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Although not an Army battle it was one of the defining moments in the country's history. The British Expeditionary Force had been pushed back to mainland Britain, there was no sign of the USA joining the war and the German Forces were planning invasion. It was just the Fighter Squadrons of the RAF that stood between the Luftwaffe getting domination of the skies over Southern England, something needed for a sucessful invasion to be possible. The RAF inflicted such high losses on the Luftwaffe that they shifted their main efforts from daytime to night bombing and as such never got control of the sky and all invasion plans were effectivly shelved. Hitler decided to concentrate on the East and Britain was given respite until the US joined the war and plans could be made to invade Europe.