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Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain. “Miracle at Dunkirk”. "My Luftwaffe is invincible. And now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?” Hermann Goering in June 1940. Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering.

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Battle of Britain

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  1. Battle of Britain

  2. “Miracle at Dunkirk”

  3. "My Luftwaffe is invincible. And now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?”Hermann Goering in June 1940. Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering

  4. Churchill had become Prime Minister of Britain in May 1940 after Chamberlain’s diplomatic failure became obvious with Nazi aggression in Western Europe Winston Churchill

  5. Operation Sea Lion

  6. Luftwaffe vs. the R.A.F.

  7. Phase 1. (July 10th - August 7th 1940) Attacks on the Channel Convoys

  8. Phase 2. (August 8th - September 6th 1940) Attacks on RAF Airfields

  9. Phase 3. (September 7th - September 30th 1940) Bombing of London, Major Cities & Airfields

  10. Phase 4. (October 1st - October 31st 1940) Concentrated Night Bombing Tactics

  11. London “Blitz”

  12. “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’” (Winston Churchill)

  13. “Never was so much owed to so many – by so few.” “We shall never surrender!” Winston Churchill

  14. German Blockade… • 30 day supply for the British • U.S. pledges to remain neutral

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