Posted September 13, 2010 3:01 PM
By David Todd
The Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary: Nazi Germany's first major defeat
Seventy years ago in the summer of 1940, thousands of gallant men fought and died in the skies above England. The battle was a true change in the fortunes of war. Without the 'few' – those Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots who fought so hard, Britain would probably have lost the war and the world may have succumbed to Nazi domination. In the Battle of Britain, both the German Luftwaffe and the RAF had excellent and poor aircraft types. Both sides had both excellent and poor strategies and tactics. Both sides made large and small mistakes. So how exactly did the RAF win? David Todd analyses and celebrates this battle and explains the twists and turns of fortune that may have changed the result of World War II.
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