HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Royal Air Force, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Operation Sea Lion
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Battle of britain, summer-autumn 1940. (german attack britain) from chapter 5, week 11. Preparation for bob was immediately done after the battle of france. German"s air obstacle that is raf which becomes the reason for the delay in the. Battle of britain was mainly about gaining air superiority over raf. Air marshal hermann assured hitler that the precision bombing of british bases can be used to clear the sky from raf. The advantages of raf belongs to british that make it necessary to remove them: 1) qualitative superiority that helped to compensate for the numerical inferiority of the. The german attacked the major british metropolitan areas as a punishment. This attack was done to sap (drain) british morale and inciting civilian opposition to churchil"s policy of resistance an idea inspired by giulio douhet, an. Italian general who predicted that mass uprisings by the terrorized civilian victims would ensure their government"s capitulation (government surrenders)
