Talk:Big Wing

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This article was obviously rated before the standards were strengthened. This is also one of the most lop-sided non-neutral POV articles in the entire aviation project.--Reedmalloy (talk) 19:16, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's more like an opinion piece than an article. It has no inline citations. It's an embarrassment. Richard75 (talk) 23:36, 7 August 2020 (UTC) From everything I've read and heard on the subject (from both sides) I think the current article reflects precisely the political battle between 11 Group and 12 Group leadership, tactics, squabbles and power struggle. The problem is, it really doesn't fit quite so well with the historical narrative where "The Few" were all pulling together (in quite the way would have liked to believe). After the war, Adolf Galland was pretty matey with Barder, but stated Park / Dowding tactics were the ones that confused / disillusioned the Luftwaffe (while 12 Group were dicking about doing their own thing) rather than concentrating on simply protecting 11 Group airfields. George "Grumpy" Unwin even attested to 11 Group's airfield devastation. The ones 12 Group were supposed to have been protecting. It clearly sucked having to play second fiddle to the stretched 11 Group.[reply]