Battle of Britain

In the Battle of Britain, the Auxiliary Air Force and the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserves provided a huge number of pilots to fight off German raids.

The Right Way to Cut Defense Spending 2010

Sir Henry Tizard was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, a scientist as well as a public servant, and a true patriot, who may be said without exaggeration to have helped save his country and civilization: without his work in ensuring that radar was installed around the coastline by 1940, the Battle of Britain might have been lost.

Box 2009

For example, Germany lost the Battle of Britain and couldn't even defeat Russia in WW II, so what makes you think it would have conquered Europe?

Anarchists Anthropomorphizing Government, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over: the Battle of Britain is about to begin.

"Defence of the Realm" Lionheart 2007

The book lays out in excellent detail some things which are usually passed over in other histories mainly Churchill's time as PM between the fall of France and the Battle of Britain.

The Duel The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler by John Lukacs jmnlman 2006

But while the Battle of Britain is long over, the world is still teeming with skirmishes, underlined by last year's increase in defense spending by both the U.S. and U.K. The consequence for London-based BAE has been a 16% hike in operating profits to $1.57 billion.

Airbus Helps Profit Soar For Olver's BAE Systems 2006

But while the Battle of Britain is long over, the world is still teeming with skirmishes, underlined by last year's increase in defense spending by both the U.S. and the U.K. The consequence for London-based BAE has been a 16% hike in operating profits to $1.57 billion.

U.K. Faces Of The Week, Feb. 20-24, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006

The book lays out in excellent detail some things which are usually passed over in other histories mainly Churchill's time as PM between the fall of France and the Battle of Britain.

Archive 2006-08-01 jmnlman 2006

The Battle of Britain will take its place as another of your deathless traditions.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

By that time the Battle of Britain was well under way.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974