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Bombing campaigns are not measured in terms of "how many bombs were dropped" but rather how many tons of bombs were used. The Luftwaffe dropped about 45,000 tons of bombs during the Blitz. Some of this tonnage was used on other locations but London received the bulk of the bombs up to May 1941.
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BlakeThe German bombing of Britain is known as the Battle of Britain or, as it was know at the time, the Blitz (only in London though). Slightly different, though the two did overlap, the Battle of Britain was the attacks of the Luftwaffe against the RAF Sector Airfields which was subsequently changed to the night time attacks (The Blitz) against British cities. Had the Luftwaffe continued with the former it was possible, no more than that I admit, that they could have driven the RAF too far north to defend an invasion beach or beaches. Although the Germans caused great damage & loss of life in the Blitz it was not a method of war which was militarily successful (So why did the Allies pursue exactly the same tactic against Germany ?) & it was bound to fail. The damage caused by the Blitz in UK was nowhere near as great as the destruction caused later in the war in Germany. (or Japan for that matter) The distinction I am making was that the Battle of Britain, by definition a fight between fighter aircraft, was fought in daylight, the Blitz was principly in darkness.
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How did Hitlers choice to call off the bombing of Britain lead to the Allied success in the war?
What Hitler called off (in September 1940) was the planned German invasion of Britain. He did this because the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) had been unable to achieve supremacy in the skies above southern England. Heavy bombing of civilian targets in Britain was a feature of the period September 1940-January 1941. There were further heavy raids in May 1941 - after which much of the Luftwaffe was moved eastwards for use against the Soviet Union. Later in WW2 there were further raids on Britain and in 1944 the V1s and V2s. The fact that Britain continued to fight in 1940-41 meant that the war against Germany continued. IF Britain had fallen it's very hard to see how there could have been a D-Day or any Allied victory in Western Europe. Joncey
Who bombed first in world war 2 Britain or Germany?
The Nazis devasted Warsaw in September 1939 and Rotterdam in May 1940 before Britain starting bombing German cities.
What was the battle of blitz?
There was no 'battle of Blitz'- this is probably referring to the Battle of Britain, 10 July 1940 – 31 October 1940, the heaviest bombing of London and other UK cities by the Luftwaffe, and the regular battles between them and the RAF. The Blitz was a nickname for the bombing of London, an abbreviation of 'Blitzkrieg', German for Lightning War.
What was the name given to the air battles fought between Germany and the British over England during World War 2?
This probably refers to the 'battle of Britain' in 1940. The Battle of Britain was the attack by the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940 on the fighter aircraft defenses of Britain. Slowly but surely the Germans were winning this fight by attacking the sector airfields. Fortunately the Germans then changed to bombing cities, principally London, though Coventry Plymouth & Liverpool also suffered grieviously as did other towns & cities. This, in London particularly, was known as the Blitz. This lasted to the summer of 1941 when the Luftwaffe turned toward Russia. Another major series of air attacks was in 1944 with the attack by the V1 Doodlebug flying bombs launched from occupied France. These were able to be intercepted by aircraft & deflected. Subsequent V2 rockets were not interceptable.
What were the Tubes in which Londoners took shelter during the raids of 1940?
They took shelter in the London subway system.
