Why Did Nazi Germany Abandon Their Plan To Invade Britain? | World War II In Colour | War Stories 

This is a whole series on history channel it's called WW2 in color

the maps make it fun and easier to follow along and understand

But how are we going to know what to think without the media elite explaining it to us in the context of today’s “morally superior” point of view?

But how are we supposed to know what to think without the elite media’s editorial re-interpretation of past events in light of today’s moral superiority

Couldn’t have said it better myself … Nothing more annoying than shoveling 3-5 talking heads down our throats all saying the same thing in slightly different ways lol.

Right?😂😂😂

Crossed over lines like in Blackadder?

Even more so the development of the cavity magnetron, which effectively miniaturised radar allowing it to be mounted on aircraft. That was a game-changer, especially in the battle for the Atlantic.

The Germans also had radar, but it was not as good as ours, and we kept a step ahead of them throughot the war..

Indeed

You can't beat the British for their sheer grit, intelligence and fortitude!

@@maryclynch9356 The French,Scottish,Germans,Alpines, Balkaners by far and objectively beat the British in all three of these things.

It highlights the difference between Britain's approach in the war and Germany's. Britain received aid from Poland, with a Polish government in exile in Britain. Norway joined them. The British war effort was aided by Polish, Norwegian and Czech forces. Their good relations with former colonies (Dominions like Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and support from India who contributed large forces for the war effort as well. And entering into agreements to share all technology helped Britain and USA to leap ahead technologically during the war. German tech gets famous through wonder-weapons. But look at German guided weapons tech - a clumsy guidance system where a bombardier far behind the bomb would backseat-fly it into the target using the "Mark I eyeball." Less than a year later the US Navy deployed the first self-guided weapon - a radar guided bomb that would fly itself to the target allowing the launching aircraft to maneuver/evade after launching it. Look at the list of nations in the United Nations Alliance by the end of the war. The Allies made friends where they went. The Germans turned the world against them. (interesting example, the Americans solved some of their early logistical challenges in North Africa by shipping vehicles over in parts and training locals to assemble the vehicles for them offering higher wages than they were earning before. In contrast, you could look up the sabotage that was done by French workers on the trucks they were forced to build for the German war effort.)

@@iansneddon2956 Interesting points to think about when considering a certain person's threat to leave NATO.

​@@BadgersjHe's not the only one.

@@iansneddon2956 - South Africa also contributed troops to the war effort as it was a British colony in those days till 1961.

It's well worth a visit if you can get there.

You're not the only one. I tuck myself into bed many nights re-watching many myself. They are magnificent! 👍

It's like my grandad reading me a story

I fall asleep every night to each episode

@@kulio1214 same

Seems like a number of others are like you! I'm guessing I've watched the entire series 20+ times. It's so good! And, I too have fallen asleep watching.

Im a Scot and certainly heard of RAF Edzell for sure ..Brechin is in the "Angus region " of Scotland not far from Arbroath and Dundee etc . My late Father was in the British Royal Navy and on Russian convoys with the British in war days . Awe the best bud 👍

Interesting 👍

I am 87 years old, college educated and mindful of modern history. Nevertheless, I find these epic stories of WW2 to be most informative and fascinating.Keep 'em coming. -michaelB, Detroit, MI

Watson What?

I lived on that base as a kid. Early seventies. My dad was a dentist there...USN I learned Guy Fawkes Night (bonfire) before I learned Halloween. I learned BBC humor and Monty Python before I learned American humor when we repatriated back to the States We had at least one bunker on that base as a leftover from World War II... People hear about the blitz in London and all that but they don't realize how much Scotland was also bombed

👍🏻 Got it on 2nd take. 😅😅

Well played, dear boy.

Bwhahahahaha

Lol. Germany and Britain went to war. Now they're friends and 🇯🇲 who was an allied for Britain can't enter Britain without a visa.

Give credit to Frank Sanazi the creator of that joke.

If you gained air dominance over English Channel then our navy would have been sitting ducks and an invasion would have been inevitable but thanks to RAF giving it there all and keeping air dominance over English Channel was absolutely vital.

Also, as my mother pointed out, the documentary Hogan's Heroes demonstrated how stupid we were.

@@aa1415 I second that.

