Why was Britain able to win the Battle of Britain

Furthermore, the R.A.F used many tactics to overcome the Luftwaffe. The tactics which proved quite successful was to dispatch individual squadron to intercept raid. The intension was to subject attacks to continual attacks by relative small numbers of aircrafts and try to break up tight formation of bombers.

The planes and pilots were fighting over home soil. This meant that the pilot could return to rest and then fight and also that aircrafts could be repaired. Additionally, it also enabled replacement pilots could be arranged easily and faster. Pilots from common wealth countries, and countries defeated in the war example France and Spain, took part and sometimes performed better than British pilots.

A few people can be said to have changed the course of history, but Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding is undoubting one of them. He was the architect of the most important military victories of modern times. He was a very well organised and tactful person. His system began with early detection of incoming raids by radar. Radar stations were code-named chain homes lined along the coast along with observer cops who would confirm the information and pass it on the filtering station. And yet no sooner was the battle won than he was inexplicably removed from office by his superior at the Air Ministry.

Britain had also captured an interception of German intelligence, the enigma decoding machine. Britain had captured this but had no clue of how helpful it was.

Britain had increased in the output of aviation factories. The production of planes and equipments increased so the losses could be recovered and planes were easily ready just in case. Britain had made one mistake that can be seen as a positive point that, was that Britain had overestimated the power, strength and competence of Germany.  Britain prepared so well that Germany was not able to stand a chance.

The Germans were also a reason why we won and why they lost. A number of reasons being their amateurish invasion plan. The Germans considered the channel as a wide river crossing. They reckoned that if they had complete control of the skies it wouldn’t take them long to cross the channel.

Moreover, the German had no plan. Goering (commander in chief) had no plan. He had no use of the latest technology and believed in old warrior ethos. Goering was a poor leader as he had no set tactic or visual targets. Goering kept changing bombing target. From 10th July to 7th August the Germans attacked the costal shipping and vital inland target. During this attack the Germans lost more planes than expected.

Leaving this undone they moved on. On the 8th August to 23rd August the Germans attacked airfields to try and destroy planes and buildings. But the Germans weren’t able to destroy radar stations or its system. Next, from the 24th to 6th September the attacks moved to factories and military targets to try and lessen Britain’s ability to fight. Injudiciously, from 7th September to 30th September the attacks moved to the south in readings for invasion and then to night bombing of cities in early September.  These changes of tactics were the weaknesses of the German plan. The attacks on many were left unfinished and the bombers never finished the jobs.

The Germans made one huge mistake, which probably was the result of them loosing the war, which was that they underestimated the strength and competence of Britain.

“Operation Sealion” was cancelled on 17th September giving us our victory and the Germans their first defeat. Hitler turned his attention to the Soviet Union.

The planning was the reason why we won the battle of Britain. However without Dowding’s strategies they wouldn’t have succeeded. “Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few”. The pilots paid all their attention and efforts into winning this war.

In addition, the radar technology system was a huge advantage to Britain and may be one piece of technology that is still being improved and used through out the world. It was may be a piece of technology without which winning the war in my opinion was impossible.