11/17/2023 Navy war college did the british still have a chance to win after france entered the war in 1778Read Now![]() We understood that we were being interviewed about the prospects of Operation Sealion, the putative German invasion of England in 1940 in other words, the Battle of Britain in the sense it was first used by Winston Churchill on 4 June 1940, when he was referring to the coming struggle for Britain’s survival, before it came to be associated solely with the air battle. However, this was not the subject of our interviews. Moreover, this victory was of enormous strategic, political, and psychological importance, for which Fighter Command deserves full credit. All three of us recognize that defeat of the Luftwaffe by the Royal Air Force’s Fighter Command was a critical factor in preventing the German armed forces from attempting an invasion. In fact, none of us argued that the Royal Navy and not Fighter Command ‘won the Battle of Britain’. ![]() The original History Today article, by a journalist, Brian James, had leaned very heavily on verbatim quotations from interviews with the three of us, and we were duly denounced as the villains of the piece, as stirring up controversy for its own sake, to gain publicity, or to sell books. Articles and leader columns appeared in the national press letters to editors hotly debated the merits of the case and there were items on television and radio. On the front cover of the magazine this was simplified to ‘Who Won the Battle of Britain’? This proved to be a silly season story par excellence. In August 2006 the British media seized on an article published in History Today that argued that ‘it was the navy, not the RAF, that prevented a German invasion in 1940’.
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