Battle Of Britain Video Ks2

After germany and hitler had conquered most of europe including france the only major country left to fight them was great britain.
Battle of britain video ks2. In the summer of 1940 germany was winning the war and the british army had been driven out of france by the german nazis. Living through the air raids bbc teach primary resources history ks2 children of world war two we meet alan and his grand daughter isabel. I put together some clips of the movie battle of britain and some old clips of dogfights. The battle of britain was an important battle in world war ii.
This was where the battle of britain was fought in the skies over southern britain against the german air force the luftwaffe. Their ultimate failure was one of the turning points of world war two and prevented germany from invading britain. The germans first tried to destroy british air fields so the raf. Germany wanted to invade great britain but first they needed to destroy great britain s royal air force.