Battle of Britain / July to Mid

Battle of Britain / July to Mid-October 1940
The Battle of Britain / July to Mid-October, 1940
Battle in the
West Map
War in the
Baltic Map
British Air Marshal
Luftwaffe Commander
Sir Hugh Dowding
Hermann Goering
Air Chief Marshal
Sir Hugh Dowding
Top commander of
the RAF (Royal Air
Force)
The Battle of Britain
Warning range of low level
radar towers.
Warning range of high level
radar towers.
Radar towers along the British coast
London during “the Blitz”
Luftwaffe Heinkel
HE 111 over London
Brits seeking
refuge from the
bombing in “the
tube.”
Anderson air raid shelter,
1941. Fits 6 people.
Dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral remains visible
above the horrors of war.
The milkman still delivers in the middle of “the Blitz!”
British Prime
Minister Winston
Churchill
"Never in the field of
human conflict was so
much owed by so many
to so few"
Luftwaffe JU 88 with Me 109 escorts
RAF Hurricane Fighters
American
Response to
the Battle of
Britain
September 1940 - - President Franklin Roosevelt signs
the “Destroyers for Bases Agreement” {above = WWI
era destroyers in storage at the Philadelphia Naval
Shipyards}
July 1941 – U.S. Navy convoys British supplies to
Iceland where the British Navy picks them up and
escorts them the rest of the way.
August 1941 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and
American President Franklin Roosevelt meet on the USS Augusta
off the coast of Newfoundland to create the “Atlantic Charter.”
Arrows show most
common convoy routes
across the Atlantic
Ocean - - - Battle of the
Atlantic!