Why The Nazis Believed They Could Win the Battle of Britain

Why The Nazis Believed They Could Win the Battle of Britain

Yeah, it's not my usual kind of link, but the article provides an interesting recap of the long-term air battle ("their finest hour") which happened 75 years ago.

With slight variances in strategy, tactics and will, the Nazis might have overcome the RAF. Humanity can thank its collective lucky stars that the valiant and consistently overtaxed British aviators were able to stave off that threat. As Churchill noted, with typical eloquence, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

At risk was merely the world. As the struggle began, Churchill addressed his nation as follows:

"If we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"