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A building on Queen Victoria Street falling right after being hit by bambs falling on London
From July 10th to August 1st, the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) bombed airfields and towns before trying to invaid Great Britain. Germany was the first to try to invaid Great Britain by air. ths was the first campiegn to be faught entirely in the air.
The view of the many planes over London from the ground.
Battle of Britain 1940
Britain's numbers: fighter planes: 903 bombers: 560 coastal: 500 1963 total 1547 destroyed 544 pilots and crew killed
Civilian Casualties: 27,450 British civilians dead 32,138 wounded
Germany's numbers: fighter planes: 1464 bombers and dive-bombers: 661 reconnaissance: 569 4074 total 1887 destoryed 2500 pilots and crew killed
''Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'' -- Winston Churchill
