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La batalla de Inglaterra (en inglés: Battle of Britain; en alemán: Luftschlacht um England) es el nombre con el que se conoce al conjunto de combates aéreos librados en cielo británico y sobre el canal de la Mancha, entre julio y octubre de 1940, cuando la Alemania nazi buscó destruir a la Real Fuerza Aérea británica (RAF) con el fin de lograr la superioridad aérea necesaria para ...
1 de ago. de 2008 · On Aug. 15, Goering ordered a maximum effort from his air fleets. They flew more than 2,000 sorties that day, the most of any day during the Battle of Britain. The German high command claimed 99 RAF fighters destroyed in the air. In actuality, the RAF lost 34 fighters while shooting down 75 German airplanes.
Slaget om England ( engelsk: Battle of Britain) blev udkæmpet som luftslag mellem 10. juli og 31. oktober 1940 og mellem det tyske Luftwaffe og det britiske Royal Air Force. Hovedmålet med den tyske luftoffensiv var at vinde luftherredømmet over England, så Operation Seelöwe, tyskernes invasion af England, kunne sættes i gang.
The Battle of Britain Memorial in London lists the names of 2,937 airmen from 15 different countries who flew for England. Of that number, 544 were killed.The Luftwaffe lost approximately 2,600 men, including those killed among the German bomber aircraft, with their large crews.
10/11 May 1941, 11:02pm – 05:57am. The most devastating raid on London took place on the night of 10/11 May 1941. The moon was full and the Thames had a very low ebb tide. These two combined with a maximum effort by the Germans, before the moved east to attack the Soviet Union, to produce one of the most devastating raids on the capital.
18 de nov. de 2022 · Outnumbered and outgunned RAF Fighter Command were the last line of defence in pushing back the Luftwaffe and Hitler’s invasion of Britain in 1940. In this f...
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22 de ene. de 2011 · If the Battle of Britain was a victory of ‘the Few’: that of a small military elite of fighter pilots, the Battle of London was a victory of ‘the Many’. The bombing plane, coming at night, got through. It rained down death and destruction. But it was defeated by the mass mobilisation of a million ordinary Londoners in defence of their city.