Adolf Hitler's main goal was always to conquer Russia Britain was just a distraction, it was too expensive

After the invasion of the netherlands, and the amount of junkers our ancient air force managed to down before we surrendered (174 transport planes in 5 days) any para drop invasion of the UK was deemed way to risky anyway, and by boat.. yeah gl vs the british navy

Yes. This intro is like a lullaby

Ironically they fought for exactly this , the right for people to live how they want .

@@unnamedchannel1237 I dont want to be censored by youtube and all other media

You got that right. We are going down.

That's a fact!

The state of the country is exactly what they fought for, albeit unknowingly.

And by the end of August the RAF had more available pilots than the Luftwaffe according to Bungay. It was the Luftwaffe that was losing the attrition rate in airmen, and aircraft. The RAF was stronger in September than in July. The opposite was the case for the Luftwaffe.

we had lots of pilots but not enough planes. there were spitfires and hurricanes sitting on the runways without parts, manufacturing was also being bombed. we lost something like 300+ spitfires in 1940 alone. This was before the US helped a year later with shipments of stock and we were on our own as they attempted isolationism.

​@@boxlabsNonsense. The depots were over flowing. Britain produced 10,000 in 1940. Far more than 300 Spitfires were lost in 1940. A pittance considering 20,000 were produced during the war.

​@@lyndoncmp5751According to serving records this is the case. To be specific, the British had more fighter pilots than the Germans by that time.

@@DannyBoy777777 that sounds like unrealistic propaganda, simply because there would be alot more spitfires at museums today.

Yeah the Royal Navy alone had around 75 destroyers off the coast of kent, the Germans would be screwed if they tried it.

Only temporarily short of equipment. By August 1940 the British Army troops in UK were fully equipped. 21 infantry divisions. 2 armored divisions. A third armored division training up. Surplus tanks and artillery were being sent to Egypt to bolster the defense of the vital Suez canal. So over 400,000 troops of the British Army ready to meet an invasion of their homeland. Germany couldn't reasonably hope to get more than a quarter of this number across the Channel.

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- I have read it was 67 destroyers stationed around the UK for the Home Fleet. It would take time to get this force in the Channel but after that Germany could not resupply or reinforce its vastly outnumbered invasion force.

Mallory was a confident moron with power, that's always a disaster. Beggars belief people like that are tolerated when the countries future is at stake.

I thought the Poles won the battle of Britain on there own

@@briansanderson480 It seems like that but 303 Polish Squadron were combat experienced at a time when most RAF pilots were green. The RAF soon caught up.

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And blinded by false media lies to fight the wrong enemy

"1930's appeasement", Sept. 3, 1939 when Poland fought alone, the Phoney War 1939-40, Dunkirk June 1940 ??? Or after when they got back to the UK and didn't have to stand, fight, stop and defeat the German Army anymore? Russia did that

@@davidshoup3856 people seem to forget the jewish bolsheviks in russia were the aggressor in the east and the jewish crimes against german civilians in territory given to the polish in the versailles treaty

get a grip

It's weird how some people think that the citizens of England past were somehow different to us today 🤔 This is not the case, we are exactly the same as our grandparents generation and they would behave exactly as we do now in our environment.

Yeah stop lying 🤥

No doubt Ultra was a great innovation. But what won the war for the Allies (on both fronts) was America's ability to out manufacture war materials better than anyone else on the planet.

​@@MangoTroubles-007You base your response on nothing but your own ignorance and tendency towards rudeness.

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@@ianworley8169oh my, ewwwww

“Australian female soldier” I would love to hear more about her and what she did. Aussies are good people and have always helped us here in the US. They are tough, resourceful, have integrity, and a true grit.

Fantastic movie they don’t make them like that anymore

Still a great film enjoy the aircraft in the film no CGI then they were loaned by air forces and museums etc

The greatest story never told is even better, or europa the last battle/battle europa. If you've got the fortitude and integrity Hellstorm is a must watch

I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the actual number of pilots from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent).

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684Brilliant,thank you for putting the record straight.

@@BingoFrogstrangler The British historic record has never attempted to airbrush the commonwealth and foreign pilots who flew with RAF Fighter Command that summer out of history... but there's an increasing number of revisionist anti-Brit commenters who brazenly try to over represent the foreign contribution and downplay the overwhleming role of British born pilots..... attempting to snidily portray the situation as one where "Europe saved Britain" when the opposite is FAR closer to the truth. For further information search out the "Battle of Britain Historical Society" and the "Battle of Britain Memorial Trust" who continue to catalogue and honour the lives of ALL those who took part in the British side of the struggle in 1940.

