Battle
Open on the mapWWII: The Battle of Britain air offensive of the German Luftwaffe against the British RAF Fighter Command begins
10 Jul 1940 · 54.00° N, 2.00° W
What the records say
- When
- 10 Jul 1940
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 54.00° N, 2.00° W
- Description
- WWII: The Battle of Britain air offensive of the German Luftwaffe against the British RAF Fighter Command begins.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Battle of Britain.
5 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Luftschlacht um England setzt mit Angriffen der deutschen Luftwaffe auf Konvois im Ärmelkanal und küstennahe britische Marineeinrichtungen ein”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Первые крупные столкновения люфтваффе и ВВС Великобритании над Ла-Маншем”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “comienza la Batalla de Inglaterra”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “独空軍による英本土空襲開始(バトル・オブ・ブリテン)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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