The Battle of Britain

Fighter Planes, The late spring of 1940 saw World War II go to the skies of England as the RAF valiantly battled off the attack of Hitler's Luftwaffe. After a period known as the 'Fraud War', Hitler had requested his powers to attack other European nations and there was little resistance in Belgium, Holland and France.

Fighter Planes, Operation Dynamo had seen around 300,000 men of the British Expeditionary Forces culled to security by a flotilla of boats making the excursion from England to Dunkirk over a time of a few days. Presently Hitler had his sights on England. The white bluffs of Dover were obviously noticeable as the German High Command looked over the English Channel from Calais.

In any case, until the skies of England were under German control, Hitler couldn't approve Operation Sealion - the intrusion of Britain. With America being unwilling to join the war at this stage and her Allies vanquished, Britain would need to confront the Germans alone.

Fighter Planes, Could Britain hold out until the harvest time when the climate would keep the Germans from intersection the Channel? England's trusts lay in the hands of the daring pilots of the Royal Air Force, "The Few" as Churchill later alluded to them. It was simply British pilots in the RAF, the Commonwealth was spoken to with pilots from different frontier stations including South Africa and Rhodesia and also Poles and even a couple of Americans.

Hitler sent his aircraft over to pound Britain into accommodation yet essentially, their contender escorts just had the fuel for a couple of minutes battle before they would need to return leaving the planes unprotected. Surprisingly, the Luftwaffe came up against solid resistance and there was to be no rehash of their quick triumphs on the Continent. The British landing strips in the south east were taking a pounding until one night in August 1940, a German plane got lost of discarded its bombs over London before heading home. In countering, the RAF dispatched an assault over Berlin.

Hitler was irate and requested his planes to assault London rather than the RAF landing strips. This was an essential defining moment as it gave the RAF some greatly required help. The Luftwaffe neglected to pick up the high ground anytime and in mid September, Hitler inconclusively put off Operation Sealion. The quick risk of intrusion was over and Churchill discussed the commitment of Fighter Command in a discourse "Never in the field of human clash has so much been owed by such a large number of to so few".