Dartmouth Regatta features a Battle of Britain memorial air display – but how did the Allies win the Battle?

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Answer 1

Well if I remember correctly, the Nazis had the bigger air force, but we had the advantage of radar which allowed the RAF to send their fighters to the enemy with a greater degree of accuracy. The Nazis began by attacking the air strips and radar stations, which would have crippled the RAF in no time. But Hitler switched the attack to the cities after Berlin was bombed and the air strips and radar stations were repaired. Much credit has been laid at the door of the pilots who flew both the Spitfire and Hurricane fighters and these machines helped to outfly and eventually destroy many of the Luftwaffe attacks but not without an horrendous price was paid by ordinary civilians in the cities and the brave pilots themselves. There was not going to be an invasion of Britain by the Nazis unless they had total control over our air space and this was what the RAF denied them. Hitler then decided to attack the Soviet Union and the threat of the invasion of Britain was over.

Answer 2

The allies didn't win the Battle of Britain.
Britain and the British Empire stood alone in 1940 when the battle took place, the Soviet Union was not an ally until June 1941 and America joined in December 1941, so it was nothing to do with them.
The main aircraft on the British side were the Spitfire and Hurricane which repelled the Luftwaffe sufficiently to make Hitler and Goering switch their bombing attacks from the airfields
to the cities thus giving the R.A.F. time to repair their losses.

Answer 3

History Lesson: WW2. 1939 - 1945.

Following fall of France in May 1940 the German Army occupied the whole of France. Adolph Hitler thought that Britain would concede and allow him free reign throughout Europe. Hitler's thoughts proved wrong, and he attacked Britain by air - initially attacking figher airfields but latterly switching his attacks on London and other industrialised cities and towns.

Battle of Britain June - September 1940

The RAF successfully defended Britain against this air armada by destroying more bombers and fighters than could be afforded by the Luftwaffe (German Airforce) and forced Hitler to call off the proposed invasion of Britain. Battle of Britain Day - 15th September 1940 and celebrated every year since.

Answer 4

The allies did not win the battle of Britain-Hitler stopped sending his fighter planes. Ours were refuelled and sent up again and again non stop from Biggin Hill, the Thong, Rochester, Hendon etc. The pilots were totally knackered and if Hitler had continued the outcome could have been a whole lot different.

Answer 5

The Allies did not win the battle. The British did.

Answer 6

They won by a 'miracle'.... on 24 August, by accident, some Luftwaffe bombers had dropped their bombs on London. The next few nights, the RAF replied by bombing Berlin. Hitler was angry. On 2 September he ordered his bombers to attack London. On 7 September the Nazi bombing raid was so huge that a false alarm went round the south-east of England: code-word ‘Cromwell’ – invasion imminent.

RAF Command was saved, after nearly being brought to its knees

Answer 7

By bombing Berlin