Summary: On the 18th of June 1940, Churchill stood in Parliament and gave a speech in which he stated that what General Weyland had called the Battle of France was over and that the Battle of Britain was about to begin. In the middle of this remarkable conflict was one Raymond Towers Holmes...<br> <br> Sir Winston Churchill<br> <br> <br> <br> Hermann Göring<br> <br> <br> <br> Preparations being made for the invasion of Britain<br> <br> <br> <br> Joseph Kennedy, the US Ambassador to Great Britain<br> <br> <br> <br> Adolf Hitler<br> <br> <br> <br> The Me 110<br> <br> <br> <br> The Supermarine Spitfire<br> <br> <br> <br> The Hawker Hurricane<br> <br> <br> <br> The Me 109<br> <br> <br> <br> Battle of Britain pilots<br> <br> <br> <br> The coverage of Chain Home<br> <br> <br> <br> Chain Home operators<br> <br> <br> <br> Arty Holmes in his fighter<br> <br> <br> <br> Dog fights over London during the Battle of Britain<br> <br> <br> <br> Dornier Do 17s<br> <br> <br> <br> The secret weapon flamethrower<br> <br> <br> <br> The Do17 without its tail plunges down towards Victoria Station<br> <br> <br> <br> Wreckage of the Do17 that Arty brought down<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to BiblioArchives, Bundesarchiv, the RAF, Wide World Photos, ROC, Adrian Pingstone, Imperial War Museum and the British Official Histories.
