Battle O Breetain

The Battle o Breetain (German: Luftschlacht um England, leeterally The Air Battle for Ingland) wis a militar campaign o the Seicont Warld War, in that the Ryal Air Force (RAF) defendit the Unitit Kinrick (UK) against lairge-scale attacks bi Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

Battle o Breetain
Pairt o the Seicont Warld War
Battle O Breetain
An Observer Corps spatter
scans the skies o Lunnon.
Date10 Julie – 31 October 1940
(3 months and 3 weeks)
LocationBreetish airspace
Result Breetish veectory
Belligerents
Battle O Breetain Unitit Kinrick
Battle O Breetain Canadae
Battle O Breetain Germany
Battle O Breetain Italy
Commanders an leaders
Unitit Kinrick Hugh Dowding
Unitit Kinrick Keith Park
Unitit Kinrick T. Leigh-Mallory
Unitit Kinrick Quintin Brand
Unitit Kinrick Richard Saul
Canadae L. Samuel Breadner Poland Zdzisław Krasnodębski
Nazi Germany Hermann Göring
Nazi Germany Albert Kesselring
Nazi Germany Hugo Sperrle
Nazi Germany Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
Kinrick o Italy R. C. Fougier
Units involved
Battle O Breetain Royal Air Force
Battle O Breetain Ryal Canadian
Air Force
Battle O Breetain Luftwaffe
Battle O Breetain Corpo Aereo Italiano
Strenth
1,963 serviceable aircraft 2,550 serviceable aircraft.
Casualties an losses
1,542 aircrew killt
422 aircrew woundit
1,744 aircraft destroyed
2,585 aircrew killt an missin, 925 capturt, 735 woundit
1,977 aircraft destroyed, 1,634 in combat an 343 non-combat
Aroond 90,000 ceevilian casualties, 40,000 o them fatal.

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Tags:

German leidNazi GermanyRyal Air ForceUnitit KinrickWarld War II

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