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The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, lit. 'air battle for England') was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
15 September: In a single day, the Luftwaffe loses 60 aircraft over England during the Battle of Britain [21]: 68 14 November: In the Coventry Blitz Luftwaffe aircraft cause significant, and infamous, damage to Coventry, killing nearly 700 people and destroying Coventry Cathedral.
The Hardest Day [2] was a Second World War air battle fought on 18 August 1940 during the Battle of Britain between the German Luftwaffe and British Royal Air Force (RAF). On that day, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command.
On the day termed as the "Battle of Britain Day", the RAF claimed 185 German aircraft shot down. German recorded losses were 60. [16] 1940 Luftwaffe Royal Air Force Overall, the Germans claimed they shot down approximately 3,600 aircraft, nearly twice as many as the British lost.
The Battle of Britain cost the Luftwaffe 873 fighters and 1,014 bombers. The RAF lost 1,023 fighters. [38] Never again did the Luftwaffe operate in such numbers over Britain. General Werner Kreipe described it as a "strategic (Luftwaffe) failure" and a "turning point in the Second World War". The German Air Force was described as "bled almost ...
New simulations by York University researchers suggested that if they had started the campaign earlier, the RAF might have been defeated, paving the way for a German land invasion.
The Kanalkampf began the Battle of Britain; the Germans needed time to establish airfields along the French and Belgian coasts for the air assault on south-east England, link them to Luftwaffe communications systems and to replace the losses of May and June.
The Battle of Britain began on 10 July 1940, when the first Luftwaffe bomber fleets began attacking convoys and Royal Navy forces in English ports and the Channel. The results were positive and the Germans succeeded in forcing the British to abandon the channel convoy route and to redirect shipping to ports in north-eastern Britain.