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Battle of Britain
2010-06-15
I have been long contemplating commemorating the 70th Anniversary ot the Battle of Britain in a special way, and I have decided: I am post-blogging the events of the Battle as they unveiled 70 years ago. Read more inside.
Added in August 2010
2010-08-30
24 August – 6 September 1940 Phase two of Adlerangriff did not immediately follow the first because of additional concentration of German fighter forces ...
2010-08-27
19 August 1940 Luftwaffe activities between the Adlertag and 18 August, which marked the end of the first phase of their assault, followed essentially ...
2010-08-25
18 August 1940 During the five days of the offensive which had started on the Eagle Day, the Germans were probing for gaps in ...
2010-08-23
16 August 1940 Of the two main British fighter types participating in the Battle of Britain, the rugged Hawker Hurricane was notorious for its ...
2010-08-22
15 August 1940 This day was remarkable in many respects. Five major operations were fought. The activity ranged over a front of 500 miles ...
2010-08-20
13 August 1940 Unternehmen Adlerangriff (Operation Eagle Attack), originally planned for 10 August, had to be postponed full three days because of the bad ...
2010-08-19
12 August, 1940 By the beginning of August, concentration of Luftwaffe forces in France had been fully accomplished, creating prerequisites for the next phase ...
2010-08-12
4 August 1940 In the late afternoon of 4 August 1940, Polish pilot Witold Urbanowicz arrived by car in front of the officers’ mess ...
2010-08-03
3 August 1940 During the first phase of the air battle in July, Dowding’s Fighter Command, although desperately short of pilots, had beaten the ...
Added in July 2010
2010-07-24
24 July 1940 Margate was a seaside town which for over a century had attracted crowds of Londoners by its wide beaches and amusement facilities. In the morning of ...