Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ]
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.
British anti-invasion preparations of World War II; GHQ Line; Taunton Stop Line; Coquet Stop Line; London Defence Positions - a Victorian approach to the same problem. Traffic and Environmental Zone, the "ring of steel" established in the City of London in the 1990s as a defence against terrorism.
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.}...
1 British anti-invasion preparations of World War II Toggle the table of contents Wikipedia : WikiProject Military history/Assessment/British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War
The Tyne Stop Line, which ran from the Rede Valley in Northumberland to Newcastle upon Tyne, formed part of the defences constructed to meet the threat of a Nazi invasion during World War II. Part of a network of such features, the Tyne Stop Line formed what would have been the principal defensive front for North East England against any attack ...