster raids? I know you live in Kent but Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk was bomber country.
Something to do with the Royal Society, chairmen or something..
Haha, one of those ones I'd know, but want watching the forum.That will do, your go
Thank you Andy,
Leading on from your question, what connects the President of the Royal Society and a 'Brown Dog'. A one word answer would suffice, but an essay of no shorter that 1000 words would also be accepted.
I have no idea either although there was a Brown Dog scandal back in the early 1900s to do with Vivisection (is that how it's spelt - looks wrong) but no idea if that had anything to do with the Royal Society