As a result, Hitler indefinitely postponed his planned invasion of Britain because he and his High Command understood that without control of the air, German losses in a seaborne and air invasion would have meant unacceptably high casualties and probable failure. The RAF, assisted by allied squadrons from other nations, defeated the might of a numerically far superior German Luftwaffe in an air battle that lasted (as officially defined) from July 10 to October 31 , 1940. The Allied victory in The Battle of Britain was a major turning point in World War Two. It seems to me that this all, therefore, bestows a great responsibility on Jewish historians to dispel these racist myths and prove beyond any doubt, through careful sourced research, that Jews in Britain and other nations, have always participated in the defense of the countries wherever they have lived, and always out of proportion to their numbers in the general population. At the same time, this lends understated credibility to the comments of the likes of author Roald Dahl, who alleged he “never saw a Jew in the front line.” The genteel anti-Semitism of the British “establishment” – and that of other western societies – has always been subtly keen, at best, to play down, and at worst to ignore completely, any Jewish contribution. No attempt has ever been made to describe the part played by Jewish aircrews in the Battle of Britain during that distant, hot summer of 1940. World War II: Table of Contents| Jewish American Soldiers| D-Day
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