10 facts on the Battle of Britain !?

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Answer 1

Followed the June 1940 withdrawal of British forces at Dunkirk
Germans wanted to keep expanding their dominance west
July - October 1940
Germany led by Hitler
Britain led by Churchill
Occurred in the air (it was an on-going air battle)
St. Paul's Cathedral focal point
Bomb landed in St. Paul's but did not cause extensive damage
German air force called the Luftwaffe
German intent to defeat British Royal Air Force
German intent also to demoralize the British
Germans wanted to invade Britain
German airplanes mostly Bf 109E and Bf 110.
British airplanes mostly Hurricanes MK 1 and Spitfire
Germans attacked a number of cities including Bath and Coventry (where medieval Gothic Cathedral was destroyed)

Answer 2

It was Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding who commanded RAF Fighter Command, he also introduced, in part, the two critical fighters – the Hawker Hurricane (which was far more available and therefore more important) and the Supermarine Spitfire – of the Battle. He was also one of the men that rejected Churchill’s (and many others) demands to increase the numbers of aircraft stationed in France. There were controversies within the RAF about the fighting of the Battle of Britain, one side wanted to use the Big Wing tactic others (including Dowding and Keith Park, the commander of 11 Group that defended London and the South East) wanted to use squadrons as individual units arguing that the time and fuel taken to form up the Big Wing was wasteful and missed opportunities to defend London and the airfields. The Allied combatants in the Battle were not all British or even Commonwealth fliers, there were squadrons of Czech and Polish pilots and pilots from other nations formed into regular squadrons. The effects of the Battle were that the Luftwaffe lost so many aircraft and, more critically, experienced aircrew that they were never the same as the force that had been successful in Poland, Scandinavia and France. Radar was backed up by a command structure and the Royal Observer Corps (ROC), without the command structure, radar and ROC only showed that an attack was on the way Fighter Command was able to assimilate the information and pass the targets on to individual squadrons (the classic image of uniformed women at a large map table pushing markers around, while others telephone the squadrons). The German tactic of destroying seaports and coastal towns is actually later than the Battle of Britain (although they do overlap) it is generally taken as part of the Blitz. The German aims during the Battle of Britain was specifically to destroy the RAF and gain total air supremacy over southern Britain to permit an invasion force to land safely (the Luftwaffe also made feint attacks over the North Sea from Norway – which failed spectacularly as the bombers had no fighter cover).

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10 facts on the Battle of Britain !?
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