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{{r|Ju-88 (bomber)}} | {{r|Ju-88 (bomber)}} | ||
{{r|Albert Kesselring}} | {{r|Albert Kesselring}} | ||
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{{r|Me-110}} | {{r|Me-110 (fighter)}} | ||
{{r|Supermarine Spitfire}} | {{r|Supermarine Spitfire}} | ||
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- See also changes related to Battle of Britain, or pages that link to Battle of Britain or to this page or whose text contains "Battle of Britain".
Parent topics
- Integrated air defense system [r]: An air defense that combines radar, anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air missiles, and fighter aircraft, presenting multiple layers of defense under systematic command and control [e]
- Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Suppression of enemy air defense [r]: Military actions taken to reduce the effectiveness, or destroy, the radars, radio and other communications links, surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft artillery, fighter aircraft and their airbases and command posts of air defense systems [e]
Subtopics
- Bristol Blenheim [r]: British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company that was used extensively in the early days of the Second World War. [e]
- Chain Home [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hugh Dowding [r]: Commander of Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain [e]
- Keith Park [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Douglas Bader [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Boulton-Paul Defiant [r]: A British fighter aircraft using a novel turret design, not effective in its original air combat role but was later adapted to be successful in other missions [e]
- Anti-aircraft artillery [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Command and control [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. [e]
- Winston Churchill [r]: British Prime Minister and war leader during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945; second term from 1951 to 1955. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a historian. [e]
- Do-17 (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fighter aircraft [r]: Military aircraft which are essentially used in air-to-air combat. [e]
- Hermann Goering [r]: prominent Nazi politician, effectively #2 in status for most of the war and Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during WW II. Sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) but committed suicide shortly before execution [e]
- Hawker Hurricane [r]: The first monoplane fighter in British service, this aircraft, as opposed to the better-known Supermarine Spitfire, was the main killer of German bombers in the Battle of Britain; it moved afterwards to ground attack roles [e]
- R.V. Jones [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ju-87 (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ju-88 (bomber) [r]: A German medium bomber of the Second World War, of quite high performance and survivability [e]
- Albert Kesselring [r]: A senior commander of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. [e]
- Me-109 (fighter) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Me-110 (fighter) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Supermarine Spitfire [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Radar [r]: Add brief definition or description