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15 air battle, Hitler cancelled the planned invasion. This allowed the Allies to regroup and, much to the surprise of the Germans, send out hundreds of new fighter planes to counter the enemy aerial armadas. However, the Germans switched from bombing airfields to bombing London. Pilots were tiring out from the continued flying, while the Allies lost flyers faster than they could replace them.
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Meanwhile, it didn’t seem as if the Allies could withstand the German onslaught, he continued. did not think his pilots were ready.ĭuring the Battle of Britain, the average life expectancy of an Allied pilot was four weeks. Of the 2,300 British airmen and the 574 allied pilots … 117 were Canadians,” Bouchard said, noting the RCAF squadron commander - from Rosthern, Sask. “For many Canadian crewmen, the Battle of Britain was baptism by fire. It was up to the UK and its allies to hold off the German invasion. The odds appeared insurmountable, while the results of the pilots’ failure would be unbearable, he continued. “For the first time in history, an entire nation would be protected by air power alone.” 19 to honour the 81st anniversary of the battle. Jonathan Bouchard, Wing Commander of 15 Wing Air Base, during a ceremony on Sept. With Allied troops pushed off the European continent entirely, only a few hundred fighter pilots stood in the way of Hitler’s massive air attack on England,” said Col. “Winston Churchill’s important words foreshadowed what would become one of the most important battles of the Second World War. More than 100 Canadians from the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) participated, with 23 dying during the campaign, including Pilot Officer C.R. 31, 1940, the offensive saw Nazi Germany attempt to eliminate the Royal Air Force as a preamble to invading Great Britain. That “finest hour” came quickly, as the Nazi war machine began the first major military campaign of that war fought entirely by air forces. “Let us, therefore, brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’” Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war …. “The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin … ,” Churchill told the House of Commons on June 18, 1940. The situation looked grim for the United Kingdom and her allies - including Canada - which prompted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to assess the upcoming peril. After France fell to the Germans in June 1940 during the Second World War, the Nazis turned their attention to Great Britain and began preparations to invade the island nation.