The main assault ("Operation Eagle Attack") began on 13th August 1940, with the aim of completely destroying the RAF. The Luftwaffe lost 80 fighters and over 120 bombers, with 200 airmen killed and 277 missing. The RAF also suffered heavy losses at the hand of the Luftwaffe, with 115 fighters lost and another 42 damaged, with 71 pilots killed the Royal Navy also suffered badly with 35 merchant ships and 4 destroyers sunk. The Channel Battle continued until the 11 August, the RAF was unable to offer sufficient protection to ships in the channel, and the Royal navy was forced to stop convoys and close the channel to shipping. This early stage of the battle was known as "Kanalkampf" or "Channel Battle" it consisted of German dive-bomber attacks on ships in the channel. The Battle of Britain officially began on 10th July 1940, with German bombing attacks on British shipping convoys (although there had been scattered small scale probing attacks, and reconnaissance since the fall of France on 26th June). It was agreed that Göring would start a preliminary air offensive, which would not commit the other services to an invasion until mid-September. Air Marshal Hermann Göring was confident that he could drive the RAF out of the sky and achieve air superiority over the channel in 14 to 28 days, allowing the Luftwaffe to deal with the Royal Navy should they intervene with the invasion. The German admirals had no confidence that their inferior naval strength could take on the Royal Navy and so insisted that the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) take on the job. Even when Churchill made Britain's determination to continue fighting clear Hitler still believed Britain would be sign a peace deal, only on July 2nd did he concede an invasion may be necessary and ordered his Generals to consider options for invasion.Īn invasion could only be successful if the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force could be put out of action, giving German supremacy over the English Channel. Hitler had hoped that following the Fall of France Britain would be prepared to sign a peace agreement on favourable terms, avoiding the need for an invasion. Before the invasion, and even after the fall, of France, Germany had made no planes to invade Britain. Following the Fall of France in June 1940, Britain was left with no allies in Europe. The map is set in the southeast of Britain, part of the Battle of Britain was thought of the Summer and Autumn of 1940. In Update 1.59 "Flaming Arrows" the Dover Strait map was added, it reused England part of this map but was extended east and south (to a size of 128 km x 128 km), so it include the north of France and more of the channel in the playable area. RAF Lympne is located 21 km west of Dover, it has two grass runways, one 1,100 m long (1,300 m in real life), the other 700 m long in game the runways are paved, in real life they were grass. RAF Hawkinge is located 11 km west of Dover it has two grass runways, one 1,100 m long, the other 800 m long. ![]() It is significantly larger than RAF Hawkinge and RAF Lympne, with a single 3,300 m paved runway (2,700 m in real life), and substantially more hangars and other building on the base. The largest, RAF Manston, is located in the north of the map on the Isle of Thanet. There are a three RAF bases (RAF Manston, RAF Hawkinge, and RAF Lympne) modelled in their real life locations. ![]() Further east Swingate transmitting station, one of Britain's "Chain Home" early warning radar installations, used to detect German aircraft crossing the channel has been recreated (albeit with only three of its original four towers). Dover Castle has been recreated reasonably accurately on the cliffs to the east of the town, overlooking the port. The port is a reasonably accurate (although slightly scaled down) recreation of the real life port. One of the most prominent landmarks on the map is the Port of Dover, and the surrounding area. The map stretches as far west as the town of Rye in East Sussex, and as north as Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey. Although the details of the map are not completely accurate in some areas, dimensionally the map is a 1:1 scale recreation of the southeast corner of Britain. It is based on the southeast coast of England, containing just under half of the county of Kent, the Strait of Dover, and a small part of France (in the southeast corner of the map, usually well outside the playable area).
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