the battle of britain

The battle of Britain

The war battle of Britain started in the mids of July. How the beginning of the battle of Britain started is they attacked air plane site and there defenses. In august day 25 through 28 year 1940 Britain stared to bomb Berlin. In September 17 1940 Hitler postpones the invasion of Britain. On 15 September now known as Battle of Britain Day the Luftwaffe launched two huge bombing raids on London. Believing that the RAF was close to a breaking point. The attacks were a repeat of their monumental and devastating attack eight days before. Smaller formations of German planes were also planned to attack Portland and Southampton. The Luftwaffe had introduced a significant change of tactics on 7 September. They had switched away from attacking RAF bases and radar stations to focus on bombing London.

Pedro was an 18-year-old a worker at a government factory when bomb raids flattened the factory in Fremont area on 24 and 26 September 1940.lots of my friends were killed. The sirens went and we just relaxed across to the shelter and had a game of cards for entertainment. Then we heard the airplane engines. I was the one nearest to the door so I looked out and I saw Swastikas so I ran and hid behind a shelf and I screamed take cover!!!. After every one took cover I just started to hear bombs dropping. After the planes left we were digging the dead bodies and clearing all the area.

About one 25% of all the workers were killed. Production was quickly moved to 28 other sites around Southampton as well as Reading, Hungerford, Newbury, Salisbury and Winchester. A bus depot near the area was one of seven factories where wings and fuselages were built. The Germans were flying over us every day. We could see what was happening in the skies over our head and how important it was to keep building the planes.so that kind of motivated all of us too work on planes even harder. The leaders were thinking of turning all the factories into spitfire. Readers of this newspaper have also contributed thousands of dollars towards a project to build a memorial to the aircraft.

We all worked as a team work to make air planes faster which they are called spitfire. All of us had some bad and hard moment’s very hard moments. But we all tried our best too work it out.one of my best friend his name was Eric died because a wing of a spitfire hit him and spread his body in half. My other friend called pancho was there in the moment when the wing hit Eric. Pancho then started to scream for help he felt really bad in that moment.

When the war ended I was the happiest person in the world because I survived the battle of Britain. I was very lucky because a lot of factory workers didn’t survive the battle of Britain. Almost half of the people we had died in the battle of Britain. When the war ended it was a huge relief knowing that I was lucky enough to be a survivor.as soon as a month passed I started to right my history and how it happened.