@@BingoFrogstrangler The British historic record has never attempted to airbrush the commonwealth and foreign pilots who flew with RAF Fighter Command that summer out of history... but there's an increasing number of revisionist anti-Brit commenters who brazenly try to over represent the foreign contribution and downplay the overwhleming role of British born pilots..... attempting to snidily portray the situation as one where "Europe saved Britain" when the opposite is FAR closer to the truth. That was my motivation to quickly assemble my post above. For further information search out the "Battle of Britain Historical Society" and the "Battle of Britain Memorial Trust" who continue to catalogue and honour the lives of ALL those who took part in the British side of the struggle in 1940.

And then Churchill kicked the Poles out of the country, lied about the Russian massacre of Polish citizen in the Katrina forest and gave Poland to Russia

It's not mentioned because you are wrong with respect to the question of what stopped Hitler's invasion plans. The Mosquito did play a part later in the war but that was after the end of 1941 when the Americans were on board and the threat of invasion had subsided. Also the Mosquito was not designed as a fighter. It was a stealth bomber against specific targets. Fighter capability was later added, but it was not designed as a dog fight plane relying on speed not manoeuvrabiluty or armour. So your mention of the Mosquito with regard to the topic in question is entirely wrong.

I think they ignored the mosquitos cause they were not the most dangerous targets in the sky. Why should you attack some small squadrons of mosquitos if you can attack a 1000 bomber swarm? The mosquitos did not have the carry capacity of B-17 or B-24 or the heavy british bombers which makes it a less viable target also it was fast sometimes even as fast as a fighter. Dont get me wrong, the Mosquito was the best twin engine plane of WW2 but it was not decisive in any way. The Mosquito was somewhat of a special operations plane used for special tasks like shooting down fighters that were returning to base or bomb special targets that could only be attacked by fast low flying planes. If they had used it like an heavy bomber we would look different at it.

Like the chap stated it did come later, but the brilliance of the thing, stopping a Göring speech on live radio and the Goebbels speech too. Göring said of it: In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked

@@wobblybobengland That is the genius of it, plus the fact it could not be seen on radar either.

bro watched a 52 minute video in 3 minutes

'The Germans had no where near enough transport for 20 divisions.' The assault wave was to consist of nine divisions and a seriously under strength parachute division. Walter Ansel, who had access to Kriegsmarine records at the end of the war, determined that the Germans had requisitioned 180 transport ship (largely small coasting vessels), just over 2,100 converted barges, 400 tugs/trawlers, and 1,200 motor boats, The first wave was to consist of around 850 barges, towed in pairs by the tugs/trawlers and the transports, would carry the leading elements of each division. The Germans had enough vessels to carry out their alloted tasks. What they did not have, of course, was any means of protecting this ramshackle flotilla from the 70 RN cruisers and destroyers which were based some five hours steaming from Dover, supported by around 500 or so smaller warships.

@@dovetonsturdee7033 And I would add that with 21 infantry divisions and 2 armored divisions of the British Army (all fully equipped) that's over 400,000 troops defending Britain against a force that wouldn't be much (if any) over 100,000 men.

@@iansneddon2956 Churchill apparently was even willing to go as far as to use chemical weapons on the beach landings, that's the kind of measures he would have took if it meant stopping a German invasion.

Well observed and a skilled way of divulging 🫡

Still is? How do you figure that?

Was.

​@@seane6616it is, and america re-industrialize under Biden

This series has been uploaded 10 other times at least on other channel’s uncensored

It's because ads wont be shown and it will not reach as many people. The video would get way less views thanks to youtubes policies

I guess there waiting for us to witness it again before long and we will 😢😢😢

Why do you want to see that? It says a lot about you tbh

​@matt.willoughby it's human history. Stop censoring it.

Hahahaha

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They had air dominance over Southern England until the decision was made to switch bombing priorities to the London area. In fact prior to that fateful order the RAF was less than a week from total collapse in the South and even Churchill remarked that the accidental bombing of Berlin was a Godsend to their survival because it drew Hitler's rage away from their already crippled air bases and gave them the breathing room the RAF needed.

