Название: Battle of Britain 1940: The Luftwaffe’s "Eagle Attack" (Osprey Air Campaign 1)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2018
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 17 Mb
Язык: English
In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command, and enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn. It was a new type of air warfare: the first ever offensive counter-air campaign against an integrated air defence system. Powerful, combat-proven and previously all-conquering, the German air force had the means to win the Battle of Britain. Yet it did not.