The Battle of Britain

In the summer and autumn of 1940 British people saw something that they had never seen before, mass destruction of buildings and an air war like none other. The Battle of Britain was an attempt by Germany to weaken Britain to the point that German forces would be able to invade the British isles and force Great Britain to surrender. On the other hand, newly elected Prime Minister Winston Churchill was not going to sit back and let this happen. The air was quickly filled with Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire front line fighters.1 One night a German bomber was flying from Norway en route to Britain when it got lost and accidentally dropped its bombs on a suburb of London. In response, Winston Churchill ordered an attack on Berlin. This made Hitler very angry and as a result he ordered bombers to specifically target civilian buildings. The Royal Air Force was at one point reduced to approximately thirty-six planes and it looked as though Britain would loose...