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Battle of Britain (1940)
On the Road to WW2 map as “The Battle of Britain”
Jul–Oct 1940 — The Luftwaffe fails to break Fighter Command, and the invasion is shelved. The first battle Hitler loses is fought by a few thousand pilots over southern England.
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- Battle site
- Chapter
- Phoney War and the fall of France (chapter 9 of Road to WW2)
- Atlas
- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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