The Battle of Britain
Operation Sea Lion and Beginning of the Air War
- Hitler's plan to invade great britain
- needed control of the air before this would be possible
- Luftwaffe begins bombing aircraft factories, hangars, runways, radar, convoys
- British come within days of not being able to sustain a defence
- this was a supposed attack (none of this happens) just an attack proposal
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The RAF Bombs Berlin; Hitler Bombs London
- Hitler had promised this would never happen to germany
- He changed strategy and bombs London for 76 nights straight
- Allows the RAF to recover
Dogfights and the British Determnination
- Led by Winston Churchill
- St Paul's Cathedral a sign of the resistance
- Winston Churchill: Elected as British Prime minister
- Famous for his speeches during world war two
- He was Knighted
- Perhaps one of the best historian of the 20th century