Battle of France - Battle of Britain (was Fighter pilots' guts)

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Boandlgramer

i wonder, why people still believe, hitlers next serious target was great britain.
repeat , i said "serious target".

I think it was possibly those hundreds and thouands of Luftwaffe sorties being sent over Britain day after day from July 1940, the bombing of military and civilian targets right across the country and the thousands of deaths and injuries (just one example: my father's family lost their home in a raid in September 1940; four small children in the house next door were killed) that ensued. To the British people at the time it seemed completely serious - because by any realistic measure it WAS serious.

Remember that they had just seen Hitler's forces roll right across several countries using tactics that the Allies were largely unprepared for. Everyone was worrying about the next trick he might pull, Germany's weaknesses were no uppermost British minds at the time.