Battle of Britain
July 1940
Through a blue summer, Luftwaffe bombers came across the Channel day after day and Spitfires and Hurricanes rose to meet them. Young men on both sides died in burning cockpits over English fields. By October the Germans had failed to break the RAF and Hitler postponed his invasion. Never, said Churchill, was so much owed by so many to so few.
In context
Also in 1940 (7 other events on record)
- Germany invades France and the Low Countries · Europe · War
- Dunkirk evacuation · Europe · War
- The Blitz begins · Europe · War
- Germany invades Norway and Denmark · Europe · War
- Axis pact binds Germany, Italy, Japan · Europe · Politics
- Trotsky killed in Mexico City · North America · Politics
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