A bit of trivia: Goering approved that drop.
Baader and Dowding went at it tooth and tong over interception strategies to the point that Dowding had him posted to North England to keep Baader out of his hair. Baader wanted massed fighter formations hitting German bombers, but Dowding was more wily in letting Goering think that the RAF was on its last legs by intentionally straggling his fighters up to intercept the Luftwaffe.
Goering took the bait, assuming that he was mopping up the last of the RAF fighter force, meanwhile his bombers were getting shot up coming and going with their crews bailing out over England into captivity. British pilots bailed out over their homeland and were quickly back in the cockpit.
Dowding even faked a bombed out RAF communications center, which German agents reported back to Berlin, as part of this deception plan which added to the implication that British air coordination was a shambles. Dwoding’s strategy was a brilliant use of stretched thin resources at an absolutely critical juncture in the war, one that kept Germany from invading England.