@@jebbroham1776 WRONG! They NEVER had even air superiority over South England. They ALWAYS lost more pilots than the British did. LMAO

@@user-po3ev7is5w WRONG, the RAF in September 1940 was on it’s last gasp when Goering switched targets to London and other major cities.

Plus transportation, Hugh number of very large ships

@@philliphall5198 Yes, they completely lacked landing craft of all types

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Not even close my friend and friends take care of friends

Your friends are a strange lot , others call them collaborators or those who look the other way meekly allowing tyranny to happen

I'm not surprised my friend we love history and weapons and want everyone to know American history and this scares people who don't want to know American history and right and wrong

Check hellstorm or europa the last battle

Be kind , re-wind

There is another operation going on these days and seems to be a bit slower, but its working. Nostradamus wrote about it, The invasion of Europe from the south.

Which barges? The ones germany did not have?

@@arnepietruszewski9255 The Germans had assembled 2,400 barges for the invasion 860 from Germany, 1200 from the Netherlands and Belgium and 350 from France . 800 were powered .The plan was to tow all the barges by tugs to the U.K. shore the powered ones would then make there way ashore the unpowered ones would be towed ashore by the tugs.

@@arnepietruszewski9255 The Germans had assembled 2,400 barges for the invasion 860 from Germany, 1200 from the Netherlands and Belgium and 350 from France . 800 were powered .The plan was to tow all the barges by tugs to the U.K. shore the powered ones would then make there way ashore the unpowered ones would be towed ashore by the tugs.

"Judea declares war on Germany" Daily Express 1933. Germany wasn't a bully they were acting defensively.

Complete naval inferiority presented a "bit of a challenge" (in the style of British understatement). Germany: We'll send our forces over on un-seaworthy riverboats and barges with relatively no defense and assume a few mines we scatter around and our 800 or so bombers escorted by 600 or so fighters will frighten the Royal Navy away. RAF: We're still here. We have several hundred fighters ready to go and could make it a thousand if we send up our reserves. We're not going to just sit back and watch. Royal Navy: They call it the ENGLISH Channel. Rule Britania, Britania Rule the Waves. Britons Never Never Never Shall Be Slaves. Fight! Fight! Fight! (would pity the officers and crew of the last destroyers to get to the Channel who would have had nothing left to attack and would have to hang their heads when asked "How many German boats did you sink?")

@@iansneddon2956 Earl St. Vincent's statement to the House of Lords in 1801, 'I do not say, my Lords, that they will not come. I only say, they will not come by sea,' still held good in 1940. Or, as the remarkably named C-in-C at the Nore, Sir Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Earle-Drax, remarked, rather less elegantly 'To defeat the invasion force, we need gunfire and plenty of it.' The fact that the Royal Navy Pink List from 16 September, 1940, shows some seventy destroyers and light cruisers within five hours steaming of the Straits of Dover suggests that his wish might well have been granted.

@@dovetonsturdee7033 I recall the Admiralty said they could not guarantee that the Germans would not be able to land forces in the South of England. Due to the hours needed to assemble in strength. But they would ensure that whatever landed would not be reinforced or resupplied. For gunfire, it would be everything from the 8 inch, 6 inch and 4.7 inch main guns down to an abundance of 2 pounder pom-poms. But with the potential for a, in some context, significant force landed and fighting the British Army, I think the biggest battle would be after the smoke cleared and the Royal Navy and British Army argue about who the monument should be dedicated to (with the RAF wanting to weigh in too).

Britain didn't have the man power to launch an Invasion force on its own. While Britain provided the majority of ships on D day, the U.S had allot more Soldiers

@@user-hu1yi8ox9z Actually, for every two US soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy, there were three British & Canadians.

That's pretty funny and you're a funny guy

Interesting stuff!

Good bless your father.

It was badly handled by the British commander who couldn't put his arrogance aside for a minute. Instead he sent a lower officer who ended up offending the French commander. The French were ready to sail to the French Caribbean Islands.

Really? Even if the war against Russia didn't begin until over six months after the Battle of Britain & Sealion had been abandoned?

More completely ignorant BS from "fullthrottle".

