How did Britain keep Germany from invading England?

Answer 1

The reason that Germany did not invade England during World War II is that Hitler could not decide upon an invasion plan. Although he was a brilliant strategist in land campaigns, he could not come up with an invasion plan that he felt comfortable with. The German military was quite capable of taking over England in 1940 right after the fall of Dunkirk, but Hitler would not give the go ahead. Instead, he agreed to let Goering try to bomb England into submission.

Answer 2

Britain is an Island nation with a strong Navy. Answer - The Battle of Britain 1940 Germany believed that in order to invade Britain it needed control of the skies to nullify the British Navy which was far stronger than its German equivalent and ensure the crossing was protected from air attack. So it set out to destroy the RAF. Hitler had ordered:- Since England, despite its militarily hopeless situation, still has not shown any signs of being prepared to negotiate, I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England and, if necessary, carry it out. The objective of this operation is to eliminate the English home country as a base for the continuation of the war against Germany... and also: The English air force must have been beaten down to such an extent morally and in actual fact that it can no longer muster any power of attack worth mentioning against the German crossing. The Luftwaffe strategy had been to destroy the RAF fighter command in the South East within 4 days and then move onto destroying the military installations and the aircraft industry in the rest of the country within 4 weeks. Lack of intelligence on the success rate and a lack of focus on pursuing parts of the strategy combined with a much higher manufacturing capacity to replace losses enabled the RAF to survive. The British control systems which achieved 80% interception rates and the demand for protection from the bombers hindered some of the more successful Luftwaffe strategies in the air. The Germans while initially attacking the radar stations failed to follow up or attack the infrastructure supporting them and a lack of understanding that they were used not just for early warning but also control led to the attacks being abandoned. At one point the RAF believed they were within weeks having to withdraw and of running out aircraft, in fact it was more the lack of trained pilots that would have caused problems. The Germans' lack of reliable intelligence in estimating the capacity of the British to replace losses led them to shift the attack from the airfields to the industrial targets (the blitz on London etc) believing they had achieved success just as the RAF had its backs against the wall. Eventually it became apparent the Luftwaffe had exaggerated its success against the RAF and the invasion was postponed several times, the attack switched to bombing cities and was later stopped as the German focus switched to Russia and the invasion was formally abandoned. The battle proved the Germans were not invincible and convinced the Americans that Britain would survive and should be supported. Given the survival of Britain led to it being used as a base with which to liberate Europe from the Nazis its significance was huge. So 1-0 to the RAF then and that great quote by Winston Churchill "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".

Answer 3

Britain had a strong navy so because it was an island Germany would need naval superiority over Britain