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the battle of britain - 12 August to 30 September 1940
this was fought in air, when Goering's Luftwaffe(type of plane) tried to destroy the Royal Air Force as a preliminary invasion of Britain. the Germans bombed harbors, radar stations, aerodromes and munition factories; in September they began to bomb London in retaliation, they claimed, for a raid on Berlin. The RAF inflicted heavy losses on the Luftwaffe(1389 German planes were lost against 792 British); when it became clear that British air power was far from being destroyed, Hitler called off invasion. Reasons for the British success was;
their chain of new radar stations gave plenty of warning of approaching German attackers
the German bombers were poorly armed.
the switch to bombing London was a mistake because it relieved pressure on the air fields at the critical moment
the Battle Of Britain was probably the first major turning point of the war for the first time the Germans had been checked, demonstrating that they were not invincible. Britain was able to remain in the struggle, thus facing Hitler with the fatal situation of the war on two fronts
As Churchill remarked when he paid tribute to the British fighter pilots, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed to so few."
