Why the battle of Britain was important?

Answer 1

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There is much speculation on what might have happened had Hitler achieved his objective of gaining air superiority over the south of Britain, ranging from an invasion and occupation by the Germans to a non-aggression pact between Britain and Germany, which would have had to include restrictions on the use of the Royal Navy and other British forces and on what foreign forces could be stationed on British soil.

It is much clearer what could not have happened had Hitler succeeded in suppressing British air defences. Britain could not have been used as a base for Allied forces to invade Europe so Europe would have come entirely under the control of the Nazis and/or the Soviets.

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After the fall of France most countries felt the war was over. The British seemed surrounded and cornered, with no real allies. The Soviets were selling raw materials to the Nazi war effort, the US refused to fight, Hitler seemed to many to have won. An era of darkness was expected to fall upon the human race.

The Spanish, French, Turkish and US Generals were ready to cut a deal with Hitler after the defeat and surrender of the British airforce, however, that did not happen.

The UK air force may have been outnumbered 3 to 1 but the British had superior radar, intelligence, tactics, planes and pilots. This not only saved the UK but the world.

If Britain had lost the whole of Europe, Asia, Africa, the Arab world and inevitably the Americas would be under Nazi rule. The light of mankind would indeed have been extinguished.

After the British victory, with courageous help from other allies such as Czech, Polish, NZ pilots, Hitler was heart broken. He said the defeat of the German airforce was the main reason for his defeat, he felt his whole dream of world domination had gone.

In a fit of anger and bewilderment he invaded his closest allie the Soviet Union. Not one German general agreed with this as it seemed unimportant to the Nazi war effort. The defeat at the BOB had repercussions as the Japanese in a fit of similar crazed anger attacked the USA a country over twice the size of them, again for no reason.

The BOB was not only the key turning point in WWII but also the most important battle in the history of warfare. No battle before or since held so much importance.

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The Battle of Britain was important because Hitler's Luftwaffe (Air Force) was preparing an invasion of Britain. If Germany could gain control of the skies than all that stopped them was Britain's Navy. But with Germany's U-boats it wouldn't be all that difficult to one by one destroy Britain's navy. Germany bombed English airfields and cities for months on end. Britain's RAF fought back with the use of RADAR and new Spitfire planes. But Germany could not defeat Britain's RAF and were forced to end the attack.

It also showed that Britain was going to keep on fighting instead of giving in to Germany. It was the first loss that Germany suffered after a string of magnificent victories that made them seem invincible. Britain's victory meant that Germany could not launch Sealion, the invasion of Britain. Although the invasion was a dubious proposition even with control of the air.

Gorings mismanagement of the Luftwaffe cost Germany aircraft that during war couldn't and wouldn't be able to be replaced. Imagine what possible contributions that the Luftwaffe could have made on the Russian Front.

Had they lost the battle, they likely would have lost the war, either through being starved into submission, being invaded, or a combination of the two.

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The battle of Britain only decided whether the Germans would try to invade Britain - not whether the invasion would be a success. Even with air superiority it was highly unlikely the German air force and navy would have been able to prevent the British navy from destroying the German invasion fleet. The British navy outnumbered the Germans by roughly 5:1 in most types of warship, and the German air force was not properly equipped to sink small fast moving warships in open water: particularly destroyer-sized ships. The consequences of this for anyone onboard the improvised invasion barges would probably have been very unpleasant (once the small escort force of their own warships had been sunk by the British). However a British naval victory might well have been counter productive for them in the long run, as a spectacular military defeat for the Germans would undoubtedly have focused the very unforgiving Adolf Hitler on destroying Britain rather than turning his attention to the Russians - which is what really saved Britain in the long run.

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The Battle of Britain is important because it was one of the pivotal points of the war, much like Stalingrad or Midway, it effectively halted Hitlers advance in the west and denied Hitler total victory in Europe, forcing him into a dilemma which he hoped he would never have to encounter again, a war on 2 fronts, the result of the battle of Britain ensured that democracy survived and was preserved in Europe, and Britain became a beacon to all those who detested and wished to fight against Nazism. Polish, French, Belgian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian and Czech forces in exile all set up in Britain and took part in the invasion of Europe. Moreover Britain became a massive floating base for British, American, Canadian and Australian troops preparing for D-day. Even though there is much debate today over whether Germany could have launched an invasion at all even if the RAF was destroyed, it was an important battle, the Germans were not invincible, the stalwart resistance shown by Britain convinced the United states to send food, weapons, supplies, tanks, ships and all manner of consumables to Britain, also the invasion of Europe would be launched from the south coast of England, culminating in a gigantic pincer move, with the American/Canadian/British forces in the west and the Soviet forces in the east, this pincer move would crush Germany in 1945.

Because if the British air force had not been able to overcome the German attacks, Germany might have gone on to mount an invasion of Britain, having established air superiority. The British Navy was superior to the German, but without air cover it would have been very vulnerable. The US was neutral and not in a position to help much anyway, being a long way off and not geared up for war. If Britain had been occupied by Germany, the US would never have been able to mount an invasion of Europe.

Answer 2

In 1940, Nazi Germany had an invasion fleet ready to subjugate Britain to complete their occupation of Europe. This was known as operation Sealion. The only thing that stood in their way was the Royal Air Force, so the plan was to bomb all the airfields that were protecting London so that the defending fighters would be unable to take off. Wave after wave of bombers were sent over from occupied France to destroy the airfields and British fighters were sent up to shoot them down. Even though the bombers had fighter escorts, the Royal Air Force was able to shoot down large numbers of bombers. Eventually the German High Command decided that the losses were so high that they weren't prepared to continue. What they didn't know at the time was that the Royal Air Force was down to an absolute minimum of fighter aircraft and if they (the Germans) had continued the fight, they would probably have won and Britain would have been overrun by Nazi Germany and the war in Europe would have had a very different end. The battle raged over Southern England from June until September 1941. Winston Churchill said of the defending pilots who suffered heavy losses: "Never in the field of human conflict, has so much been owed by so many to so few" Those pilots are still referred to in the UK as 'The Few'. If you ever get the opportunity to see the film 'Battle of Britain' you will find that it is historically accurate and gives huge amounts of information about the battle.