The 17th September - 86 years ago

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In the previous blog about Operation Sea Lion, the planned German invasion of mainland Britain, I wrote how to achieve their stated aims, the Luftwaffe would need full control of the British skies. The German navy, the Kriegsmarine would also need dominant control of the sea in order to allow the invasion barges filled with troops to safely make it across the channel. Britain had spent the summer of 1940 expecting an invasion. After Dunkirk, the German forces were massed on the channel coast and preparing to push forward. The had assembled heavy guns at Pas-de-Calais region in northern France,...