After the evacuation of Allied forces at Dunkirk the RAF and Luftwaffe regrouped themselves for the inevitable confrontation. Britain was hurriedly producing Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft, a decision that was vindicated it the weeks and months that followed. Hitler needed superiority in the sky's over the south east of England with Herman Goering's Luftwaffe. The German Luftwaffe began attacking shipping in the English Channel in July 1940, they also made raids night and day on Dover and it's harbour and other coastal towns.

The RAF were out number by 4 to 1 with their eight hundred planes, in just a few week the RAF had lost ninety fighters the Luftwaffe just over one hundred. Hitler was soon to change his tactics by targeting airfields and radar stations, as the attacks intensified the Luftwaffe went further inland attacking airfields loosing just under one hundred aircraft. 

The Luftwaffe continued its attacks on airfields, with an average of one thousand aircraft taking part. RAF fighter command were now suffering from very low morel which was eased by a few day's of bad weather, had the attacks continued the outcome might have been very different.

For reason still unknown Hitler stopped bombing the South of England and turned his attention to attacks on the capital London which continued until October he had failed to take out the RAF and abandoned his planed invasion of Britain. On the 12th of October Hitler ordered his invasion fleet dispersed, by the end of October the battle of Britain was over. The Luftwaffe's failure in the Battle of Britain weakened the credibility Herman Goering.

Never Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few (Sir Winston Churchill June 1940)