“Our losses…have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.”

—  Karl Dönitz

May 24, 1943, quoted in "A Time for Courage: The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945" - Page 449 - by John Terraine - History - 1985.

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