Yes, Goering claiming that the Luftwaffe wasn't beaten, but was re-assigned to the East before they could achieve their victory. I can see him claiming that. But fact is that the depleted Luftwaffe had to switch to night bombing to stem their losses as their numerical advantage had pretty much evaporated by September 1940 and with new pilots starting to arrive from training programs in Canada and elsewhere in the Commonwealth and with UK aircraft manufacturing far ahead of German production, it was just getting worse. The numbers of operational aircraft over time demonstrate this. By June 1941 the Luftwaffe in total was smaller than the force they sent against Britain in July 1940. Meanwhile the RAF had more single engine fighters in Britain (with most of them Spitfires at this point) than the Luftwaffe had single engine fighters in total. I guess the Luftwaffe could have started the Battle of Britain all over again in June 1941 if there was no invasion of USSR, but it wouldn't have gone better than the 1940 version.

@@iansneddon2956Thanks for that analysis -he seemed a bit of a character! (prob an understatement)

Ringstellung and steckerbords.

The thing was that the British home fleet was way up in Northern Scotland Scapa Flow. It would take days for them to arrive. By that time most of the German troops would have landed. The British home fleet would have been able to block resupply.

@@mrbaab5932 The Navy was well informed of Germany's amphibious abilities, and would have been able to have a fleet in place in ample time to respond to any invasion attempt. It would take weeks to assemble an invasion force and the concentrated army would be an easy target to locate, although it would be costly to assault

Home fleet would of thrown themselves into a German invasion. The destroyer captains tended to be little cooked

Also read up on the seaborne part of the German invasion of Crete. Royal Navy destroyers got in amongst the barges and it was a disaster. The airborne part of the Crete operation that did succeed was however so costly that the Germans never tried it again. Attacking Britain where there were more forces available to resist would have been even more costly.

@@mrbaab5932 Anti-Invasion patrols that consisted of 60+ Destroyers and Cruisers were stationed 6 hours away, while the Home Fleet would reach the Channel within a day if they went full speed (which they absolutely would). Germany can't fight that, nor land enough forces before resupply gets cut off and the Germans start taking shells from the beaches and the seas.

They wanted to preserve Vichy independence, such as it was, and didn't want to hand over ships to be used against the Germans as this might invite reprisals. The British gave the French a number of options which included them steaming their navy to stay at a French colony in the Caribbean (far from the Germans), park them in British ports where they would be held and not used and the British would compensate them for damage, or steam the ships to New York and park them there. What the French admiral communicated to his superiors was "The British demand we hand over our ships or they will sink them" and then the fight started. Give the French some credit. The British doubted the French promise that they would scuttle their ships rather than allow the Germans to seize them. The Germans did eventually try to seize the French Navy ships in Toulon, and the French scuttled them first. A total of 77 vessels destroyed by the French. Of course this was a waste. If they had been sent to Algiers instead they could have been used by the Free French. It would have given de Gaulle more bargaining power in influencing Allied plans.

The French committed the consumate military mistake. If you fight the next war, identically as you fought the last one, you lose.

Because both nations were bitter rivals from the colonial days.

T Even after Britain was bombing Germany for 8 days, Germany was offering peace all this time, and only after the 8th day the order was issued. AH even excluded people from the party for wanting to strike back at Britain before that.

I couldn’t disagree more but I’m going to like because they call us Perfidious Albion so it’s their turn for irrational name calling

As the battle progressed, the Luftwaffe became more focused on the RAF and started making up for reduced numbers by concentrating their forces and flying multiple missions per day. So while the total number of Luftwaffe was declining it looked like it was growing when totaling the number of attacking aircraft for any given day (because they were counting the same aircraft multiple times). Which was wearing out aircraft faster which reduced strength more which required more sorties. Flying 4 times a day could mean 10+ hours in the cockpit per day. They were getting exhausted. But British intelligence tended to err on the side of caution and overstated Luftwaffe capabilities. Rumours spread at one point that the Luftwaffe had 10,000 aircraft in reserve that they would soon be sending against Britain - against which the RAF had no hope. So the RAF was still seeing themselves as the underdog, and kept directing a lot of their resources (including many experienced pilots) into training replacements for the heavy losses they still expected to take. The RAF was growing, but they always felt they weren't growing fast enough. (btw, those 10,000 Luftwaffe aircraft never existed). Another question was why the Luftwaffe leadership thought they were always close to crushing the RAF as their force shrank from continued losses and shortages of replacement pilots, spare parts, replacement aircraft and the RAF was still fighting? Better to overestimate your enemy and rise to that challenge than think your enemy is weak and near defeat and not preparing for a longer war.

