What were the major turning points of the Battle of Britain?

Answer 1

In 1939, the British Royal Air Force was hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned by the German Luftwaffe and there were two major turning points The first was the old, slow planes that Britiain had at the start of 1939 were replaced by the Hurricane and Spitfire, which, although much fewer in numbers than the Luftwaffe had, were able to handle themselves against the front-line fighters the Germans had in the ME-109 and Focke-Wulf 190. This bought the british time to get more war production going. But arguably the real turning point was that the Germans suddenly adopted a tactic of bombing British airfields and putting them out of commission faster than the British could repair the runways and workshops. The British were slowly but surely being put out of operation on the ground, unable to take off or land, refuel or get repaired. Then, equally suddenly, and with the Royal Air Force almost in total disarray from this tactic, Hitler, as he so often did during the war, changed his strategy and went from putting the RAF out of action to bombing London night after night in what was to become known as the Blitz. Small comfort to those who lost their lives or their homes in the Blitz, but at least it gave the air force time to recover and rebuild and eventually pretty much wipe out the German Luftwaffe's air fields and bombers.

Answer 2

The Battle of Britain was one of the major World War II battles. The battle was waged in the skies over the English Channel and England's eastern and southern coast in 1940 and 1941. World War II had broken out in Europe, and Adolf Hitler was determined to subjugate England. The main combatants were the United Kingdom and Germany. The German plan was to unfold in several phases, but all efforts toward that end ultimately failed. The reasons for the failure are just as interesting as the battle itself.

Hope for American isolationism came to an end with the Battle of Britain. By the end of 1940, most Americans had come to realize that war was inevitable. By the beginning of July 1940, the British Royal Air Force (RAF), had built up its strength to 640 serviceable fighters, but the Luftwaffe (German air force) boasted 2,600 bombers and fighters.