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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a World War 2 air campaign conducted by Germany against Britain in the summer of 1940. The objective was to gain air superiority over Britain in preparation for a possible invasion by sea.
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What was the wages of a World War 2 fighter pilot in the battle of Britain?
About 2 shilling a day with 3 shilling for each confirmed kill
What is the squadrom 303 well known for?
Squadron 303 is the name given to one of 16 Polish fighter squadrons that fought for the Royal Air Force duing WWII. They were well know for being the highest scoring RAFsquadron in the Battle of Britain.
How many different types of British planes were involved in the battle of Britain?
The two major British fighter planes were the Hurricane and the Spitfire. The primary type was fighter. Some aircraft were used for rescue of downed airmen at sea and for coastal patrols. These varied from seaplanes to two-engine bombers.
What new technology was used in the battle of Britain?
Radar was used to warn of approaching enemy planes.
What did Britain contribute to Canada?
Its language, spelling and pronunciation, most of its immigrant population, its government, and its head of state (the Queen).
Who ruled Britain during World War 1?
Herbert Asquith was the Prime Minister leading a mainly Liberal coalition from 1914 until 1915 when he formed a new coalition government which included Conservatives. He was replaced by David Lloyd George in 1916 who formed a new coalition which lasted until the end of the war. This was not supported by major Liberal figures and split the party. George V was King at the time.
Who helped Britain it the battle of Britain?
After Hitler's blitzkreig, where he quickly captured almost every nation in Europe, Britain stood alone. There were no other Allied forces left after the fall of France. Britain was able to hold off the Germans for a while until the United States entered the war. The United States helped bomb Germany. The British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed Germany during the day and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) by night, slowly reducing German cities to rubble.
the British empire and commonwealth of nations members of occupied countries that escaped and the Americans on the 3 Eagle Squadrons 71, 121, and 133
the USA never did anything No lend lease until 1941 after the UK and her friends were winning
i as a survivor of Hitlers Blitz on London would like to thank all the members of the Eagle Squadrons who came to our aid from the start and Risked Imprisonment by the US government
What is the main thing that happened during the battle of Britain?
the battle of Britain started on the 10th July 1940 and ended on the 31st October. it was an air battle between Britain and Nazi Germany, Germany where planning to destroy Britain's air force and then invade by sea. there plan failed and The Royal Air Force stayed strong, so an intimidated Hitler turned his attention eastwards. air combat was seen as the key for the British win and was marked as Hitler's first defeat.
Where did the battle of Britain occur?
The term Battle of Britain is usually used to mean the fight between the German Air Force (Luftwaffe - literally Air Weapon) and the Royal Air Force or RAF.
The battle was an attempt to prepare Britain for an invasion by the German army by eliminating the RAF as a factor. The German army and Navy maintained that they could not cross the English Channel and attack if the RAF was still able to destroy the ships and barges carrying troops.
The Luftwaffe launched a series of attacks designed to force the RAF to defend Britain and thus allow the destruction of the RAF. Through skillful use of the limited number of planes, the RAF was able to avoid destruction and seriously damage the Luftwaffe in the process.
The battle involved many painful choices for the British. For example, Churchill and the RAF leaders knew that Coventry was going to be attacked one night, but had to do nothing special so they wouldn't give away the fact that they could read German coded messages. Major parts of Coventry were bombed and destroyed to save the secret.
Eventually the RAF caused so much damage to the Luftwaffe that the attacks were curtailed and the invasion was cancelled. In recounting the results of the battle, Winston Churchill spoke about the fighter pilots of the RAF when he said..."Never have so many owed so much to so few."
To Summarize . . .The Battle of Britain was fought in the skies over England and specifically London as the German air force tried to destroy the British air force and demoralize the civilians.How many Allied aircraft did the Regia Aeronautica destroy in the Battle of Britain?
The Corpo Aereo Italiano is credited by most sources as many as 15,but both the German as well as Italian aviators who operated R.A. craft under Luftwaffe command downed or damanged over a couple of hundred more,and of course it is know to everyone only all too well,killed or wounded many Allied Airmen and achieved some very horrific damnage to both property and military fascilities in both cost and destruction with the targets they succeeded in hitting.-Source:In the Skies over Europe Air Forces Allied to the Luftwaffe by Hans Werner Neulen
Why did the Battle of Britain happen?
Hitler wanted to knock Britain out of the war as soon as possible so he could commit his forces to the East. Hitler really didn't care much for France or Britain, his focus was on conquering land in the East for his "Lebensraum".
Was the Battle of Britain an RAF victory or a Luftwaffe failure?
If you want one answer (although history and life are never that simple) probably a failure by the Luftwaffe if you judge failure by the inability of one side to achieve it's objective. The Luftwaffe failed to 1) destroy the air defenses of Britain so it could launch and invasion (Operation Sea Lion) and 2) failed to bomb Britain into surrender or an armistice. The RAF on the other hand established an effective fighter force (of Spitfires and Hurricanes) efficiently controlled by the advanced (for it's time) radar (RDF) system. Their success in preventing the Luftwaffe achieving its objectives would surely mean they were victorious?
Hitler 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 a) 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 German's lack of reliable intelligence in underestimating the capacity of the British to replace losses led them to shift the attack from the airfields to the industrial targets 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.
