No prob, Webb. I've learnt more in these pages in 18 months than I did the previous 30 years..........lol

The 'official London Blitz' went from Sepy 7th 1940 to May 11th 1941. Why I don't know, but the web site claims that London was bombed 'almost' every night for that 8 months, and thereafter also.

Anyway, in answer to your question, I don't have exact figures, but I'm sure that the 8th Airforce and Bomber Command (with their huge 4 engine jobs) would have had a far greater capacity to drop the huge loads required for a firestorm to result.
The German bombers were, almost without exception, twin engine, and could only carry relatively small loads, compared to the Lanc and B17. I don't think they had the numbers, even in the earlier years, that the combined US and RAF  had, once they were established. 

Which is what puzzles me when people say, "Hitler was evil but smart."  In my little opinion, he was nothing more than a complex man who was in the right place in the right time, and above all, a pitiful strategist.

After a quick punt round I'm surprised at the lack of information on the web concerning the London Blitz. I'm sure my late father, as a member of the Auxiliary Fire Service throughout WWII, would have different views if he were still alive. I did find this which gives some idea of how serious it really was.
http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/meltingpot/oxford/330/arp/arp4.html
Quote:


The area known as the City of London was wiped out in a single raid on 28/29th December 1940. I've not heard it described as a firestorm but this area with its narrow streets & old buildings was a perfect environment for this phenomenon. There's no doubt that the Luftwaffe had the capacity to start one as had been proven earlier in Rotterdam. I don't think the intention would have been to create a firestorm as such, simply to flatten the complete area.

Quote:


Please remember that London is not Britain. Many other towns & cities were bombed night after night. The medieval city of Coventry (the British equivalent of Dresden) was virtually destroyed in a single raid on 14 November 1940.
Quote:

http://www.cwn.org.uk/heritage/blitz/

The gutted ruins of the ancient Coventry Cathedral still stand proudly today as a memorial to the people of the city. My daughter's graduation ceremony was held there.

I think it was proved then & during the subsequent bombing of Germany that bombing alone does not destroy the morale of the civil population as had once been thought. It often has the reverse effect & increases hatred & resolve. While the concentrated Blitz was abandoned during 1941, smaller isolated raids continued throughout the war, supplemented in later years by the V1 doodlebugs & the V2 rockets.

Quote:


I've been to london a few times and the victorian houses there are just as prone to fire as anyother home.

England would not have capitulated intill we were completely over run. Meaning they would have to have landed and taken complete control over England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Hitlers invasion of Russian was supposed to last 6 weeks. When Hitler launched Barbarossa, England was in no shape to offer any sort of threat against Germany. Also its an interesting point that if Barbarossa was launched on schedual (it was over 2 months late) then they would have taken Moscow and defeated Russia well before the winter came because as you know, Hitler was right on the outskirts of Moscow when everything literally froze. Speculations...

Operation Barbarossa "should have" taken 6 weeks.  The Russians didn't cooperate.  The Russian winter defeated Hitler just as it defeated Napoleon - the Russians knew it would.

Stalingrad "should have" taken a couple of weeks.  It lasted more than 6 months and 2 million (yes, million) dead.  Stalin would not allow the city with his name to be taken and Hitler was equally determined to take it.

Hitler could never defeat Russia and I don't think he ever planned to.  He claimed that he just wanted "lebensrum", living room,  a few thousand miles east.  How many thousands of miles we will never know.  He was so violently anti-Communist that he probably would not have been satisfied until Germany's eastern borders reached Japan's western borders.  Woe to Japan at that time.

As Webb says, the Russians didn't have a copy of Hitler's script.............

The casualties on the Eastern front were nothing short of 'Horrific".

I've seen a number of Doco's on the subject, and I have a figure of something like 1,000,000 casualties in the first two weeks of the attack.
I know that the Germans took 2,000,000 Russian prisoners in the first 3 weeks. It's unbelievable.

(Many of these Russians were executed or spent years in Labour camps when they went back to Russia, for being 'cowards' by being captured. Once again, unbelievable. How do these mongrel bastards ever get into power, to be able to effect such terrible policies?  )

It's no wonder the Eastern War was so much "crueler' and more 'vicious' than that in the West. You really can't blame the Russians for being so rotten to the Germans during the last months. They must have seen so many terrible things. 

Will is right.  I am wrong.  A public wrong deserves a public apology and I apologize.

I have listened to several of Winston Churchill's speeches (esp. We will fight them on the beaches) and researched the Nazi plan for the conquest of Britain.

Nothing short of an armed invasion and military defeat of Britain on the ground would have caused its defeat.  The air battle was to be a prelude to the sea/ground invasion which, when it failed, signalled the end of the ground invasion plans.

The British would indeed have "fought them on the beaches".