Compared with the Navy, although the British Royal Air Force did not take advantage of the air battle until the end of the Dunkirk retreat, there is still one aircraft that breaks the myth of the invincibility of the FW190, that is, the British "Mosquito" fighter-bomber, which was originally designed as a bomber. Originally, although in terms of aircraft performance, even if the "mosquito" fighter-bomber is used as a fighter, it is not much worse than several shijie advanced fighters in service in 1941 in history, but the problem is that the FW190 in this time and space is actually born out of the American F4U carrier-based fighter that was only in service in the middle and late stages of World War II in history. As a result, the Mosquito fighter-bomber unexpectedly gained a huge advantage that the Luftwaffe could barely solve

Because the fuselage of the "mosquito" fighter-bomber is made of balsa wood and glue, the reflectivity of these non-metals to radar waves is much lower than that of metal materials such as aluminum alloy, and today's radar jishu is far less advanced than that of later generations, not to mention the airborne radar with insufficient power, even if it is a ground or shipborne radar, it is also difficult to find wooden planes in the sky. After the "Mosquito" fighter-bomber entered the war, it basically only flew out at night or in dense fog weather, and the German airborne radar could not detect it at all, and even though its other performance was inferior to that of the German fighter, the outcome of the battle between the two sides was almost without suspense

As a result, a mere dozen "mosquitoes" who were not full-time combatants actually shot down 54 German fighters during the Dunkirk retreat, while only 2 were shot down themselves, with an exchange ratio of an astonishing 1:27. This is more than 300 times compared to other models in the UK. If it weren't for the fact that the number of "mosquitoes" equipped by the RAF at this time was only a small amount, the Luftwaffe would have been forced to abandon its sorties at night and in haze

This "wooden miracle" caused a great sensation in Britain and even in the whole West, and the pilots of the "Mosquito" did not forget their own work, in addition to competing with German fighters for air supremacy in the English Channel, they also participated in night bombing operations on the German mainland many times, while the British seized on its extremely low mission loss rate to carry out great publicity, making the "Mosquito" famous all over the world.

Previously, the commander of the Luftwaffe, Goering, boasted that not a single enemy plane could fly over Berlin unharmed, but the "mosquitoes" that came and went freely were tantamount to slapping them in the face on the spot. Goering roared angrily. "When I saw 'mosquitoes'. I was mad with anger, but I was very envious! The British made such a perfect wooden plane! ”

However, because the "Mosquito" was only in service during the Dunkirk evacuation, the number of RAF equipment was small. It did not fundamentally reverse the unfavorable situation in the air war. Therefore, air supremacy in the English Channel remained firmly in the hands of the Germans. But due to the increasing anti-aircraft fire of the British fleet in the straits. The Luftwaffe suffered its biggest losses since the outbreak of the war in Europe, shooting down more than 1,100 planes in just 10 days, five or six times faster than the historic air raid on London. Even though the Luftwaffe now has more than twice as many aircraft as it did on the eve of the historic Battle of London, such losses still distress Göring

In addition to the air force, the German Navy also lost more than a dozen "U" submarines and more torpedo boats in the battle in the English Channel, killing and missing more than 1,000 people.

In the end, the British miraculously withdrew about 250,000 Anglo-French troops from Dunkirk in ten days, preserving a large number of land forces, but the Germans claimed victory because the British paid a far greater price than the Germans

First of all, more than two-thirds of the national ships involved in the rescue were sunk, with a total displacement of no less than 2 million tons (but it is equivalent to a quarter's production capacity of the British shipbuilding industry, even taking into account the damage of the war, it will only take four or five months to rebuild, and the old naval power is indeed not built). The total number of dead and missing crew members is no less than 30,000

On the military side, the losses of the Royal Air Force were the largest, and the total number of downed aircraft was close to 2,000, and this was only the statistics of the first 5 days, because since the 6th day, the Royal Air Force has not dared to send planes to the skies over the English Channel to fight with the Germans, including the aircraft that need to be repaired, at that time, the total number of fighters in the United Kingdom, including the aircraft that need to be repaired, has been sharply reduced to less than 1,000, The loss of skilled pilots is even more distressing (most of the crashes and parachutes in sea and air battles cannot come back, and in the case of local air defense operations, more than half of the parachutes will not die, and the loss rate is at least twice as bad). If it continues to be consumed so quickly, the Royal Air Force will not even have the liliang to defend the homeland.

In the following year, the British even had to send most of the qualified pilots back to the aviation school as instructors, and let many undertrained new pilots fight with the Germans to ensure that after the enrollment increased significantly, the education standard of the aviation school would not decline significantly, so as to meet the needs of the future RAF greatly expanded. But in this way, the RAF had to suffer more casualties in a short period of time

Because the air force is unable to fight again, the British have long been proud of the Royal Navy - naturally became the main force of the air defense of the Strait, but although the proximity fuse and artillery sighting radar have played a huge role, and more than 80 air defense ships, thousands of anti-aircraft guns (including small-caliber anti-aircraft guns) composed of powerful anti-aircraft firepower is unprecedented in human history, but the aircraft as the active attack side still has a clear advantage, especially the dive bomber is the most difficult to shoot down among all kinds of bombers, And the bombshells carried by Stuka are definitely over for the British cruisers and destroyers in the Channel, and with so many ships rushing to the English Channel one after another, the air defense network was not so strong at the beginning, so the British Royal Navy still paid an extremely heavy price in this naval and air battle (to be continued......