Despite the large numerical superiority the high rate of loss (5 German aircrew for every RAF fighter pilot at the height of the battle) was too much for the Luftwaffe to sustain. So the Luftwaffe failed in its objectives and invasion never came but were the RAF victorious? Well they defeated the Luftwaffe objectives but not the Luftwaffe completely which recovered to its former strength and aided the Germans in victories against the allies in North Africa and Greece. The experience lost over the channel and Britain however could not be replaced and the Luftwaffe was "not the force it had once been". The battle also 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 Nazi's its significance was huge. So 1-0 to the RAF then (1940) and that great quote "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
What was Britain's rise to fascism like?
== == Britain never had a fascist government nor even a major fascist movement.
Why Britain finally decided against intervention on behalf of the confederacy?
Because, after the release of the Emancipation Proclamation, the British public opinion would not have tolerated neither a recognizing of a State which owned slaves nor a military support in its favour.
Indeed the last blow, which finally led Great Britain Government to give up any intention related to, was given by Lee's decisive defeat at Gettysburg, which demonstrated that the Confederacy was unable to beat the Union.
How would the world be different if the battle of Britain never existed?
difficult to answer, who knows what the Germans would have done. the battle of Britain in may 1940 over kent south east England, was a particularly viscous dogfight in which the RAF were literally fighting for their and Britain's lives. if the RAF hadnt destroyed the luftwaffe, then Germany without doubt would have had an easier time of invading England. this defeat totally demoralised the Germans and they realised that the RAF ruled the skies.
4 Operation Barbarossa affected the Battle of Britain?
Answer this question…Operation Barbarossa was the next project of the German forces after they failed to win the Battle of Britain.
What defended its skies for months against repeated bombing attacks?
Britain, or more precisely the Royal Air Force, represented by "the Few" defended their skies steadfastly and ferociously for almost the entire summer of 1940. They finally turned back Hitler's forces to the point that no invasion of Britain was possible, even from the world's most powerful military at that time.
What weapons were use in the battle of Britain?
The Battle of Britain was predominately fought between the British RAF and the German Luftwaffe assisted by the Italian Air Force.
Other main weapons in the battle were Chain-Home Radar Network, British Observer Corps and British Anti-Aircraft Artillary.
The RAF
The two mainstay fighters for the RAF were
- Hawker Hurricane - Mk1
- Supermarine Spitfire - Mk1 and Mk2.
Also used by the RAF were.
- Bristol Blenheim - Mk1f. Night Fighter variant of Mk1.
- Bristol Beaufighter - Mk1
- Boulton Paul Defiant - Mk1
- Gloster Gladiator
The Luftwaffe
For the Germans this was a battle for bombers. The fighters were there mostly to protect the bombers and maybe wining air superiority from British Fighter Command.
German Bombers
- Dornier Do17 - Varients Do17-M, Do17-P, Do17-Z2 & Do17-Z-3
- Dornier Do18 - Do18-D1
- Heinkel He111 - He111-H2, He111-H3, He111-H4 & He111-P1
- Junkers Ju87 Stuka - Ju87-B1 & Ju87-B2
- Junkers Ju88 - Ju88-A1 & Ju88-42
Italian Bombers
- Fiat BR20M Cicogna
German Fighters
- Messerschmit Bf109 - Bf109-E1, Bf109-E1B, Bf109-E3, Bf109-E4, Bf109-E4B, Bf109-E4N, Bf109-E7, Bf109-E7N & Bf109-F1
- Messerschmit Bf110 - Bf110-C4, Bf110-C4B & Bf110-C5
Italian Fighters
- Fiat CR.42 Falco
- Fiat G.50 Freccia
Other German Planes
- Breguet 521 Bizerte- Reconnaissance (French built)
- Focke-Wulf Fw200-C3 - Reconnaissance and Anti-Shipping Bomber.
- Heinkel He59-C2 - Torpedo Bomber.
In the Battle of Britain, it was all air vs. air. The British RAF against the Nazi's Luftwaffe. In the desperate battle the was the Battle of Britain, hundreds of RAF pilots died defending it, but German losses were much higher. RAF suffered hundreds. The Luftwaffe suffered thousands. That's impressive no matter who you ask.
What battles took place in Italy to capture a monestary?
The only one of which I am aware was the battle for Monte Cassino in, I think, the Spring of 1944. When the Allies advanced north, they came against the strong defenses called the GUSTAV Line, which set up across the entrance of the Liri Valley and included the mountains on each side. The prominant mountain included the Monestary at Cassino and Castel Hill. The town of Cassino was at the base of this mountain. For almost 5 months the Allies tried to break through this German defensive position. The campaign is broken down into 3 attacks. The first attack began with the assault across the Gargilano and Rappido Rivers on 22 Jan 1944. The final breakthrough began with the spring assault on 11 May 1944, and resulted in the relief of Anzio and the liberation of Rome on 4 June.
In Britain in 1750 what places was there to visit?
The Tower of London was present in Britain by 1750, and one could visit it, despite its association with imprisonment. You could also visit Canterbury Cathedral.
What buildings were destroyed in the battle of Britain?
What was it like for Great Britain after the Battle?
