During the last 10 days of August, the German Air Force, fighters and bombers, had been working approximately at 30% of full, capacity. This could be increased by an additional 50% over a prolonged period, and could be more than doubled for a short period of about 48 hours. It was considered by the Air Staff that the German fighter situation would shortly become serious. It was believed that since the beginning of August sons 500 of their 1500 reserve fighters had been taken into use. It was probable that the Germans underestimated the toughness of British morale.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Belgium England France Germany Italy United Kingdom
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/87/77
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 81/87
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0087.077
- Keywords
- Invasion Threat Operation Sea Lion Assessing Enemy Strength Predicting Enemy Intentions German Strategy
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Ministry of Economic Warfare
- Pages
- 4
- Persons Discussed
- Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt Victor Cavendish-Bentinck C Edwards Thomas Elmhirst
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence British Domestic Security
