Monday morning I laid a wreath at the #Dagenham Heathway memorial to mark the 85th anniversary of #battleofbritainday. Our freedoms are built on the sacrifices of those brave few who stood against tyranny to defend our skies in 1940. #lestweforget 🇬🇧
Military History Now
@MilHistNow
·
18h
On this day in 1940, Germany's Luftwaffe throws more than a thousand planes at London in a massive effort to finally break British resistance and take control of the skies above Southern England. The RAF withstands the onslaught. #BattleOfBritainDay
A repost to mark #BattleOfBritainDay
Until Tom Neil's death in 2018 he was the UK's highest scoring living fighter ace. Less than 5% of pilots shot down 5 or more planes in WW2. He shot down 14. Here is the entry from his logbook for today in 1940 #BattleOfBritainDay
Today in 1940 the Germans launched a massive attack on London.
1500 planes clashed & the RAF inflicted big losses.
It forced Hitler to delay any invasion plans indefinitely.
It is remembered as #BattleofBritainDay
A black and white gouache image shows a Spitfire fighter plane in flight above clouds. In the background are swirling contrails, and a bomber plane falls trailing smoke.
'Victory above the Clouds' by G O Eldridge.
#BattleOfBritainDay
#BattleOfBritain85
IWM ART LD 987
‘Never in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many, to so few’ #BattleofBritainDay #PerArduaAdAstra
Great to see you on Bluesky, @taitster.bsky.social ! Thank you so much for your kind words. It was a tremendous honour to give the speeches for the Defence Academy's Battle of Britain Dinner Night at Shrivenham - may we drink to #TheFew on this #BattleOfBritainDay! 🥃
An oil painting depicting an imagined scene of the Battle of Britain.
One for #BattleOfBritainDay - Paul Nash's 1941 oil painting 'Battle of Britain', now on display at #IWMLondon.
As a fleet of sinister black bombers approach, Royal Air Force fighters rise to meet them & a dogfight leaves a sweeping tangle of contrails. #BattleOfBritain85
Painting: IWM ART LD 1550
Today is the 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain and we paused to remember #TheFew at a superb Dinner Night last week. Awesomely evocative speech from @spitfirefilly.bsky.social really made the night. Reminded us how much we owe them all.
#BoB85 #BattleofBritainDay #RAF
Infographic produced by the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund showing the nationalities of the 2937 aircrew who took part in the Battle of Britain.
But we never forget those who stood with us in those dark days, when Britain stood 'alone' #History #WW2 #BattleofBritainDay
Poster showing RAF aircrew below the Churchill quote "Never was so much owed by so many to so few"
On #BattleofBritainDay we rightly remember the bravery and sacrifice of "The Few". #History #WW2
The story of the most successful WWII squadron that downed 126 enemy aircraft in 42 days... 🇵🇱
#BattleOfBritainDay
worldwarwings.com/wwii-squadro...
A pair of World War 2 planes flying in formation.
A recruitment poster of a plane attacking another plane with text saying "On To Victory" and "Air Crews Wanted urgently"
Image of a Spitfire from World War 2 showing its distinctive shape.
A poster of men in flight gear running with the words "Forward To Victory"
Remember the Few.
#BattleOfBritainDay #BattleOfBritain
🧵 #onthisday in 1940, on what would become known as #battleofbritainday the Luftwaffe launch an attack in a bid to finally overcome the RAF and win air superiority.
London would be attacked twice, first at 11:00am when two waves of aircraft totalling around 250 1/5
'Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire is a superbly crafted biography that will delight aviation enthusiasts and the uninitiated alike' Aspects of History
aspectsofhistory.com/book_reviews...
#NonFiction #History #Biography #Spitfire #WW2 #BattleOfBritain #BattleOfBritainDay #Aviation #Mitchell
"What other reserves have we?"
"There are none."
-- Churchill and Sir Keith Park, 15 September 1940.
Though the daytime air battle would rage on for another month and a half, this was the day that broke Nazi resolve; Sea Lion would never happen, and the Sceptre'd Isle would remain a platform […]
On #BattleofBritainDay, we remember 'the Few' who defended Britain from the air in 1940. Find out how to research Battle of Britain pilots with our guide:
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
Today is #battleofbritainday 🇬🇧 when we remember The One: Dowding, The Few: Aircrew, The Many: Those on the Ground 🛩
We are lucky to have many wonderful #museums to visit 🏛
• Bawdsey Radar #museum
• IWM Duxford
• @rafmuseum.bsky.social
• bentleyprioymuseum.org.uk
• Battle of Britain Bunker
With today being #BattleOfBritainDay, do tune in to Hugo Rifkind's Times Radio show at 12:30 BST. I will be discussing the Luftwaffe's experience during the campaign and why memories of the #BattleOfBritain & #TheFew need to be preserved for posterity
www.thetimes.com/radio/live
To mark #BattleOfBritainDay, Paul Beaver (author of Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire) speaks to @thesun.co.uk about how two men created the #Spitfire from a quiet home in Southampton by sketching designs on a tablecloth.
Read more:
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3668546...
#History #WW2 #BattleOfBritain
For #BattleOfBritainDay, I found this graphic, reminding us how international the RAF pilots who served in the conflict were.
#BattleofBritainDay Exhaustion on the face of BoB pilot Squadron Leader B.J.E. "Sandy" Lane, 1940. MIA on 13 December 1942. #WW2 #HISTORY
15. Sep: Der Battle of #Britain Day gedenkt heute der #Luftschlacht um #England zwischen 1940 und 1941. https://www.kleiner-kalender.de/106389 #BattleOfBritainDay
During his interrogation by Soviet Forces one of Hitler’s top Officers Field Marshall Von Rundstedt was asked what was the most important Battle that changed the war in his view. He said it was their failure to defeat the RAF in 1940. We know it as the Battle of Britain. #BattleOfBritainDay
Lt. Otto Bechtle of KG 2 on his unit's #BattleOfBritainDay losses:
'6 planes went & 2 came back. That evening, the whole Gruppe was nearly demoralised. A drunken party, weeping for comrades. The survivors sang: “the steel wings are flashing; the Tommy has given us a hiding.”'
