Besides the Royal Navy, Germany needed to defeat the Royal Air Force (RAF) and achieve air superiority for a seaborne invasion to occur.
Besides the Royal Navy, Germany needed to defeat the Royal Air Force (RAF) and achieve air superiority for a seaborne invasion to occur. On July 10th, 1940, the Battle of Britain began with raids on airfields and ports. Except the Luftwaffe faced the RAF – an organized force backed by the newly invented radar, an observer corps watching for raids and equally capable aircraft.