The Battle for Britain

Hitler had presumed that Britain would surrender at the same time as France but when it became clear the British under Prime Minister Churchill were prepared to fight to the death, he drafted a plan to invade Britain, called operation sealion but he soon realized that this would not be possible while Britain controlled the air and the sea. Thus the Germans began the battle of Britain where their air force engaged in combat against the British planes to try to weaken them enough so they couldn't intervene in an invasion, but the British air force had the upper hand in these engagements due to their invention radar and their planes were suited to dogfights, they inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans while suffering light ones themselves. Hitler decided that an invasion of Britain wouldn't be possible so German airplanes began bombing major British cities at night (to avoid British airplanes) in the hope that the British people would lose moral and sign a peace. This became known as the Blitz and went on from October 1940 to May 1941. The British built many bomb shelters and organized air patrols at night time which although had a hard time locating German bombers at first became more effective as the war went on. 

German Planes