OPERATION SEA LION AND THE BEGINNING OF THE AIR WAR
- Hitler’s plan to invade Great Britain
- Needed control of the air before this would be possible
- Luftwaffe begins bombing aircraft factories, hangars, runways, radar, convoys
- British come within days of not being able to sustain a defense
the blitz
- Hitler decides to bomb London 76 nights straight
- Hitler had promised this would never happen in Germany
- This allows RAF to recover
Winston Churchill
- The Bulldog
- Led the resistance and talked to the British population through the radio every day
- Elected as British Prime Minister after the Fall of France
- Famous for his speeches during WWII
- Perhaps the best historian of the 20th century
- Knighted