@@iansneddon2956 Thank you for your reasoned reply,I do remember many years ago reading Dowdings book and was rather surprised that he never mentioned any BoB just what he refferd to as ''the summer air battles over southern England''not more than a page and half given to that time period,also the fact they new war was coming and fighter aircraft production was given priority.

@@terryoneil6209 I think the popular "Battle of Britain" came after with reference to a speech by Churchill. It makes sense that Dowding would see each day's attack(s) or each attacking group as a separate battle as this is how they fought them. Overall, a better word would be that this was a campaign. Dowding had a long career which culminated in the defense of Britain. If this is the book I am thinking of, it was written during the war and perhaps he omitted most details on this recent fighting (self-censorship) to allow the book to be published which still wasn't allowed until after the war. Brilliant man but a bit too opinionated and outspoken - or perhaps the right amount for the time but put out to pasture when he wasn't needed (or when they thought he wasn't needed). But his criticism of Stanley Baldwin's claim that the bomber would always get through probably played very well for Neville Chamberlain and may have helped get RAF fighter command established in the first place. Neville Chamberlain's support for increased fighter aircraft to defend against bombers dates back to at least 1936 and he was a great supporter of Dowding's work. A quote attributed to Neville Chamberlain in July 1940 (around the time he was being blamed in the press for Britain's un-readiness for war after the debacles in France) was “If I am personally responsible for deficiencies in tanks and guns, I must equally be responsible for the efficiency of the RAF”. He didn't accomplish this directly but he certainly ensured that RAF Fighter Command was a funding priority and ensured Dowding had the authority he needed.

Extremely easily, as this was first shown on TV years ago 😊

Using your skill and judgement, would you be good enough to explain how invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium, all without declaration of war, shows that 'they tried to maintain peace the entire time?' I must lack your erudition, as it really doesn't seem that way to me.

Yeah, never wanted war. That’s what they would tell every country to ease them until they could blindside them. They were even “allies” with the USSR until they decided they were ready to invade Russia.

I prefer "Europa the last battle" Much more factual.

It's a Roman city

@@Pongle1234 And it's populated with foreigners.

AH said in 1930 Paris would be a black city in 100 years if europeans didnt stand up to the small hat banking kabbalists, i get the feeling a lot of old men wish they were speaking german now.

@@skillfuldabest Yes the Anglo-Saxons

@@mrmajeika6101 46% of Londoners are Black and Minority Ethnic, compared to 14% of England as a whole. West London has the highest proportion (53%) of its population that are Black and Minority Ethnic, followed by East London (50%).

Isn't invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, & Belgium not really the most obvious way of demonstrating peaceful intentions? Oh, and Barbarossa was more than six months later. Didn't your neo handbook tell you that, herr obergruppenfuhrer?

The Channel Islands are Crown Dependencies, and not actually part of Great Britain.

Yes they did invade and occupy some islands that were part of Great Britain. I saw a Doco on it.

@@charlesmartella But as I commented earlier, the Channel Islands were, and are, Crown Dependencies, not part of Great Britain.

@@dovetonsturdee7033 yes you are correct. But the inhabitants are British citizens.

The Channel islands were British territory with British citizens, just not part of Great Britain. Great Britain is just a subset of Britain. Britain collectively refers to the British Isles. These islands include Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and thousands of other islands. But Guernsey and the other Channel Islands are not part of Britain, they are part of Normandy. They were subject to the Crown due to the past kings of England also having the title Duke of Normandy. When the French drove the English out after the 100 years war, the Channel islands were the last of the French holdings of the British crown. Rather than just think of them as being south of England and north of France, you should also think of them as being west of France. Most of the Channel Islands are further south than the French port of Cherbourg. They lie west of the Normandy coast. Guernsey island is about 120 km from England, but is a mere 50 km from the French coast. Which puts into perspective why the Channel islands were occupied by the Germans. The UK considered them indefensible. While of symbolic importance, the islands didn't do much for the Germans.