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The Battle of Britain

Picture of the battle

Casualties and losses for Britain

Casualties and losses for Germany

Caualties and losses

  • 1,542 aircrew killed
  • 422 aircrew wounded
  • 1,744 aircraft destroyed
  • 2,585 aircrew killed and missing
  • 925 captured
  • 735 wounded
  • 1,977 aircraft destroyed, 1,634 in combat and 343 non combat

Around 90,000 civilian casualties, 40,00 of them fatal

Allies/Enemies

Units involved

Enemies

Luftwaffe

Corpo Aereno Italiano

Allies and Enmies

Allies

Poland

New Zealand

Belgium

Ireland

France

South Africa

Australia

Jamaica

Brabadoes

Newfoundland

Richard Saul

(British Commander)

Allies Commander

  • Richard Saul was born April 16, 1891 in Dublin, Ireland
  • He died November 30, 1965 at the age of 74
  • He Commanded Air Defense Eastern Mediterranean

An Monument of the war

Picture

Hermann Goring (Nazi Commander)

Enemies Commander

  • Born Jan 12, 1893 Rosenheim, Germany
  • Died October 15, 1946 Nurermberg Germany
  • He was the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1

Facts about the battle

Facts about the battle

  • The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War
  • The Royal Air Force defended the united kingdom against large-scale attacks by nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe
  • The primary objective of the German forces was to compel Britain to agree to a negotiated peace settlement.
  • The Germans had rapidly overwhelmed France and the low countries, leaving Britain face the threat of invasion by sea
  • On 16 july, Adolf Hitler ordered the preparation of Operation Sea Lion
  • But the luftwaffe failure to overwhelm the Royal Air Force forced Hitler to postpone and eventually cancel Operation Sea Lion

Results of the battle

Result of the war

  • Overall, the Battle of Britain was a failure for both German and the British
  • The Battle of Britain marked the first time that the Nazis were stopped
  • Both sides in the battle made exaggerated claims of numbers of enemy aircraft shot down
  • Both sides lost heavily during the Battle of Britain

sources

Sources

nzhistory.govt.nz

margetfreebush.tripod.com

wikipedia

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