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The miracle that saved England
In an article about the Battle of England, George Patton affirms that only a miracle would save England, which was the only country to stand up on its own against the powerful German war machine before the European continent almost totally dominated.
When the Battle began, the British nation counted on only 347 fighter planes Hawker Hurricane, 199 Supermarine Spitfire, 69 night fighter planes Bristol Blenheim and 25 Boulton Paul Defiant, half of them were in the airports around the south the island. The Luftwaffe had 2.800 aircrafts, being 1.300 bombers Heinkel He-111, Junkers Ju 88A and Dornier Do-17; 280 diving-bombers Junkers Ju-87 Stukas, 790 fighter planes; Messerschmitt Bf-109, 260 heavy fighter planes Messerschmitt Bf-110 and 170 reconnaissance aircrafts of different types.
The German pilots, highly motivated by the successive victories, were looking forward to destroying RAF – the Royal Air Force. The German tactics were, says Patton, correct: firstly, destroy RAF and then start the operation Sea Lion, with the invasion and the conquest of England. Hitler knew then that the operation would fail without destroying RAF in the first place.
Operating with small groups and well defined targets, bridges, headquarters, airports and industries, the Luftwaffe started the campaign. Given such a scenario, the Marshal of the Air Sir Hugh Dowding waited for a miracle to happen, a miracle that, actually, happened on 24th August 1940, although miracles do not exist, as we know.
In fact, what occurred was a mistake – a fatal mistake in the words of Patton. Because of the retaliation determined by Winston Churchill, who ordered the bombing over Berlin, Hitler decided to change his strategy and, instead of attacking bridges, airports and industries, Germany started bombing London, which allowed the recovery of airports, radar stations and industries and, thus, the increase of aircrafts production and the training of new pilots.
Everybody knows the result: the Battle of England was won by the Englishmen, fact that took Winston Churchill, after the German defeat in England’s skies, to proffer the following famous phrase: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”.
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Everything stated above solely aimed to remind us the value of that one who became notable for such a great victory, the Marshal of the Air Sir Hugh Dowding, considered the number one Spiritist of England, who requested the recognition of Spiritism as a religion to the Parliament of that country in 30/7/1952.
Marshal Dowding, Spiritist and researcher of the mediumistic phenomena, in order to verify the operations’ weaknesses, used to communicate with pilots who died in the combats during the sessions he organized, having his wife, Estelle Roberts, who disincarnated in 1971, as one of the mediums. His prestige after such an exceptional victory gave him the credentials to make his petition be accepted by English Parliament half a century ago, a fact that we must applaud.
About the Battle of England, visit http://www.clubedosgenerais.org/portal/modules.php?name=Conteudo&pid=276.
About Dowding and Spiritism, visit http://jomalvarenga.sites.uol.com.br/julho2005/acont9.htm
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