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It is
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believed
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had the Germans succeeded
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their aim of destroying the RAF, they would have been able to invade Britain
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easily. This was, after all, at a time when the country was the only European
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resisting Nazi Germany, even though she
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enjoy massive support from
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Commonwealth partners.
A plan to use the German Air Force as the prelude
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the invasion of the UK had been discussed in 1939, and was at first rejected.
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, in view of the strength of the Royal Navy, the Germans did
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decide they had to
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the RAF first. They had won convincingly in the Polish campaign in 1939 and the Scandinavian and French campaigns in 1940, but they were now up
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a well-organized air defense system, and things were going to be more
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for them.
The British,
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the other hand, over-estimated German strength and
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. This was worrying, but not something that would lose them the battle, and they also had a new
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—radar to help direct the fighters to
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attacking German aircraft.
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, the British were starting to get
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from intercepting German communications, having
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the Enigma code system.