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Battle of Britain
Events
Winston Churchill speech
18 June 1940
Luftwaffer ready July 1940
1000 fighters 1800 bombers
July 10th 1940
Battle for the channel
Eagle attack (mainland invasion)
Phase 1: August 12th 1940
South coast raids
Aimed for masts
Phase 2: August 15th 1940
Midlands and North raids
75 Germans shot down - black thursday
Phase 3: August 16th
South coast attack
300 aircraft
Hardest day: 18th August
Biggin Hill
Bomb plane stations
Start of Blitz: 7th September
750 luftwfer towards London
No bombs on London first week, foul weather
Battle of Britain day:15th September
Big wing
Luft lost 56 planes
Luftwaffer
Messersmitt 109
350mph cruise speed
2 cannon
Outnumber 4/1
Head: Herman Geuring
Junks 88s
Types of Plane (RAF)
Harvard (training)
American built
600 hp
Standard advanced trainer
Automatic undercarriage
200 mph
Tiger moth (training)
Spitfire
Tail dragger - land on all three wheels at once
less than 400
Rolls royce merlin engine
All metal
400 mph
Against fighters
Hurricane
1700
Hawker biplane
Merlin engine
340 mph top
40 ft wingspan
Length 42 ft
height 8ft 9 inch
460 mile range
Canvas and wood
Against bombers
People
Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding
Air chief marcial
Keith park
Front line south east
11 group
Douglas Bader
12 Group
Midlands and east coast
Radar
20 minutes warning
Dowding System - Early warning radar
Codenames
Operation sealion (German invasion operation)
Postponed on 17th September
Corps
Observer corps
30000 plane spotters
10hrs before finishing training
300 died in the water