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The Battle of Britain Part 4, Familiar Failures.

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After the Luftwaffe staff conference on August 19th, the decision was made to shift the focus of Luftwaffe attacks,

with the daylight efforts more directly targeting Southeast England, which were the areas

covered by 11 Group of Fighter Command. This would eventually lead to a very rough two weeks

for 11 Group and for Fighter Command in general would eventually lead to a very rough two weeks for Eleven Group and for

Fighter Command in general, with Churchill later describing these weeks as, quote,

During these crucial days, the Germans had continuously applied powerful forces against

the airfields in South and Southeast England. Their objective was to break down the day fighter

defense of the capital,

which they were impatient to attack, end quote. This could be considered the third phase of the

Battle of Britain. After the weeks of the Channel War, then the opening 10 days of broad attacks on the

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