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The Battle of Britain fought was over Britain between the 10th July and 31st October 1940. This was Hitler's tactic to invade Britain however he underestimated the RAF and was defeated. Basically in two words, the BoB forced Germany to change tactics if they wanted to conquer Britain, his new strategy was to bomb major cities such as London, Plymouth, Liverpool, Southampton etc... in order to disrupt production, decrease morale and faith in the government and to destroy infrastructure.

A number of interesting novels have been written on that topic, including "SS-GB" by Len Deighton, and "The Man In The High Castle" by Philip K. Dick. Of course, we can only speculate about this alternate version of history. There is no way to be certain of what the world would be like under those circumstances.

498 royal air force pilots died in the battle of Britain

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The USA entered WW2 and if they hadn't everyone in Europe may have been speaking German now. By the USA entering WW2 they enabled the Russians to push Hitler into a Bunker in Berlin where he killed himself. Europe had been trying to defeat Hitler and the Nazi's since September 1939. The USA came into the war in December 1941 and by doing so considerable shortened the war and it is probably unlikely that Britain and the rest of Europe could have done it on their own .

It is completely unfair not to mention the Russians too. By occupying many of Hitlers forces on the Eastern Front, the Russians incredible fighting and huge losses, enabled the Americans and the allies including the British, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, Free French and others to land on D-Day with less losses than they would have otherwise had.

However, it is fair to say, that others helped save the UK in WW2.

We fought two long and hard wars with Germany which involved many battles. In World War I were the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Jutland. In World War two were the Battles of El Alamein, the Battle of Britain, the Battle for the Rhine, the Battle of the River Plate Plenty to choose from. You were possibly thinking of the 1940 air battle called the Battle of Britain.

According to First World War.com, Britannica Online Encyclopedia and

"The First World War" by John Keegan

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Air campaign.
An Air battle. Germany's Air Force tried to bomb England's air bases and cities in preparation of an invasion. Germany also launched their new wapon called the V2 rocket. It demolished the city of London

The Battle of Britain was fought between Britain and Germany. It was an aerial battle fought by the British RAF and the German Luftwaffe. Though out-planed, out-trained, and out- numbered, the RAF managed to win the Battle of Britain using radar and planes that were faster and had maneuverable than the Luftwaffe.

Unless the Germans had absolute air superiority there was no way they could attempt the invasion of Britain. The Battle of Britain denied them this, therefore Britain remained in the war, eventually leading to victory in Europe.

The United States completed a swap of bases for old destroyers called the Lend-Lease act. The United States, as a neutral country, was not supposed to sell warships to Britain. Instead of selling, they loaned about 50 older destroyers to Britain for the duration of the war in exchange for the rights to use a number of British bases around the world.

In the final months of 1941, the United States began selling extremely large quantities of war-related materials to Britain on credit. The materials were protected by American destroyers leading convoys.

The United States agreed to protect certain British interests in the Western Hemisphere.

It is very difficult to bomb a country while being shot at by spitfires, they needed to get rid of the spitfires and the RAF air defenses before they could bomb anything because while they were concentrating on bombing they would be killed by the RAF and other defenses.

You wouldn't attack someone who could kill you in the action. You take away their main weapons and defenses before attacking.

Germany needed to gain air superiority over the English channel so that their invasion force could land in England without the Royal Navy interfearing.

Because the Luftwaffe failed to destroy the RAF, Hitler was unable to attack England when the British army was at its weakest.

This meant that he couldn't possibly defeat England in a conventional fight and would have to rely on either starving out the British nation or convincing them to give up by bombing them into submission at home and attacking their forces overseas.

Once Soviet Russia and America entered the war, Britain was a vital link in getting supplies to Russia and a vital base for the build up of forces to invade mainland Europe.

If Britain had been knocked out of the war in 1940, Hitler would have been free to concentrate all his forces against Russia a year later.

The Battle of Britain occured during World War II not World War I.

Germany and Scotland, however there was a squadron of expatriate Polish pilots in Scotlands Air Force

Britians are wimps though.

Germany and Britain

The Luftwaffe was diverted to Russia in the summer of 1941. (Barbarossa) Initially the Germans were winning the battle, had they carried on attacking the sector airfields instead of bombing, principally, London, it is possible that Fighter Commands' main force would have needed to be diverted further north, had this happened then the British might not have been able to deny the Luftwaffe airspace in the effective way that they did. Having said all this the English Channel still appears to be an insurmountable obstacle for the Wehrmacht to cross. The answer to the question is that the Luftwaffe was losing the fight.

The reference to 'soldiers' in the question suggests that this was a land battle. However, the Battle of Britain (July-October, 1940) was fought entirely in the skies over southern England. The German Luftwaffe (air force) tried to secure air superiority for the planned invasion. The main target was the RAF air bases in England. By mid September 1940 the attempt to destroy the RAF had failed and a new battle - the 'Blitz' - had begun. (It's standard practice to draw a distinction between the two). In the Battle of Britain the actual number of airmen involved was very small. The RAF lost 498 men dead. From 7 September 1940 onwards the Luftwaffe deliberately targeted the civilian population and the number of dead (mainly civilians) rose very sharply. Joncey

Adolf Hitler, Germany

Winston Churchill,Britain

Because the Britains had radar that could help the Britains know when the Germans where coming. Secondly, Britain is far away from the europe land mass, and had the sea in between making hard for the Germans to get across.

What happened was that the Luftwaffe shifted the majority of their bombing attacks from the cities of Britain to concentrate on the RAF airfields of southern England. The aim was to destroy Fighter Command who were than based at a few large airfields near the French coast. Fighter Command replied by spreading aircraft out to numerous 'satellite' airstrips, often of grass. Tactics also changed to be more effective against large bomber groups.

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A major contribution was the fact that the German planes had to travel large distances to get to England, and again to get back to their home bases. This cut down on the amount of time they could spend in the air over England. This restraint did not apply to the English planes.

Apart from that, there was radar - which meant that the British only had to scramble when they knew the enemy was approaching. Without radar they would have to patrol the skies on standby.