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Hawker Hurricanes fly in a single
line formation above Britain

numbers and experience, with many of should be toppled-a factor that
its pilots having gained valuable flight Dowding also had to deal with among
experience in WWI. Britain's commanders in how to defend
This allowed Goring and his the country.
commanders to launch large raids on Despite their experience and
Britain-one of the most notable being a numbers, Germany failed to gain air
500-strong assault on 15 September superiority over Britain and by the end
1940-causing large damage to a wide of the Battle they had lost 1,152 aircraft
variety of areas and military buildings as and 1,144 crew, compared to Britain's
well as, by the end of the war, 43,000 losses ofl,o85 aircraft and 446 crew.
civilian deaths. Despite Goring's Retrospectively, this result was caused
leadership, his other commanders held by a single piece of state-of-the-art
differences of opinion in how the RAF technology: radar.
At Dowding's disposal was a

well-ordered yet numerically
inferior air force to that of the

Germans, with many pilots lacking
valuable experience

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