How The RAF Defeated The Luftwaffe On Eagle Day | Battle Of Britain | War Stories

Adlertag or Eagle Day was Herman Göring’s grand Luftwaffe operation to destroy RAF Fighter Command in Britain and pave the way for Operation Sea Lion and the German invasion to commence. But despite boasting to Hitler that he would have achieved the RAF’s destruction within days he was unable to beat them. But how were the RAF able to hold strong and push this formidable air force back?

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