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Mr Merry
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..and not used in the BoB for two reasons, neither of which appear in the ‘established’ history. One, horrible fat prop blades kept its operational ceiling below what Dowding thought critical to take on the 109 and two, Dowding was instead keeping his few delivered Whirlwinds up North in reserve as the only ‘tank buster’ we had in the event of an invasion.

I get the logic, but a pity it wasn’t tried against bomber formations.