Thanks to all who served with the RAF during the Battle of Britain. It wasn’t just fighter pilots who saved Britain from invasion!
Tag: Operation Sealion
Hitler’s Black Book – List of Most Wanted Brits in WW2
Brand new, free and exclusive to Forces War Records, a database containing the full list from Hitler’s Black Book of ‘enemies of the state, traitors and undesirables, marked for punishment or death’.
Sealion – What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940?
What could have happened had Hitler’s Operation Sealion been launched following the successful destruction of the RAF during the Battle of Britain
Secret Army: The Auxiliary Units, Britain’s final line of WW2 defence in case of invasion
Unlike most of Europe, Britain had time to make a contingency plan in case of a German invasion. If Operation Sealion had come off in September 1940, the government had a secret force ready to kick off the resistance straight away… but how effective cou