Battle o Breetain | |||||||
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Pairt o the Seicont Warld War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders an leaders | |||||||
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Units involved | |||||||
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Strenth | |||||||
1,963 serviceable aircraft [nb 5] | 2,550 serviceable aircraft. [nb 6][nb 7] | ||||||
Casualties an losses | |||||||
1,542 aircrew killt[11] 422 aircrew woundit[12] 1,744 aircraft destroyed[nb 8] |
2,585 aircrew killt an missin, 925 capturt, 735 woundit[14] 1,977 aircraft destroyed, 1,634 in combat an 343 non-combat[15] | ||||||
Aroond 90,000 ceevilian casualties, 40,000 o them fatal.[16] |
The Battle o Breetain (German: Luftschlacht um England, leeterally "The Air Battle for Ingland") wis a militar campaign o the Seicont Warld War, in that the Ryal Air Force (RAF) defendit the Unitit Kinrick (UK) against lairge-scale attacks bi Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.