How did the British defend themselves during the battle of Britain?

Answer 1

The British were much more committed and had more strength than the Germans.

Second Answer: The Brits of the Royal Army Air Force fought the German Luftwaffe (air force) tooth and nail until they were nearly depleted. They were able to cripple the Luftwaffe. The ironic thing was that each nation thought the other had different amounts of airplanes and pilots. Both nations were wrong about each other. Hitler had to give up on Britain because he wanted to go after the oil in Russia and kill off undesirable people in the Soviet Union. He hated communists, Slavs, and Jews in Russia. So he had to give up his idea of invading the UK. He needed all his available military resources to conquer the USSR.

Answer 2

The Battle of Britain was an air battle that took place over many weeks in the summer of 1940 and was won entirely by the British. In fact, the US did not even enter the war for another year - and might not even have entered it then if the Japanese had not bombed Pearl Harbor.

Answer 3

With the help of dedicated pilots and an innovative device called radar.

Actually, German and British aircraft were evenly matched, and the Germans flew a formation that was tactically flexible and superior. Britain won because the Germans had limited time over target, fighting at the end of their flight radius, while the British engaged with practically full fuel tanks, and the British could recover their downed pilots and put them in replacement aircraft. Downed Germans became Prisoners of War. Radar allowed the British to anticipate Nazi movements, and engage them with local superiority. Seeing that the air battle was not producing an easy decisive victory, Hitler turned his attention to his invasion of Russia.

Answer 4

The Battle of Britain was a battle in the sky. Hitler was trying to take over all the RAF bases and eventually the whole country.

There were a few reasons why Britain managed to win the battle of Britain:

1. We built planes faster than we lost them,

2.For every plane of Britain's that the Germans shot down, Britain shot down 3 of theirs,

3.Britain had better radars,

4.If a British pilot was shot down and they bailed out, they could fight again the next day.

Advantages for Germany:

1. They had more planes to start with,

2. They had experienced pilots,

3.They were on the attacking side and not the defending,

Disadvantages for Britain:

1. They lost 1116 planes,

2. Germans started with more planes,

3. Casualties were high,

4. Pilots were becoming tired,

5.Pilots weren't as well trained,

Disadvantages for Germans:

1. If they bail out they become a prisoner,

2. They lost more planes,

3. High casualties,

4. They have to travel across from France to attack,

5. Britain intercepted the German plans,

6. The weather restricted the attacks,

Hope this helps ;)

Answer 5

The 'Battle of Britain' was primarily arial warfare. The Luftwaffe performed large-scale, sustained bombing of London, Liverpool and other industrial, especially port, cities. The Royal Air Force, assisted by anti-aircraft batteries on the ground, fought them off, and after great losses on both sides eventually succeeded to the point that Hitler had to abandon his plans to invade Britain. He had hoped the bombing would weaken Britain enough for an invasion to succeed. Alongside the bombing, often called "The Blitz" by Britons (from "Blitzkrieg" - 'Lighting War' - the Nazis' strongest tactic), was the Battle of the Atlantic, to hunt and destroy the German U-boat (submarine) fleet that was predating very seriously on the trans-Atlantic merchant-shipping supply convoys bringing munitions, vehicles, food, fuel etc to Britain.

Answer 6

they carried gas masks around with them . and also they had Anderson shelters in their backyards to go inside any time there was bombing in the area. there used to also be sirens on the streets to keep on guard/alert id there were any bombing near by

Answer 7

They actually had the greatest success in defending themselves from Germany's air assaults and land assaults. Lustwaffe failed several times during Germany's attempt to conquer Britain.

Answer 8

With fighter and bomber aircraft. The Battle of Britain was fought entirely in the skies over Southern England.