[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Fighter Range and British Radar Deployment
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

Plus a special guest map from Michael Korda’s, “With Wings Like Eagles,” showing the air defenses of England and Wales, August 1940.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Korda devotes 21 pages to August 18 in “With Wings Like Eagles.” I can’t post an excerpt that long so I will just show how he begins the section:

“Neither Dowding nor anyone else could have guessed that the 18th would produce an air battle so intense and prolonged that at least one book has been written about this day alone (The Battle of Britain: The Hardest Day, by Alfred Price, Macdonalds and Jane’s Publishers, 1979).”