Britain, Battle of
- a series of air battles fought over Britain (August-October 1940), in which the RAF successfully resisted raids by the numerically superior German air force. This led Hitler to abandon plans to invade Britain, although the Germans continued to bomb British cities by night for several months afterwards.不列颠战役（1940年8月到10月英国上空发生的一系列空战, 空战中, 英国皇家空军成功抵御了数量上占优势的德国空军发动的空袭, 迫使希特勒放弃了侵略英国的计划, 但随后的几个月中德军仍在夜间轰炸英国的城市）。