The
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain, also known as the Air Battle for England (german: die Luftschlacht um England), was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defende ...
was a Second World War campaign in which the German Luftwaffe and British Royal Air Force fought for air superiority.
Battle of Britain or Battle for Britain may also refer to:
Video games
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''Battle of Britain'' (1985 video game)
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Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain'', a 1989 video game
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''Battle of Britain'' (1999 video game)
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Rowan's Battle of Britain
''Rowan's Battle of Britain'', sometimes known simply as ''Battle of Britain'', is a World War II era combat flight simulation game set during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Gameplay
The combat flight simulation has both RAF and opposing L ...
'', a 2000 video game
Other uses
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''Battle of Britain'' (film), a 1969 film by Guy Hamilton
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The Battle of Britain
''The Battle of Britain'' was the fourth of Frank Capra's ''Why We Fight'' series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment o ...
'', a 1943 propaganda film by Frank Capra
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Battle for Britain (''Private Eye''), a ''Private Eye'' comic strip
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Battle of Britain class
The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as ''Light Pacifics'' or informally as ''Spam Cans'', are air-smoothed 4-6-2 ''Pacific'' steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by its Chief Mechanical Engine ...
, a class steam locomotives formerly used on railways in southern England
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Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno or Battle of Britain, a 1993 boxing match
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Carl Froch vs. George Groves or Battle of Britain, a 2013 boxing match
See also
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Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain
The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain is the process which changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British to Germanic peoples, Germanic. The Germanic-speakers in Britain, themselves of diverse origins, ev ...
from the 5th to 7th centuries
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Caesar's invasions of Britain
In the course of his Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar invaded Great Britain, Britain twice: in 55 and 54 BC. On the first occasion Caesar took with him only two legions, and achieved little beyond a landing on the coast of Kent. The second invasion co ...
in 43 BC
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Invasion of England
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List of wars involving Britain
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Roman conquest of Britain
The Roman conquest of Britain refers to the conquest of the island of Britain by occupying Roman forces. It began in earnest in AD 43 under Emperor Claudius, and was largely completed in the southern half of Britain by 87 when the Staneg ...
Starting in 44 AD and ending in 96 AD
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