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Any Battle of Britain Historians out there?


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I've got to do an half an hour talk on 'Capel Le Fearne' for work and I haven't got a scoobys :rolleyes:

 

Wondered if there was any WWII Historians out there willing to help ;)

 

Here's my Homework to do...

 

How did the Battle of Britain shape the war? What lessons were learnt and implemented. Discuss the implications for a tactical air battle having a strategic effect.

Any ideas? I can't use wikipedia as my boss has printed most of the pages out on it :(

 

Cheers

 

Pete

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There's a lot of subject matter there, probably best to do as much reading around the subject as possible to get a good overview, then focus on specifics. Loads of tactics where developed on both sides during the Battle, it also instigated the large scale city bombing campaigns carried out by both sides. It was also the first time that the axis forces were forced to stop an international advance.

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Watching the film 'The Battle of Britain' will probably help too :)

 

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Not 100% accurate though, IE; the Germans had far more advanced Radar than us at the time, they weren't as afraid of it as we thought they would be. What made it effective was the way we organised our defences, enabling us to respond to threats very quickly.

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Remember to include the little known fact that there were only 28 Spitfires ever made. The rest were Hurricanes with bits of the wings painted light blue to make them look like the Spitfires iconic elleiptical wing.

Also, aerodynamically, the Spitfire should be impossible to fly, although I may be confusing that with bees.

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remember to include the little known fact that there were only 28 spitfires ever made. The rest were hurricanes with bits of the wings painted light blue to make them look like the spitfires iconic elleiptical wing.

Also, aerodynamically, the spitfire should be impossible to fly, although i may be confusing that with bees.

 

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