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A British soldier on a beach in Southern England, 7 October 1940. Detail from a pillbox embrasure.. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.
Two Men in a Trench II: Uncovering the Secrets of British Battlefields. Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0-7181-4594-1. Ruddy, Austin (2003). British Anti-Invasion Defences 1940–1945. Historic Military Press. ISBN 1-901313-20-4. White, John Baker (1955). The Big Lie. Evans Brothers. Wills, Henry (1985). Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences. Leo Cooper.
About 28,000 pillboxes and other hardened field fortifications were constructed in Britain in 1940 as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. About 6,500 of these structures still survive. [12]
Operation Banquet was a British Second World War plan to use every available aircraft against a German invasion in 1940 or 1941. After the Fall of France in June 1940, the British Government made urgent anti-invasion preparations as the Royal Air Force (RAF) engaged the German Luftwaffe in a struggle for air superiority in the Battle of Britain.
On the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy these haunting pictures show how lives were changed forever by the invasion.From reconnaissance images taken by RAF crews before and ...
British anti-invasion preparations of 1803–05 were the military and civilian responses in the United Kingdom to Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom. They included mobilization of the population on a scale not previously attempted in Britain, with a combined military force of over 615,000 in December 1803. [ 1 ]
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:07, 31 January 2013: 769 × 800 (67 KB): Fæ {{Information |description = {{en|''Invasion Build-up- Preparations For the D-day Landings, UK, 1944''<br/> Women of the ATS check vehicle in an Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, somewhere in Britain, in preparation for the opening of the Second Front.}...