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Operation Sealion | |||||||||
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Part of the European War of 1940 | |||||||||
Original German plans before the Meeting at Hendaye. | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
United Kingdom Ireland Canada |
Germany Italy Spain Portugal | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Hugh Dowding Keith Park T. Leigh-Mallory Quintin Brand Richard Saul L. Samuel Breadner |
Hermann Göring Albert Kesselring Hugo Sperrle Hans-Jürgen Stumpff R. C. Fougier | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
1,963 serviceable aircraft | 2,550 serviceable aircraft. | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
544 aircrew (RAF Fighter Command), 718 (RAF Bomber Command), 280 (RAF Coastal Command) killed 422 aircrew wounded 1,744 aircraft destroyed |
2,585 aircrew killed and missing, 925 captured, 735 wounded 1,977 aircraft destroyed, 1,634 in combat and 343 non-combat | ||||||||
Around 90,000 civilian casualties, 40,000 of them fatal. |