The Blitz

The Blitz
Pairt o the Wastren Front o Warld War II
Date 7 September 1940 – 11 Mey 1941 (1940-09-07 – 1941-05-11) (8 months, 5 days) Location Unitit Kinrick Result German strategic failyie
Belligerents
Unitit Kinrick	Germany
Commanders an leaders
Winston Churchill Hugh Dowding Frederick Pile Owen Tudor Boyd Sir Leslie Gossage	Adolf Hitler Hermann Göring Hugo Sperrle Albert Kesselring Hans Jeschonnek
Casualties an losses
~40,000[1]–43,000 ceevilians deid,[2] ~46,000 injured feegurs for woundit possibly as heich as 139,000[2]	Unkenr 3,363 aircrew 2,265 aircraft (Simmer 1940 – Mey 1941)[3]

The Blitz wis a German bombin offensive against Breetain in 1940 an 1941, in the Seicont Warld War. The term wis first uised bi the Breetish press as an abbreviation o Blitzkrieg (lichtnin war).

References

Soorces

• Hough, Richard an Denis Richards. The Battle of Britain. Pen & Sword. 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-657-3
• —— (2010). The Luftwaffe: A Study in Air Power, 1933–1945. Classic Publications. ISBN 978-1-906537-18-0CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Coordinates: 51°30′N 0°07′W / 51.50°N 0.12°W / 51.50; -0.12