Major conflict1940

Battle of Britain

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United Kingdom · English Channel

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

Air campaign preventing German invasion of Britain and establishing fighter aircraft dominance.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Germany

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)Third Reich (1941)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Britain (1940). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-britain · Sources & methodology